Children’s Mental Health Week 2026 invites us to reflect on a powerful theme: “This Is My Place.”  At its heart, this theme encapsulates  something deeply human; the need to belong, to feel held in mind, and to know there is a space where you are safe, seen and valued. For children and young people, place  is never just physical. It is relational. It is emotional. It is the felt sense that I matter here . When this sense of belonging is absent or disrupted, children and young