How Can We Create A Manifesto For Children's Mental Health Week?
Dr Lisa Cherry FRSA
Director, Trauma Informed Consultancy Services | Training | Speaking | Consultancy | Research |
So it's Children's Mental Health Week and I am plagued by the "something has to change" mantra whirling around my head. What we do today is the beginning of what will happen tomorrow. Prevention is not a luxury and never has been even though we are often led to believe that is the case.
I wrote on my FB page yesterday what my manifesto would look like and so many people commented that we should collectively DO something. Is it possible to create a vision, a manifesto, a mission that is collective?
My vision would include:
1. Seeing the adult that the child can become making prevention a necessity not a luxury
2. That love is not a dirty word in our work. Relationships are the most powerful therapeutic intervention known to us
3. That we are curious, we ask questions, we look at the story underneath the behaviour
4. That we fully understand that what happens in childhood forms the internal wiring of our minds and we therefore need to recover and heal when that has been negative and damaging rather than positive
5. That we do not let another election go by where the voices of children and young people are invisible, across every single party, rendering their vulnerability dangerous.....
For now. This is part of my vision. Today.
What would you add?
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