Mental Health Support & Education for Chinese Kids

by Concordia Welfare and Education Foundation

Project Report | Nov 26, 2025
What do you think falling in love will be like?

By Jenny Chu | Senior Program Director in Yunnan

Students working in the mental health course

Do you look forward to falling in love? What do you think falling in love will be like? These are some questions, Xiaochun, a teacher at Tuanjie Town Middle School in Yunnan asked students during a CWEF-sponsored mental health class this September.

Teacher Teng talked in depth with students about how to have healthy romantic relationships. Together they discussed the difference between liking someone and loving someone:

Liking: Refers to mutual empathy, which includes a positive assessment, appreciation and respect for each other.

Loving: Includes a need for intimacy, dependency, and a tendency to help each other. It also has a sense of exclusively loving that one person.

The class also discussed 5 principles of healthy romance:

Expectations: Clarify the emotional expectations for yourself and others.
Timing: early adulthood (18-25 years old) is an important time for establishing intimacy, students should reserve their best selves for the right person.
Distance: students discussed four types of interpersonal distance, so that they can understand the importance of maintaining appropriate interpersonal boundaries
Capacity to Love: students were encouraged to first learn to love themselves, and develop the ability to understand and work well with others before seeking out a romantic relationship
Alignment of Values: students reflected of the importance of sharing the same values with a significant other

Concluding Message:

Always believe in love and look forward to it; have the confidence to love yourself, and also cultivate the ability to love others. Love can be perfect or have regrets. Whether it is the luck of love at first sight or the sadness of unrequited love, both are part of youth. It is hoped that students can face the gains and losses in relationships with a positive attitude, learn to grow through love, and welcome the beautiful future of being well-matched with a better version of themselves.

THANK YOU for partnering with CWEF and supporting the mental health of young people in China! Because of you, these students have a better chance of enjoying healthier romantic relationships and making wise choices about love both now and in the future.

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Aug 1, 2025
Seminar: The Changes to Expect in Adolescence

By Jenny Chu | Project Manager in Yunnan

Lecture Hall with 100 Grade School Girls

On June 3rd, your generous giving through CWEF supported a unique lecture for students on coping with the physical and emotional changes of adolescence. The presentation aimed to help adolescent girls understand themselves as well as improve their mental health and life skills.

Time: June 3rd, 2025

Venue: Wumeng Township Central School

Participants: 100 girls in Grades 4-6, Teacher Shao Jiafang, Principal Li of Wumeng Township Central School, and the teaching team

Main Events

1. Principal's Speech - The principal emphasized the significance of mental health in adolescence. He encouraged students to actively participate in solving the problems they face, and approach adolescent changes with a confident and healthy attitude.

2. Lecture by Teacher Shao Jiafang - who kindly explained common changes in adolescence:

Physical changes like breast development, appearance of pubic and armpit hair, the patterns of a menstrual cycle etc.

Psychological changes like causes of emotional fluctuations, developing a positive self-image etc.

3. Interactive Q&A: students overcame their shyness and became eager to ask questions.

4. Guided simulations: students practiced coping skills through simulated conversations / scenarios

5. Growth Oath: Students participated in an oath to accept physical and emotional changes and strengthen their self-identity

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Results

Questions that were previously too embarrassing to ask were answered. Students learned how to cope with adolescent changes. As one student mentioned, "After the lecture, I know how to face physical changes, and the stone in my heart has finally dropped."

Students gained a more scientific understanding of adolescent physical and psychological changes, reducing ther fear and confusion and teaching them how to have the right attitude when coping with challenges.

Summary

This lecture provided valuable knowledge and reflections to girls at Wumeng Township Central School in Yunnan, China. The activity not only provided scientific knowledge but also emotional care. Students will face the changes of adolescence more confidently.

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Apr 4, 2025
The Classes You Gave to Migrant Children in Kunming

By Jenny Chu | Project Manager in Yunnan

Teaching about self awareness

Due to rapid urbanization, the population of migrant children in Kunming has increased significantly. Most migrant parents hold temporary jobs, leaving them little time to care for their children. The lack of family education has led to numerous challenges. These migrant children lack necessary daily care. This imbalance often leads to parent-child conflicts which causes children to struggle in other relationships as well. More seriously, some children do extreme things like drop out of school or run away from home.

This is why, through your generosity, CWEF supported life education classes for 250 students and 20 teachers at Bohua school in Kunming City during 2024. Here are some examples of the many topics covered in the class:

1. "Stereotypes"

Target Group: 5th grade students

Content:

Through riddles and interactive discussions, students learned to recognize and distinguish stereotypes.
The course aimed to help students understand the impact of stereotypes on evaluating others and learn to avoid stereotypes based on gender, region, and other characteristics

Key Quotes:

"Stereotypes make us overlook individual differences, forming preconceived notions."
"Do not judge others' abilities or personalities based on gender, region, or other characteristics."

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2. "I Am a Media Assessment Expert"

Target Group: 5th grade students

Content:

Through interactive questions and video screenings, students learned to assess media information and avoid succumbing to bad influences
The course aimed to improve students' media literacy and cultivate their ability to think independently.

Key Quotes:

"Media information is everywhere; we must learn to identify the values in it."
"Do not blindly follow media propaganda; learn to think independently."

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3. "Your Special Value"

Target Group: 2nd & 3rd grade students

Content:

Through a picture book about tomato plants, students learned that everyone has unique value and strengths.
The course used questions and interactive games to guide students to reflect on their own unique qualities and encourage them to have confidence.

Key Quotes:

"Both tall and short tomato plants have their own strengths; everyone is unique."
"No matter what kind of person you are, you have your own value and deserve respect."

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THANK YOU for your heart for migrant children in China and for supporting the mental and relational health of both the children and their parents through your generosity!! 250 children are better equipped to face the big wide world BECAUSE OF YOU!

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