Early awareness and intervention are essential in combating the rise of mental health problems and supporting the talent, enthusiasm, and potential of children and young people. The first step in helping manage this is to provide them with tools to learn to manage their stress, to build emotional resilience and to make changes to the factors that affect them negatively as well as provide effective support systems around them – families, schools, healthcare. stem4 continuously and valiantly endeavours to focus on these areas of need.