Children's Mental Health Week

Send us Fan MailDenise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com   [email protected] Roberts AHC www.lesrobertshypnotherapy.co.uk [email protected]:10) Hi, hello. So how are you doing? (0:13) Alright, okay. So this week over in the UK, it is Children's Mental Health Week.(0:20) So I've been busy, busy, busy putting a lot of information out on social media (0:27) about what Children's Mental Health Week means over here (0:33) and also other things, you know, to help parents. (0:38) So there's always a theme behind the Mental Health Week (0:42) and this year it is, this is my place. (0:47) That's the theme.(0:50) So who are they aiming that title at? (0:55) Children. So this is nice. (0:57) Okay, but children in foster care, children in class? (1:01) I think it's everywhere.(1:03) It's to help children and also to raise awareness (1:08) that children need to feel safe no matter where they are. (1:13) Do you still have a lot of immigrant children? (1:16) I mean, obviously people have been immigrated to Britain as long as they've been there, (1:19) but there were so many refugees coming across. (1:24) Is that still a large number? (1:26) I don't know about whether there's a large number still coming in, (1:31) but we have a large number.(1:32) We've got quite a large refugee community here where I live (1:38) and I had the pleasure of working with some refugees and their families. (1:45) A couple of summers ago I went over to a place called Birkenhead, (1:51) which is over the River Mersey. (1:53) You'll be familiar with that.(1:54) I've heard of, yes. (1:57) And I had the pleasure of working one summer with refugees and their families, (2:04) predominantly with the children, but their parents, some of the parents were involved. (2:09) What were you working with? (2:11) Just helping them to understand emotions.(2:14) We did a lot of crafting, which the mums joined in, (2:18) and just to help because these are children. (2:21) A loss of place in their home lands. (2:24) Yeah.(2:25) Some of them must have had really pretty nerve-wracking. (2:27) Yes. (2:28) So these are children from well-born areas who have literally come over on the boats, (2:36) and it's quite strange.(2:38) They're absolutely gorgeous children, absolutely fantastic children, well-behaved. (2:43) Took an interest in everything that we're doing, really got stuck in. (2:47) But it was so funny because they've got, like, a foreign accent, (2:53) but mixed up with a Liverpudlian accent as well, so I found it quite amusing, actually.(2:59) But it was nice to work with them. (3:02) It was nice to... (3:04) How long had those children been there? (3:06) Because children pick up language so fast. (3:08) Not very long.(3:10) Some of them were in school already, (3:12) so hence, you know, their accents that they were picking up. (3:17) But not very long because they were still in hotels (3:22) because what this charity did, which is called Heart for Refugees, (3:28) and what this charity did was they raised money to help them, (3:33) and they had a community centre, like a church hall, (3:36) and the families used to come and cook because they couldn't cook in the hotels. (3:44) So they'd get food vouchers or they'd get money for food or however it worked.(3:48) Right, but that must have been really good because for a lot of people, (3:51) that's part of taking care of your kids, right? (3:54) Cooking for them, feeding them. (3:56) But it was nice, you know. (3:58) Do you know what was really nice, Denise, is to see different countries, (4:02) different cultures, different beliefs and everything all coming together (4:07) just to help each other.(4:09) It was lovely. (4:09) Yeah. (4:10) It was really lovely.(4:11) And of course, I got to taste some of the food, you know, as well. (4:14) That's also nice, isn't it? (4:17) Yeah. (4:18) But we have, here in St Helens where I live, we have