Identifying Need and Monitoring Impact in a community setting
This section provides resources and guidance on identifying need and monitoring impact of any interventions or support for children and young people.
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#DontDoItAlone Campaign
Kooth's #DontDoItAlone campaign including resources and a video with famous faces, to encourage young people to reach out when they are struggling.
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Brain in Hand
Brain in Hand gives easy access to personalised support from an app on your phone. It’s packed with features to help you remember activities, reduce anxiety and feel supported.
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CHUMS – Bereavement Support
CHUMS offer specialist bereavement support to children and young people from 3½ up until their 26th birthday in Kent and Medway.
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Core Skills Resource Book: Supporting Practitioners to Engage with Children and Young People
This resource book is intended to support practitioners to engage children and young people in their assessment and future interventions in a supportive and enabling way.
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Domestic abuse support
Information, advice and support for victims of domestic abuse, friends and family and perpetrators.
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Down’s Syndrome Association: Emotional wellbeing resources
The Down's Syndrome Association have created an innovative set of resources to support the emotional wellbeing of children and adults with Down’s syndrome, and their parents and family-carers.
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iCan programme
Kent Domestic Abuse Consortium have developed the iCan programme to support male adolescents aged 13-16 who have been traumatised by domestic abuse or have unhealthy relationships with their peers or families.
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Information for families on Autism and ADHD in children: a support handbook and films
This handbook is for Kent families who would like to know more about Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children.
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KCHFT: The Pod children’s therapies
The Pod has been developed by the Kent and East Sussex Integrated Children’s Therapies teams, provided by Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. We support children and young people to develop their skills to their full potential, so they can participate in everyday activities.
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Kooth.com online support and counselling
Free online support and counselling for young people in Kent.
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Mental Health Foundation: Fundamental facts about mental health (2016)
A comprehensive summary of mental health research, providing a unique handbook of key facts and figures, covering all key areas of mental health.
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NASEN: helping everyone achieve
NASEN (National Association for Special Educational Needs) is a charitable membership organisation that supports all education practitioners with Continuing Professional Development and Learning, resources, advice, information and much more.
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National Autistic Society
The National Autistic Society help the 700,000 Autistic people in the UK and their families. Since 1962, they have been providing support, guidance and advice, as well as campaigning for improved rights, services and opportunities to help create a society that works for Autistic people.
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NCB – Learning from HeadStart Partnerships
Collating key learning and best practice from across the six HeadStart partnerships - united in their focus on improving resilience, preventing emerging mental health problems and reducing the need for specialist services.
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Our Time: Helping young people affected by parental mental illness
Over 2.9 million young people in the UK live with or care for a parent with a mental illness. 'Our Time' helps young people dealing with parental mental illness. They make sure they get the support they need and have their voices heard.
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Resilience Conversations
There are six areas in our lives where we can promote resilience. Here you will find the Resilience Conversation tool as well as information, guidance and a video.
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Resilience Tool for Online Behaviour from HeadStart Kernow
The Online Resilience Tool is a practical way to assess young people's online behaviour and help you make a decision about whether that behaviour represents risk of harm.
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Talents and Interests grant for young people
Up to £300 per young person and £1000 for groups is available to support young people with their hobbies, talents or interests.
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Why is it so important to address anxiety?
Guide from the National Autistic Society, exploring anxiety in those with ASD, how this can affect them and ways of identifying, reducing and managing this.