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Adolescent health and development
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Child Health and Development
Ensuring infants, children and adolescents survive, thrive, and achieve their developmental potential.
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Yeming overcomes bullying at school, thanks to mental health lessons
Thirteen-year-old Yeming stands on her own by the window of an empty classroom at Zhangqiu No 4 High School, Shandong. She looks out across the vast school campus, which hosts 9,900 students in huge red-brick buildings. She watches other students walking between yellowing trees beneath her, their footsteps echoing...
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'Now, I feel like I want to live my life and be happy.'
Embedded video follows "I felt completely lost and didn't know how I would go on," says Zihan, 17, who struggled with mental health after losing her mum. Zihan was helped by Wenhao, 16, a UNICEF-trained peer supporter, and is now moving forward.
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Zihan rebuilds her mental health with help from a peer supporter
After a long day at school, Zhu Zihan, 17, returns to her family home in an apartment building in Zhangqiu, Shandong Province. She climbs the plain concrete stairs to the sixth floor and knocks on the last door. Her father, Zhu Chulin, welcomes her. It’s a bitingly cold autumn evening but warm and cosy inside. The...
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Building confidence, building the future
Embedded video follows "The life skills course helped me communicate and interact more courageously with people at the internship," shares Haojie, 19. UNICEF and partners are promoting life skills in vocational education to equip adolescents with life skills for their future.
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‘A key to open the door to the outside world’
Embedded video follows "The life skills course transformed me into a brave, confident and optimistic person," says Junjun,16. UNICEF and the Ministry of Education are promoting life skills in vocational education across China, including through a series of dedicated courses run in schools.
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Child Health and Development
Challenges, China has made remarkable progress in the past 30 years in improving child and maternal health. However, there is still work to be done to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and China’s Healthy China 2030 Action Plan. The major challenges UNICEF, the Government of China, and partners are working...
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Harnessing the uplifting power of music
What would you do to boost your mental health if you felt anxious, worried or depressed? For many people, music is often high on the list, because the right melody and lyrics can soothe and heal a worrying mind. A group of young people have taken it to another level. Supported by UNICEF, they rewrote the lyrics of...
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We need everyone to help break the silence around mental health – UNICEF
BEIJING, 12 October 2021, –, At an event held today, UNICEF called for societies to listen to young people, who are increasingly raising their voices for mental health, and to commit to supporting their psychological well-being. The event was co-hosted by the National Center for Mental Health and UNICEF China, wit...
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A Stronger You music video
Embedded video follows Lyrics：Perry Kan, Li Simo, Wang Zelong, Yu Xinwei, 小末子Sophies Composing：Dieter Bohlen Performance：Perry Kan, Li Simo, Wang Zelong, Yu Xinwei, Siena Wu Arrangement：Yang Bowen (Radiax) Lyrics: I used to think that there was magic That could make all my troubles go away But as I grow up, I realise the world doesn’t work that…
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The State of the World's Children 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the mental health of a generation of children. But the pandemic may represent the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long. The State of the World’s Children 2021 examines child, adolescent and caregiver mental health. It focuses o...
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The State of the World's Children 2021 Executive Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised huge concerns for the mental health of an entire generation of children and young people and parents and caregivers. But the pandemic may represent only the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long. For the first time in its history, The State of...