Browsing MH: Schools - tools and training resources

• Making sense of mental health – understanding the mental health of children and young people with complex needs
  The National Association of Independent and Non-Maintained Special Schools (NASS) and The University of Northampton have launched their new e-learning training for staff about the mental health of children and young peop ...
  
  
• Reach for the stars: Feeling Good week
  This is a resource pack for schools that was produced by Surrey CAMHS for their annual Feeling Good week.
  
  
• ADHD and you
  This online resource is aimed at people who have or who care for a person with ADHD.
  
  
• Whole school emotional wellbeing
  This video demonstrates how emotional wellbeing is being promoted in inner city schools.
  
  
• The Well-being Zone
  This Children's Society website is aimed at children and young people. It provides resources which look at wellbeing, such as the Happy-ometer.
  
  
• Sticks and stones eduation pack
  These shools resource pack are designed for use by teachers and contain a variety of useful information, lesson plans and materials to raise awareness of mental health and learning disability stigma for use in personal, ...
  
  
• YoungMinds in Schools
  This schools programme, which is funded by the DfE, aims to improve outcomes for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties by providing a comprehensive suite of online learning resourc ...
  
  
• Heads and tales
  An education pack which aims to provide an active learning experience that challenges stigma towards mental health and to promote positive mental well-being. Includes 3 short films and exercise booklets. The pack cannot ...
  
  
• Media smart (website)
  A free 'media literacy' programme for 6 - 11 year olds, focused on advertising. Includes a teaching pack to help children understand how the media often alter images and the impact these have on selfesteem.
  
  
• School wellbeing (website)
  This website aims to be a one stop shop for staff in schools whose job it is to support wellbeing aspects of the school curriculum. The term ‘wellbeing’ spans a wide spectrum of themes. The site includes a library of res ...
  
  
• The teen brain: still under construction
  This booklet describes changes in the brain that occur during the teenage years, and looks at the significance of this stage of development.
  
  
• OCD at school: a guide for teachers, parents and young people
  This project aims to provide support to young people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in secondary schools in the Greater London area during a period of two years. The website has sections providing guidance for ...
  
  
• How to get up and go when you're feeling low: top tips for feeling good
  The aim of this booklet is to help children and young people think about what helps them when they feel upset or stressed
  
  
• Healthy Schools toolkit
  The Healthy Schools toolkit is designed to help schools to ‘plan, do and review’ health and wellbeing improvements for their children and young people and to identify and select activities and interventions effectively. ...
  
  
• I gotta feeling: top tips for feeling good
  This booklet lists some things that young people have found helped them feel better when they felt sad, stressed or angry and some things that help you feel good generally. This booklet is aimed at year 7 students.
  
  
• The transition from primary to secondary school: how an understanding of mental health and emotional wellbeing can help children, schools and families: a training resource.
  This training resource helps schools think about why some children may be more vulnerable in facing transition and to support schools in developing ways of working that will allow all children to find a sense of belongin ...
  
  
• Mental health matters for FE teachers toolkit
  Further Education (FE) teachers often express concern that they do not have the knowledge or expertise to meet the needs of learners who experience mental health difficulties. This resource, which has been supported and ...
  
  
• Healthy schools profiles for local areas
  Provides key current local data about children and young people’s health and wellbeing. This data can be used with the Healthy Schools toolkit, by schools working within the healthy schools planning phase. Using the prof ...
  
  
• Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
  The CAF is a shared assessment and planning framework for use across all children's services and all local areas in England. It aims to help the early identification of children's additional needs and promote co-ordinate ...
  
  
• Emotional well-being and mental health support for children and young people in schools (Rotherham toolkit)
  This resource is based on the Bristol Healthy Schools Toolkit. It aims to support schools to do the right thing at the right time to produce the best outcomes for children and young people with mental health difficulties ...
  
  
• Emotional well-being and mental health support for children and young people in schools (Bristol toolkit)
  The Bristol Healthy Schools toolkit supports schools to do the right thing at the right time to produce the best outcomes for children and young people with mental health difficulties. It is included here as an example o ...
  
  
• Emotional well-being and mental health support for children and young people in schools (blank template)
  This document provides a blank version of the Bristol Healthy Schools toolkit and acts a template for schools to follow. The toolkit is included here as an example of how to document the range of agencies supporting ch ...