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School pupils and college students in Greater Manchester told mental health professionals that the negative ways their experience of the pandemic is being discussed is adding to their feelings of anxiety.<\/p>\n

And they feel the general narrative has ignored the way many of them have coped with the challenges of the last year and a half.<\/p>\n

Now, with the help of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, young people are beginning to tell their side of the story through the Changing the Narrative: Unmasked and Stronger Than Ever <\/em>campaign.<\/p>\n

Local teenagers are finding their voice and using art, poetry and film to share their own pandemic experiences – showing how they have developed as people, become stronger and discovered skills they didn\u2019t know they had, while still acknowledging there have been tough times.<\/p>\n

Students from four colleges in Wigan and Rochdale came together in May to plan the campaign and choose the name. During the day they worked alongside a videographer to create a film<\/p>\n

Young people from the colleges had spent the previous weeks making art and films \u2013 about their experiences during lockdown, showing how they\u2019d coped and what they had been able to achieve during this time.<\/p>\n

Work in a school or college in Greater Manchester? Join the campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n

The students\u2019 work is available to all\u00a0 local schools and colleges on the Greater Manchester repository<\/a><\/strong>. We hope these resources will inspire you to work with your students to create new art, film, music, poetry etc. You can add your work to the library and help us to document these unusual times from a young person\u2019s perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n

William Powell, a student at St John Rigby College in Wigan, said: \u201cIt has not been all the doom and gloom that you see on the six o\u2019clock news. It\u2019s been. for some people, quite an interesting experience – because they don\u2019t normally get as much free time to develop personal skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to think that the Covid Generation would be something that\u2019s seen as more of a positive than a negative. And we\u2019ll be seen as people who did have that resilience and did keep on going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Sandeep Ranote, Interim Greater Manchester Medical Executive lead for mental health, said:\u00a0\u201cThroughout the pandemic a\u00a0bleak\u00a0picture has been painted of the situation our young people\u00a0are\u00a0returning\u00a0to as we gradually overcome coronavirus \u2013 although for some we must recognise their worries and the challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, that\u2019s far from the whole story. We must not overlook the strength young people have shown, the ways in which they have been able to adapt, and how many have remained optimistic while facing previously unimagined challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must not tell young people about their circumstances, instead we need to listen and give them the chance to tell us what they think and feel about the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cChanging the Narrative: Unmasked and Stronger than Ever<\/em>\u00a0does just that \u2013 it gives young people a way to tell us what the pandemic has really been like for them. If we don\u2019t listen, we\u2019ll miss the positives that exists alongside the challenges and our presumptions about young people will become self-fulfilling prophecies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the generation lost in lockdown, it is the generation who learned through lockdown!\u201d<\/p>\n

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