{"id":193803,"date":"2025-06-18T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193803\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:25:10","slug":"kent-gardening-programme-for-student-mental-health-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193803\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent gardening programme for student mental health expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Masters student Gabriel Scannicchio has also been benefiting from getting involved in the garden, as he is becoming used to being around big groups of people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a lot of volunteers coming and going and me being one of them obviously meant that I have to be around them quite a lot,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The University of Kent said it was investing in opportunities and activities to support mental wellbeing as well as employing mental health advisers and counsellors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee Fellowes, deputy director of student services and head of student support and wellbeing at the university, added: &#8220;Students and young people in general are struggling, the NHS does have resource issues so it&#8217;s really important for us to support and look after our students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will look at a variety of different options of support including outdoor practical natured support.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Masters student Gabriel Scannicchio has also been benefiting from getting involved in the garden, as he is becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114703179905918185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}