Your questions, answered

Mental health literacy helps students, educators, and parents recognise signs of emotional distress, understand how to respond supportively, and know when and where to seek professional help.

NOTICE is designed for parents and caregivers who want practical tools for recognising emotional changes in children and teenagers and having supportive mental health conversations at home.

Yes. Let's Be Real provides online and in-person mental health literacy and Youth Mental Health Response training for international schools across Europe and beyond and other international education contexts.

It is our training for the adults around young people. It teaches you how to notice early changes, hold a supportive conversation, and lead a young person towards the right help - without needing to be a clinician.

Youth Mental Health Response is our school-specific framework, inspired by Mental Health First Aid principles and adapted for the roles and realities of international schools. It is an independent curriculum developed by Let's Be Real. We also deliver certified First Aid for Mental Health courses where a school wants an accredited qualification.

Yes. Educator training covers early warning signs, supportive conversations, safeguarding boundaries, referral pathways, and staff wellbeing. It can run as a half-day INSET or as a longer certified course.

Parents learn what a genuine change in behaviour looks like, how to open a conversation without shutting it down, how to respond to anxiety, low mood, or self-harm disclosures, and when to seek professional support.

Primary age. The language and examples change with the age group, but naming feelings, asking for help, and looking out for friends can be taught from the earliest years and built on through secondary school.

Yes. Every programme runs online as well as in person, which is how we work with international schools and parent communities across Europe and beyond.

The student programme is six modules designed to sit inside existing tutor or wellbeing time. Adult training ranges from NOTICE, a 4-hour parent workshop delivered as two 2-hour live sessions, to a two-day certified course.

Our programmes are delivered in English, which suits international and English-language school communities. German-language sessions can be arranged for parent groups on request.

Cost depends on the format, group size, and whether delivery is online or in person. We quote after a short scoping call so you are not paying for content your community does not need.

Yes. Our programmes are designed for the international-school context: mobile student populations, multilingual families, diverse pastoral systems, and staff who need practical tools that work across cultures. We deliver online and in person across Europe and beyond.

Yes. Our default language is English, which is why many international and English-language schools across Europe and beyond work with us. Materials, sessions, and follow-up resources are delivered in English.

The core programmes run in English, but German-language parent sessions and workshops can be arranged on request for German-speaking parent groups.

Send us an enquiry with your school, country, and age range. We reply with available dates and a proposed shape, usually within two working days.

Let's Be Real is a mental health literacy initiative for schools and families across Europe and beyond. Founded by Jacqueline Klemke and Nick Praulins, it provides English-language programmes that equip young people, parents, and educators with practical tools to navigate stress, identity challenges, and the pressures of growing up in a phone-first world.

Let's Be Real works with international and English-language schools, educators, parents, and young people across Germany, Europe and beyond. Programmes are designed for children and teenagers, the adults who support them, and school communities looking to build a shared language around mental health.

Let's Be Real is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It primarily serves international and English-language schools, families, and organisations across Germany, Europe and beyond. Programmes are available both in person and online, making them accessible to communities across the continent.

Many international school communities and expatriate families in Europe and beyond operate primarily in English but struggle to find high-quality mental health education delivered in English. Let's Be Real fills that gap, ensuring that language is never a barrier to accessing support.

Let's Be Real is an education initiative, not a clinical service. It does not provide therapy or psychological treatment. Its programmes build understanding, vocabulary, and resilience across whole communities: students, teachers, and parents together. Where a young person needs clinical support, Let's Be Real helps the adults around them recognise that need and respond appropriately.

Changes, more than dramatic moments: a young person withdrawing from friends or activities they used to enjoy, sleep or appetite shifting, marks or attendance sliding, irritability or exhaustion that lasts for weeks, or talk that sounds hopeless. One sign on its own is rarely the story. A pattern that persists is.

Name what you have noticed, keep it specific and non-judgemental, and then listen far longer than you speak. "I have noticed you seem tired lately - how are things?" opens a door; "What is wrong with you?" closes it. You do not need answers or a diagnosis. Asking directly about how someone is coping does not plant an idea; it usually brings relief.

The same skills are taught on both sides of the relationship. Adults learn to notice, hold a conversation, and pass it on to the right support. Young people build the self-awareness, language, and tools to look after themselves and to ask for help early. A school only feels safe when both sides speak the same language.

Let's Be Real offers four core services: a structured mental health literacy programme for students, focused on resilience, belonging and self-understanding; certified Mental Health First Aid training for parents and educators; wellbeing and resilience workshops tailored for children, teenagers and adults; and parent education sessions on mental health awareness and practical support strategies.

Programmes are available both in-person and online.

A mental health literacy programme teaches people to recognise, understand, and respond to mental health challenges. Let's Be Real's programme goes beyond awareness: it builds resilience, fosters a sense of belonging, and helps young people understand themselves more honestly. It is designed to work across the whole school community, not just with students.

Yes. Let's Be Real delivers certified First Aid for Mental Health training for parents and educators. The training equips adults to identify early warning signs, provide initial support, and connect young people with appropriate help.

The six literacy modules are written to be delivered across primary and secondary years, with the language, examples and depth adapted to the age group in front of us. We agree the pitch with your pastoral team before delivery so the content lands with your students rather than sitting above or below them.

Yes. The core content and the qualified trainers stay fixed; format, sequencing, timing and audience are yours to shape. Most schools weave the modules into what they already run rather than bolting on something separate.

Always. Mental health literacy only holds when students, educators and parents share the same language, which is why parent sessions and adult training sit alongside the student modules rather than as an optional extra.

Youth Mental Health Response is our school-specific framework, inspired by Mental Health First Aid principles and adapted for the roles and realities of international schools. It is an independent curriculum developed by Let's Be Real. If your school needs an accredited qualification, we also deliver certified First Aid for Mental Health courses through an awarding body.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is adult training in how to respond to someone experiencing a mental health challenge. Mental Health Literacy is the wider knowledge that helps whole school communities - students, staff, and parents - recognise, talk about, and seek help for mental health. Our programmes build both: literacy across the community and trained response capacity among adults.

All delivery is safeguarding-aware. Trainers are trained to recognise disclosure boundaries, will never investigate or promise confidentiality where a child may be at risk, and will always direct concerns to your school's designated safeguarding lead. Content is age-appropriate and trauma-informed.

The student literacy modules are designed to sit inside existing tutor, PSHE, or wellbeing time rather than compete with the timetable. We map content to your existing scope and sequence, and we agree the pitch with your pastoral team before delivery.

The student modules span primary and secondary years, with language, examples, and depth adapted to the age group in front of us. Adult training is for parents, educators, and school leaders. We agree the exact age focus with your team during scoping.

The student mental health literacy programme runs across six modules designed for existing tutor or wellbeing slots. Adult training ranges from NOTICE, a 4-hour parent workshop delivered as two 2-hour live sessions, to a two-day certified First Aid for Mental Health course. We scope exact timings with each school.

Yes. A whole-community approach is more effective when students, teachers, and parents share the same language. We can run joint sessions for parents and staff, or separate cohorts, depending on what works best for your school culture and timetable.

Rates of anxiety, depression, and social disconnection among children and teenagers have risen sharply. Pressures from social media, identity questions, and a broader sense of disconnection leave many young people without the tools to cope. Mental health literacy gives them a language for their experiences and practical strategies to respond. It also prepares the adults around them to provide meaningful support rather than reactive concern.

Yes. A 2025 meta-analysis in JAMA Network Open pooled 97 randomised trials with 43,852 young people and found school-based mental health literacy and anti-stigma programmes improved knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking intentions. Our Evidence section sets out the studies and their limitations in full.

A short call to understand your community: size, age range, what you already run, and where the gaps sit. We then propose a shape and cost. There is no obligation and no template pitch.

You can contact Let's Be Real directly through the website contact form or by email. The team works with schools and organisations to scope programmes that fit their specific community, size, and needs.