Youth mental health with Angeli Sweeney

A warm Mancunian welcome to all my listeners. Presenting Season 6, Episode 7 of the #MeettheMancunian #podcast #mancunian #manchester #youth #mentalhealth #socialimpact #nonprofit #blackhistorymonth. I'm Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe, your friendly host.

In the seventh episode, the Meet the Mancunian podcast talks to Angeli Sweeney, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeli-sweeney-92505332/] Senior Mental Health Practitioner and Youth Worker, 42nd Street [https://www.42ndstreet.org.uk/] about supporting young people's emotional and mental health and wellbeing. Angeli shares how 42nd street has been supporting young people aged from 11-25 years championing youth-centred approaches that promote choice and creativity.

42nd Street offer a range of individual therapeutic support and encourage and support young people to have a voice, and access opportunities to learn, develop new skills, be creative, have fun and demonstrate to themselves and others that they are able to recover, manage their mental health and wellbeing and achieve their full potential.

Did you know:

* 20% of adolescents may      experience a mental health problem in any given year.
* 50% of mental health      problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24.
* 10% of children and young      people (aged 5 to 16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem.
* 42nd Street is over 43      years old and has been supporting young people's physical and emotional      health since it started.
* The charity has its own dedicated      creative venue The Horsfall, inspired by the work of Thomas Horsfall who      created a unique social and artistic experiment at Ancoats at the end of      the 19th century.

Time stamps of key moments in the podcast episode & transcript:

00:03:29 sharing her passion for supporting the youth

00:04:34 introducing 42nd Street

00:07:56 some of the challenges she had to overcome

00:09:58 the impact the charity has made

00:14:49 message for Black History Month

Listen to the episode and read the transcript on www.meetthemancunian.co.uk [http://www.meetthemancunian.co.uk/]