Welcome to Cycle Against Suicide’s evidence-based Post Primary Schools programme HEADSTRONG. This awareness programme teaches young people to ’Be Brave, to Reach out and to Speak up!’.
Our HEADSTRONG Programme supports mental health education, reduces stigma, promotes resilience and fosters a sense of belonging among young people.
Our HEADSTRONG Programme encourages young people into take care of their wellbeing, addressing day-to-day issues they have to deal with and sets out to help educate other students in their school.
Our HEADSTRONG programme centres on positive coping.
A full range of instructions and support material are available to ensure that HEADSTRONG delivery is simple and effective for educators and students.
Cycle Against Suicide’s HEADSTRONG programme aims to:
- Develop students’ confidence and competence to act in support of mental health and wellbeing.
- Examine the factors which impact on mental health and wellbeing and develop young people’s ability to act on behalf of personal and group health and wellbeing.
- Increase students’ self-awareness about the attitudes, values and beliefs that underpin health, personal lifestyle behaviours and choices.
- Foster students’ capacity to empathise with others through a greater understanding of different life experiences, motives and feelings of other individuals and groups
You can watch a brief video below, outlining the HEADSTRONG programme: