Young school students having certain mental cases refuse to receive help from their peers. Referring to “Peer Support for Mental Health and Wellbeing Pilots", young people are showing more interest in the position of a peer mentor.
An initiative was taken from the side of the government through Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, in 100 schools across the UK, with an aim to improve social mobility through education.
The report states that:
- Many schools admit that they cannot offer enough support to youth below the threshold of clinical care.
- Many scholars weren’t showing openness to participate, because they needed to feel more secure to choose their peer mentors.
- The program usually could work in those schools, where the young students were able to spread positive outcomes about their experiences and/or awareness reached a critical mass.
- Supervision is a necessity to achieve the goals of the peer-mentoring program. But organisations are facing some challenges to maintain the supervision in schools’ schedules in the long term, and regarding the capacity of schools to provide the needed peer support.
Participants in the program as mentors and mentees showed positive feedbacks although there wasn’t significant improvements in social and emotional wellbeing.
