08/12/2025
Same Side starts today and it Starts with a Conversation…
The minds of our young boys and adolescents are being captured by negative feeds online..
This is extremely detrimental to their Mental Health stability and growth…
Thoughts create feelings and feelings we often act upon..
This could Lead to behaviours that they really don’t fully understand…
Right now, algorithms are telling boys and young men they shouldn't cry.�That depression is a choice.�That women are the enemy.
They’re not searching for this content — but it’s finding them anyway…
Today Same Side, a new campaign from UN Women and Vodafone Foundation, using the power of sport (with stars including Ugo Monye, James Maddison and Nedum Onuoha) to show that there is more than one way to be a man…
What can we do:
🙏🏼 Talk to your young people about what is slipping into their viewing space online…
🙏🏼 Mentor them around the dangers of feeding their minds with negativity and the consequences that they might experience..
🙏🏼 Notice any changes of behaviours towards friends, girls and women…
🙏🏼 Notice a change in dialogue or language about their world views and beliefs…
🙏🏼 Be there in support if they need to ask questions about life aspects instead of searching on the internet..
🙏🏼 Learn open communication in our families..
🙏🏼 Seek support, a Counsellor can support you as a family whilst moving through difficult adolescent mind growth…
For parents and caregivers:
You don’t have to have all the answers. But you can help them make sense of what they see online.
The Same Side Conversation Guide gives you practical prompts to talk to the young people in your life about pressure, respect, confidence, and harmful content — without shaming or shutting down.
This is real, this is happening and for Mental Health stability in our boys and young men and for the safety of our girls and women, we need to act now…
Check in on your teens online activities..
WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME SIDE…
The ‘Same Side’ Campaign guide click 👇🏼
https://143794838.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/143794838/Same%20Side%20Conversation%20Guide.pdf
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