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  • Access to world-class knowledge, research, and expertise in academia
  • Ability to reach new audiences e.g. increased community engagement, generate significant cultural and economic outcomes, schools across the region
  • Enhanced social, cultural and economic outcomes through reaching 29 schools and over 2200 children and young people across the region
  • Increased the number of students working on Tackling the Blues to offer the programme to more schools
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Benefits to higher education institutions
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Benefits to higher education students
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Benefits to children and young people, schools and their communities

Tackling the Blues

Tackling the Blues, an award-winning sport and arts-based education programme targeting young people aged 6-16 who are experiencing, or are at risk of, developing mental illness.