16 percent of all recorded mental illness within Mental health outpatient facilities are children and adolescents. Mental health problems among children go undetected in most cases, continuing through adolescence to adulthood and result into serious mental disorders. Children and adolescents are most vulnerable to substance misuse, sexual violence, depression, anxiety and denied their rights to play, be free from torture, ill-treatment, and exploitation consequently leading to mental illness. Mental health stigma interferes with children and adolescents’ education, association, health seeking behavior, drug compliance, and leads to poor mental health, social exclusion, suicidal behavior. Stigma creates shame among families, and caregivers which weakens their emotion resilience to cope, and care. CCU and partners work with children and adolescents between 10-24years specifically survivors, most at risk children and adolescents, families and caregivers within and out of school communities to counter stigma through using sports to;