About The Mental Healthy Family Hour

The show has aired 9 episodes and covered a wide variety of mental health topics including anxiety, depression, coping strategies, suicide, drug use, self-esteem, eating disorders and social media use. Each episode lasts for over an hour.

The show is aimed at children and young people experiencing these things and the parents and teachers supporting them. The hosts launched the show with the aim of opening up lines of communication between children and their parents and teachers to enable more beneficial conversations around mental health.

The hosts say that although they miss being face to face with the students, they would previously have been limited to a maximum of 150 students per week and geographically limited to Lancashire. Thanks to streaming services such as Twitch and YouTube this number is potentially limitless. Also, being able to speak to children as well as their parents and teachers is proving to be a huge benefit of this platform.