Support Parent Mental Health Day 2025 with stem4
stem4, the UK’s leading digital mental health charity, is proud to be the founder of Parent Mental Health Day (PMHD), launched in 2022. This annual campaign promotes awareness of the critical link between parents’ mental health and family wellbeing. This year, with the #ScreenSmartParenting theme, stem4 is providing resources and training to help families foster healthy digital habits and support youth mental health. Join us on the 30th of January 2025 in creating supportive environments where young people can thrive, both online and offline.
The theme of #ScreenSmartParenting was chosen to address the growing concerns among parents and carers about the impact of digital technology on their families’ wellbeing.
Our 2025 campaign offers vital tools and training designed to help families establish healthier screen habits, manage online stress, and create positive digital environments for young people. Together, we can ensure that the digital world supports, rather than hinders, the mental health and development of children and young people.
Parents’ and Carers’ Mental Health Resources
The digital age is here to stay. In an era where digital interactions define much of our lives, the challenge of promoting positive mental health has never been more critical.
As a parent, carer or professional supporting young people you have a unique responsibility – and a great opportunity – to empower the next generation with the resilience and support they need to thrive online and beyond.
Updated regularly, stem4’s training delivered by expert clinicians helps you to understand the ever changing online world, leverage its benefits and manage the potential harms. Visit training.stem4.org.uk to learn more.
Combined Minds is an app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Dr. Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, to help families and friends support young people with their mental health.
When a child or young person has a diagnosed mental health condition, families and friends want to support them in the best way but also know when to step back.
The Combined Minds app helps families and friends to find ways to provide the right environment to help the individuals they support affect their own change. As important influencers in the lives of young people, this provides positive impact on their mental health.
There are no doubt a number of challenges your children will face as they negotiate life. Helping them develop their resilience to navigate these challenges is an important task of parenting. Whilst resilience might be a trait in some, for the most part resilience is learnt.
Click here for some tips from Dr. Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, for parents to help young people manage stress, uncertainty and upset, learn to problem solve, manage friendships, and get the best of themselves.
Below are some further resources you might like to consider:
- Your doctor/G.P.
- Mind
- Young Minds: Parents Helpline
- Call for free on 0808 802 5544 from 9:30am – 4pm, Monday – Friday.
- KOOTH (online counselling for young people)
- Togetherall (online counselling for adults)
- Samaritans
- Cruse Bereavement Care
- Relate (relationship support)
- Gingerbread (single parent support)
- Parenting Mental Health
(Last updated November 2024)
stem4 Podcast – Episode 4 – Talking about Resilience
stem4’s mental health podcast, Understanding Teen Minds, aims to provide insight into the world of teenage mental health, looking at everything from signs and symptoms to early intervention.
In this podcast episode, stem4 founder and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Nihara, helps parents and carers understand what resilience is and the steps they can take to create it in both themselves and their families.
Interested in hearing more? Series two of the podcast is designed for the parents and carers of young people. You can find more episodes here and subscribe below.
Partner with stem4 to Support Youth Mental Health
We invite corporate partners to support Parent Mental Health Day (PMHD) and youth mental health by fundraising for stem4 or exploring ways to engage your employees in #ScreenSmartParenting initiatives. Visit stem4.org.uk/get-involved/corporate-fundraising/ or email corporate@stem4.org.uk to receive our Corporate Sponsorship Document, which outlines opportunities for you to get involved.
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