How do you look after your mental wellbeing?

Looking after your mental health is just as important as looking after your physical health.
Having good mental wellbeing isn’t about never experiencing hard times - everybody goes through ups and downs in life. Having good mental health means you feel you have the resilience to be able to cope with the ups and downs of everyday life - whatever that brings.

Get Vocal recommends five steps that we can all take to look after our mental health, based on research into what helps improve our mental wellbeing.

5 Tips For Better Mental Health - Get VOCAL

Get Vocal

Watch how our residents take these steps as part of our Get Vocal campaign, in partnership with Blackpool Football Club Community Trust.

Meet Dorothy and Clifford

Meet Rob

Meet Sue and Emma

Mental Health Tips

Meet Chelsea

Blackpool Football Club Community Trust runs a regular social group known as Get Vocal to provide a safe space for men to come together and talk. Both sessions are drop in with no registration needed.

Drop in - Aspire Sports Hub, Garstang Road West, FY3 7JH

Tuesdays 6.30pm – 7.30pm (All men aged over 18)
Thursdays 7.30pm – 8.30pm (Armed forces community)

Phone - 01253 348 691

Email - info@bfcct.co.uk

Further information of support groups and services available can be found here

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.