This week's Community Column is written by Ross Greer, Green MSP for the West of Scotland region.

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In April I wrote on the challenges facing personal and social education in our schools.

Too often our young people are not learning about the issues that they face, including mental health. Since then, I’ve made some progressing on getting this sorted but the challenge is huge.

The Scottish Association for Mental Health estimates that three pupils in every classroom will have experienced a mental health issue by the time they are 16. And it is not difficult to see why.

School is already incredibly stressful for many pupils: navigating growing up, the stress of exams, self-image, and peer pressure. In an increasingly connected world, many of those pressures continue outside of school. It is difficult to switch off.

Yet despite so many pupils experiencing mental health issues, two thirds of teachers do not feel they have adequate training to offer support.

Years of austerity have also seen cuts to specialist support staff like educational psychologists. This means our schools are not ‘Getting it Right for Every Child’.

This in turn puts enormous pressure on child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

CAMHS is meant to be there for those in crisis, but too often many people feel they simply have nowhere else to turn, resulting in colossal waiting times.

Recognising this, the Scottish Young Greens have launched a new campaign: Healthy Minds Healthy Students. This campaign is focused on guaranteeing every young person quality mental health education at school and to support pupils in their transition from school to university or college.

The Young Greens have collected testimonies from young people across Scotland about their experiences, finding out where the gaps in education are, what young people want to learn about, and what would have helped them at school.

I have also been championing mental health education in the parliament’s education committee. I persuaded the committee to conduct an inquiry into PSE, which has led to the government launching a review.

This review will specifically address the issues I raised such as inadequate and inconsistent mental health, and sex and relationships education.

The Young Greens’ Healthy Minds Healthy Students campaign will feed into that review and make sure young people’s voices are heard.

We’re optimistic of real progress when it reports next year.

The stigma around mental health is shrinking but the education and support services must be there for our young people. Otherwise, we can’t pretend we’re ‘Getting It Right for Every Child’.