Your Voice Matters

Sometimes it’s easy to lose our voices. We can find it hard to make ourselves heard, or communicate effectively with those around us. In this collection we explore how to use your voice effectively – and hear the voices of others, too.

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Your voice matters

Your voice helps you stand up for yourself and helps others know who you are.

How easy is it to use your voice? Is it hard to be heard? How could it feel to have no voice at all? 

How does it feel when you are really listened to?

The theme for this Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘Your Voice Matters’. And it really does.

On this page, you’ll find some great resources, like:

  • Videos of young people sharing why their voice matters
  • Tips from our expert about how to be heard 
  • Blogs from people who had no voice but learned to be heard

 

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Watch:

Pupils from Handsworth Grammar on why Your Voice Matters

We made a short video with a group of brilliant young people at a boy’s school in Birmingham talking about why their voice matters. Huge thanks to the boys for getting stuck into the workshop. They came up with so many great ideas!

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A group of young people in school uniform at a Your Voice Matters workshop 2
A young man from Handsworth Grammar School writing about why his voice matters during a Kooth workshop
A group of young people posing for a selfie together

Activity:

Try our mental health group activity “If I Were In Your Shoes”. 

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Download the group activity "If I were in your shoes"

Watch:

Counsellor Aisha Gordon-Hiles on why it’s important for you to use your voice.

Aisha gives us inspiring insights into the power of using our voices, and tips on how to be an effective communicator.

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