Aaron Lennon and Ben Mee helped launch Burnley FC in the Community’s Schools’ Mental Wellbeing Project at Shuttleworth College in Padiham recently.
The Clarets duo are ambassadors of the new project, which has already placed seven Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) into five Burnley secondary schools and two Padiham secondary schools.
The borough-wide initiative has been implemented in response to the increasing number of cases arising in schools of pupils suffering from mental health issues and will be delivered for a minimum of three years.
With one in 10 children now living with a diagnosable mental health disorder, the hope is that the one-to-one support will offer early intervention for pupils and also increase awareness of mental health amongst children and the whole community in Burnley.