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How can young people help shape better mental health support for schools, communities, and their generation?
The Mental Health Hackathon Unit of Work invites students to explore the future of youth mental health by designing practical initiatives that respond to real challenges facing young people today.
Across a structured 10-week program, students work collaboratively to investigate current youth mental health issues, develop user personas, and design three connected solutions: a digital mental health platform, a supportive community space and a school-based wellbeing initiative. As their ideas evolve, students also build a brand identity for their initiative and prepare a final pitch to present their solution.
The unit is built around user-centred design, helping students understand how empathy, research, collaboration and critical thinking shape innovation. Each week introduces a new focus area through editable slide decks featuring case studies, discussion prompts, design activities and guided research tasks. Printable worksheets support each lesson by giving students structured tools for ideation, SWOT analysis, rapid concept generation, branding and pitch preparation.
Designed for secondary classrooms, wellbeing programs, innovation electives and project-based learning environments, the unit provides teachers with a clear 10-week delivery structure including learning objectives, classroom instructions and materials required for each session. Students finish the program by presenting a youth-led mental health initiative that demonstrates creativity, practicality and social impact.
Age Group
High School Students
Learning Time
10 weeks of classroom delivery with approximately 1 x 60 minute lesson per week, plus optional extension time for idea development.
Student Output
Students design a youth-led mental health initiative, combining a digital solution, school-based program, community space and a final pitch into a completed social innovation concept.
Delivery Format
This resource is delivered as a digital bundle that includes editable Word documents and PowerPoint slide decks for teachers, along with printable PDF templates and assessment sheets for student use.
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What's Included
Upon purchasing the Mental Health Hackathon Unit of Work, you will receive a downloadable bundle of teaching resources designed to support the delivery of a full project based learning unit centred around youth mental health, innovation and social impact.
The resource package includes a mix of editable teaching materials and ready to use student templates to help educators deliver the program with ease. The unit plan and lesson slide decks are provided in editable formats so teachers can adapt the materials to suit their classroom and curriculum needs. Student facing resources such as templates, task sheets and activity scaffolds are provided as PDF documents ready to print or distribute digitally.
Included in this bundle:
Challenge Task Sheet (PDF): A student facing overview of the hackathon challenge outlining the project focus, expectations, and final outcomes students are working towards.
Unit Overview (6 Pages – PDF): A high level overview of the full 10-week unit including weekly topics, learning objectives, classroom activities and materials required for delivery.
Lesson Slide Decks (10 x Editable PowerPoints): Weekly presentation slides designed to guide each stage of the unit, introducing key mental health concepts, case studies, activities, discussion prompts and innovation tasks.
Printable Student Templates (6 x Printable PDF): A collection of printable templates used throughout the unit to support brainstorming, SWOT analysis, user persona development, rapid ideation, space planning and pitch preparation.
These resources have been designed to support educators in delivering a complete social innovation project, giving students the tools and guidance they need to explore youth mental health challenges, develop practical solutions and present ideas that could create meaningful impact in schools and communities.
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