• Partners
    • Everton in the Community
    • Tate Liverpool
  • Research and Impact
    • Project Summary
  • Students
    • Empowering students to become mental health champions
  • Toolkit
    • About this Toolkit
      • Introduction
      • What is Tackling the Blues
      • The Tackling the Blues partners
      • How does Tackling the Blues align with the knowledge exchange framework
    • Tackling the Blues Student Mentors
      • Overview
      • Mentor journey
      • Preparing Students
      • Student Mentor (sport and mental health) strand
      • Support Mentor (sport and mental health strand)
      • Student Mentor (arts and mental health strand)
      • Support Mentor (arts and mental health strand)
    • Knowledge Exchange
      • What are the benefits of a knowledge exchange focussed partnership
      • Wider knowledge exchange engagement
      • Developing a knowledge exchange focused partnership
      • Researching and evidencing a knowledge exchange project
      • Benefits for the organisations
      • Benefits to higher education institutions
      • Benefits to higher education students
      • Benefits to children and young people, schools and their communities
    • Key considerations for building your own KE partnership
    • Contact us
  • Case Studies
    • Mental Health Awareness Week- Charlie Mason
    • Joe Lynskey
    • Michael Quinn
    • Olivia Izzo
    • Tom O’Brien
    • Jason Crosswaite
    • Matthew Cunliffe
    • Jack Mullineux
    • Jamie Legge
  • The Team

Tackling the Blues

Category: Everton in the Community

  • Edge Hill student highlights impact of expanding child mental health programme

    An Edge Hill student is highlighting the profound impact of award-winning child mental health programme Tackling the Blues as it gets set to expand. 

    December 2, 2021
  • Tackling the Blues launches new bitesize mental health programme

    Tackling the Blues, an award-winning sport and arts-based education programme, has launched a series of online bitesize lessons to help teachers support children and young people’s mental health during lockdown.

    March 26, 2021
  • Performer turned mentor wants mental health to take centre stage in schools

    A performer who is training as a psychotherapist at Edge Hill is using her creative talents to encourage children and young people to open up about their mental health through the arts.

    February 3, 2021
  • Tackling the Blues welcomes six new recruits as part of expansion programme

    Award-winning mental health programme Tackling the Blues has appointed six new recruits to grow activities at a time when mental health has never been more important.

    November 6, 2020
  • USM Tackling the Blues campaign shortlisted for UK Content Awards

    A children’s mental health awareness campaign which saw pupils’ drawings of their Blues heroes take centre stage at a Goodison Park matchday has been shortlisted for a national award.

    September 16, 2020
  • Edge Hill and Everton mental health partnership shortlisted for major award

    An Edge Hill and Everton FC mental health partnership programme has been shortlisted in the 2020 Sports Business Awards.

    June 9, 2020
  • Funding boost for University’s mental health activities with Everton and Tate

    A mental health awareness programme developed by Edge Hill University and Everton in the Community has been awarded half a million pounds in recognition of the vital impact it has on the student experience.

    April 20, 2020
  • Edge Hill University mental health partnership welcomes Duke of Cambridge

    Edge Hill University staff joined partners Everton in the Community to welcome The Duke of Cambridge to Liverpool today as he visited one of the charity’s mental health campaigns.

    January 30, 2020
  • Schoolchildren put Everton FC players in the picture to promote positive mental health

    Portraits of Everton FC players created by schoolchildren will be shown on stadium screens, helping to raise awareness of the importance of positive mental health among young people.

    January 20, 2020
  • Masters graduate champions young peoples’ success

    Graduating with a merit, 31-year-old Eddie Owen hasn’t let a turbulent 18 months after being diagnosed with epilepsy deter him from helping other young people succeed.

    December 13, 2019

Tackling the Blues

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