All Resources
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#DontDoItAlone campaign
New for 2021 - 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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A whole school approach: how does it help to build the resilience of young people?
HeadStart Kent Evaluation Report (2020) on how a whole school approach can build the resilience of young people.
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Activities and resources for working with young people
Here you will find a variety of resources, activities and games to use with young people covering plenty of topics including self-care, mindfulness and mental health.
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Anna Freud: advice for parents and carers
Simple advice and guidance to parents and carers of primary aged children about how to make conversations about their child's feelings part of everyday conversations.
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Anna Freud: engaging with parents and carers around mental health and wellbeing
A booklet exploring a range of innovative ways that schools can successfully engage with parents and carers around young people's mental health and wellbeing.
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Anna Freud: Schools in Mind
Schools in Mind is a free network for school staff providing accessible information and resources that school staff can use to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people.
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Anna Freud: staff wellbeing
Anna Freud offer practical guidance about what school staff and senior leaders can do to support their own and their colleagues' wellbeing.
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Anna Freud: supporting mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools booklet
This booklet aims to offer practical guidance about what school staff can do to support mental health, and how to help if they are concerned about a child or young person.
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Anna Freud: Wellbeing Measurement Framework
A suite of validated wellbeing measurement booklets for primary school, secondary school and college students.
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Anti-Bullying Alliance: All Together Programme
A whole-school anti-bullying programme offered free to schools across England including questionnaires, resources and CPD opportunities for staff.
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Anti-Bullying Alliance: resources and information
Resources, online training and information on preventing and tackling bullying in schools.
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Barnardo’s back to school and transition resources
Two useful leaflets full of activities and resources to allow children to explore their feelings about returning to school after lockdown and transitioning from Year 6 to Year 7
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Be Free Positive Relationships
The BeFree programme is for 10–18 year old girls and trans individuals, living in Kent, who are at risk of experiencing unhealthy or abusive relationships.
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Beat: Eating Disorders
Around 1.25 million people in the UK suffer from eating disorders, many in secret. They are of all ages, genders and backgrounds – eating disorders do not discriminate. Beat's national helpline exists to encourage and empower people to get help quickly, because we know the sooner someone starts treatment, the greater their chance of recovery.
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Bereavement support for children and young people
Information and guidance on how you can help a child or young person who is grieving.
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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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Charlie Waller Memorial Trust: mental health policy and guidance
Guidance for schools and colleges on how to write a mental health and wellbeing policy, plus a template and further information as appendices.
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Charlie Waller Memorial Trust: resources for schools, youth settings and families
Evidence-based presentations and training for schools other youth settings, as well as a variety of resources on mental health and wellbeing.
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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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Counselling for school staff
DfE has provided funding to Education Support Partnership to provide online peer-support and telephone supervision for school staff.
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Cyberbullying video
This TEDxTeen Talk video features Trisha Prabhu, a 14-year-old student confronting cyberbullying.
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Department for Education’s workload reduction toolkit
The DfE’s Workload Reduction Toolkit may be of use to teams wishing to do workshops around managing workload for staff who may be feeling overwhelmed by increased pressure.
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Depression: a guide for parents and carers
Depression is a mental health condition that results in persistent feelings of sadness and/or hopelessness. Anyone can be diagnosed with depression. The symptoms are the same for anyone regardless of whether they are autistic or not. Research however suggests that autistic people may be more likely to experience depression than the general population.
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DfE: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education - Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, teachers.
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Disrespect NoBody: teaching resources
Discussion guides and session plans to support the Government’s Disrespect NoBody campaign aimed at preventing abuse in teenage relationships.
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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. There is also a wealth of information and advice on their website covering lots of aspects of family life.
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Early Help and Preventative Services
Information for schools and practitioners on supporting children and young people in Kent.
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Emotional wellbeing tips for the classroom
These seven films are on average 4 minutes long. They provide easy-to-use tips and guidance for teachers who have vulnerable children in their classroom who might be showing signs of a mental health condition or already have a formal diagnosis.
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Example staff and volunteer survey on supporting young people’s wellbeing
An example survey for community organisation staff and volunteers to use on supporting children and young people's wellbeing.
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Example staff wellbeing survey
An example staff wellbeing survey for schools to use.
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Free Child Mental Health and Wellbeing training from the experts
This training from Fegans offers free mental health and wellbeing training for schools
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Free staff training from the Kent Educational Psychology Service
A selection of free remote training sessions through Microsoft Teams for staff including grief and loss and anxiety in the classroom.
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Good Mental Health Matters Resources
Online mental health resources for primary and secondary schools including educational videos, downloadable lesson activities and online quizzes.
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HeadStart Kent 2019/20 reports: outcomes, system change and reach
Click here to access the 2019/20 HeadStart reports: Outcomes of young people supported by HeadStart Kent, system change in school and community approaches to young people’s mental health, and reaching and engaging the target population.
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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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Internet Matters
A one-stop shop resource featuring guides and apps about internet safety.
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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. They work in partnership with you, your child and any other important people in their life.
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Kent Resilience Hub: Parent and Carer pages
Information and resources for parents and carers.
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Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership training
Multi-agency and bespoke training opportunities and e-learning.
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Kooth.com online support and counselling
Free online support and counselling for young people aged 10 - 16 in Kent
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Live Well Kent: six ways to wellbeing
The Wheel of Wellbeing for physical and mental health including body, mind, spirit, people, place and planet.
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Mental health and behaviour in schools
How schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour, including how to create a whole school culture and how to understand the link between mental health and behaviour.
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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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Mental Health Matters
Resources and support to achieve good mental and physical wellbeing.
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Mental health services in Kent for young people flowchart
Visual tool (flowchart) for navigating mental health services in Kent for young people.
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Mentally Healthy Schools: A Whole School Approach
Information, guidance and resources for schools and settings to develop their whole school approach, including young people's voice, staff wellbeing and parent/carer engagement.
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Mentally Healthy Schools: Parent/carer engagement
Parent/carer engagement is important because working together (with mothers, fathers and carers) has been shown to have a promising impact on the wellbeing, attendance, behaviour, sense of school belonging, intellectual development and attainment of children across a range of social and economic backgrounds.
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Mermaids: Information and resources for parents
Mermaids offer lots of information, resources and support for parents of children and young people who may be struggling with their gender identity
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Mermaids: transgender support and information
This website has a number of resources for school and community settings, parents, young people and professionals to support, embrace and celebrate transgender diverse young people.
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Mid-Kent Mind: free online mental health awareness training
This online training module is available for professionals, parents and anyone aged 16+ as a basic introduction to understanding young people's mental health.
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Mind: staff training
Training opportunities, courses and e-learning for staff about mental health.
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Mind: taking care of your staff
Information and advice, resources and training courses to support staff wellbeing in the workplace.
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MindEd Hub
The MindEd hub is for you if you volunteer, work or are studying to work with infants, children, teenagers or adults. MindEd has e-learning applicable across the health, social care, education, criminal justice and community settings. It is aimed at anyone from beginner through to specialist.
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MindEd: Anxiety Disorders session
This PowerPoint session created by MindEd and ACAMH is aimed at more experienced/specialist users and aims to provide learners with a greater understanding of how common anxiety disorders present in children and young people, and how to assess and treat them.
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MindEd: Mindfulness session
This mindfulness session from MindEd aims to give an overview and define what mindfulness is. It looks at the evidence base for it and provides information on further resources and support.
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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 by providing relevant Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL), resources, advice, information and much more to enable staff to meet the needs of all pupils including pupils with learning differences.
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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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NHS: Coping with your teenager
Many parents find their teenager's behaviour challenging. It can be baffling, stressful, hurtful and often worrying. But in most cases it does not mean there is anything more serious going on than the natural process of becoming an adult. The NHS website has some really useful information and support for parents/carers about how to cope with their teenager's challenging behaviour.
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One You Kent
One You Kent provides information and guidance for healthy lifestyle choices with a selection of free apps and support offered via telephone.
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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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Pay It Forward grant scheme
Grant opportunity of up to £1000 for a young people led project to support others' wellbeing.
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Peer Mentoring Toolkit
Free Toolkit for schools and communities to develop Peer Mentoring within their setting including guidance and resources. Suitable for ages 8 - 18.
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PHE: What to do about worry – Year 6 lesson plan
Developed with teachers, this lesson supports pupils to identify the different signs of worry, such as thoughts, feelings, physical signs and actions. An engaging video shares easy actions that pupils can use to help them manage worry.
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Project Salus: staff training
A variety of training opportunities including FRIENDS resilience training, restorative approaches and anti-bullying.
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PSHE Association: Drug and alcohol education
The PSHE Association drug and alcohol schemes of work for key stages 1-4 includes lesson plans and resources for each key stage, with knowledge organisers included as well as a comprehensive teacher guidance document, a briefing on the evidence base underpinning effective drug and alcohol education, and governors' briefing. Interactive PowerPoint lesson plans are also available.
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PSHE Association: guidance for teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing
This guidance aims to help schools to prepare to teach about mental health and emotional wellbeing safely and sensitively.
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PSHE Association: mental health and emotional wellbeing lesson plans
PSHE Association lesson plans and resources for teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing from Key Stage 1 – 4.
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PSHE Association: programme of study for key stages 1-5
The updated PSHE programme of study for 2020. Topics include Relationships, Health Education, and Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing.
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Public Health England document: A Whole School and College Approach
This document sets out key actions that school and college staff can take to embed a whole school approach to promoting emotional health and wellbeing.
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Public Health England report: The Link Between Pupil Health and Wellbeing and Attainment
This briefing draws on evidence to highlight how promoting the health and wellbeing of pupils and students within schools and colleges has the potential to improve their educational outcomes and their health and wellbeing outcomes.
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Pupils’ Voice Guidance Pack
Pupil voice and participation guidance pack.
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Resilience Conversations
There are six areas in our lives where we can promote resilience. Two tools have been developed to assess a young person’s resilience, a Self-Reflection tool and a Resilience Conversation tool.
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Rethink: about mental illness
Information and advice about mental illness.
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Rise Above: teaching resources
Rise Above for Schools from Public Health England provides free PSHE resources that support secondary school teachers when promoting positive health, wellbeing and resilience among young people aged 11 to 16.
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Safe space flyer
Here is a one-page guide giving a brief overview of what safe spaces are and how to develop, create and maintain them.
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Safe space guidance
Guidance on developing safe spaces for young people in school and community settings.
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School mental health and emotional wellbeing policy template
A policy template to support your school to have a collective vision of your whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing.
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School Public Health support for young people
The School Public Health team provide emotional and wellbeing support for young people including a confidential texting service and counselling.
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Self-care top tips for young parents and carers
This Anna Freud booklet booklet offers some simple self-care advice for young parents and carers about the importance of self-care and looking after their own mental health and wellbeing whilst raising children.
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Session plans for working with young people
Here staff can find a variety of session plans and accompanying resources when working with young people. Topics include self-care, online safety, exam stress, mental health and wellbeing and many more!
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Staying safe online
Practical strategies to best support all children and young people online, including those who identify as LGBT.
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Stem4: supporting teenage mental health
Teaching resources for secondary PSHE and mental health apps for young people.
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Stonewall: celebrating diversity through pupil voice in primary schools
This pupil voice guide is packed full of ideas to help you get your students involved in leading work to celebrate difference in your school.
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Stonewall: LGBT support and information
Stonewall can support you to make your school, college or setting LGBT inclusive.
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Stress on the brain
'Stress on the Brain' is a video made by a group of students from New River College (Islington), working with SoapBox Youth Centre. They talk about stress, trauma, the effect on your brain and give tips to help stay calm in stressful situations.
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Suicide Prevention and Awareness Training from Mid-Kent Mind
Mid-Kent Mind are offering free Suicide Prevention and Awareness training sessions to anyone in Kent and Medway that wants to learn how to support other people when they are in crisis. These sessions will be delivered online via ZOOM.
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Supporting young people who self harm
Guidance for working with young people who self harm
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Talents and Interests grant for young people
Up to £500 per young person is available to support them with their hobbies, talents or interests.
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Teen Tips: resources for schools and parents
Teenagers haven’t fundamentally changed but the world in which they live has. With so much uncertainty, it is little wonder that many teens, and those supporting them, are struggling to cope. Teen Tips training and resources are largely delivered via their Wellbeing Hub, which schools and parents access online.
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The Children’s Society: Five Ways to Wellbeing Postcards
The Children's Society have developed five cards with simple ways to wellbeing ideas, developed through research with children. They are free to download and can help pupils to take part in simple activities beneficial to their wellbeing.
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The Diana Award: Anti-Bullying Campaign
Information, resources and peer training opportunities for young people to tackle bullying in school, communities and online.
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The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit
The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit consists of one easy to use ‘Core’ lesson for each year group from reception to year 13 and is based on themes that have been found to be effective in tackling domestic abuse.
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The importance of using correct pronouns for gender identity
A short and informative PowerPoint presentation from the voices and experiences of young people in Kent, about the importance of understanding and using correct gender pronouns.
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The psychology of play to regulate emotions and support wellbeing
The British Psychological Society has produced this video to provide advice for parents and carers on the psychology behind playtime and how it helps children and young people manage their emotions.
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The role of play in supporting learning and promoting wellbeing
This short video from the British Psychological Society considers the role of play in supporting learning and promoting children’s wellbeing as they return to a school environment.
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Time to Change: about mental health
Information about mental health including videos, advice, campaigns and support.
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Time to Change: mental health resources for staff working with young people
Group work, assembly and campaign resources for working with young people about mental health.
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Time to Change: workplace resources
Resources and advice on changing attitudes to mental health in the work place.
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Training opportunities for staff
A variety of virtual training opportunities, workshops and conferences for staff.
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UK Trauma Council: Childhood Trauma and the Brain
A general introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood, like abuse and neglect.
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Whole School Approach and Staff Wellbeing training PowerPoint
A training PowerPoint for staff to use as an introduction to a whole school approach and staff wellbeing.
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Why is it so important to address anxiety?
Many autistic children and adults experience anxiety. It can affect a person psychologically and physically. Constant anxiety can be extremely distressing for autistic people. It can lead to meltdowns, self-harm and depression. It is important to identify what is causing a person’s anxiety and then to take steps to reduce it. Our guides talks about the different ways to manage anxiety.
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Working with children and young people online
A comprehensive guide for staff and practitioners in working with children and young people around the topic of online safety.
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Young people’s voice top tips
A one-page flyer to give brief overview of what student voice is and how to create, develop and maintain it.
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YoungMinds
Mental health advice, support, resources and training for young people, their families, schools and communities.
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Youth Mental Health First Aid via ZOOM
A free two-hour Mental Health Awareness session which looks at what mental health is, and what some of the common mental health problems are.
#DontDoItAlone campaign
New for 2021 - Kooth's #DontDoItAlone campaign including resources and a video with famous faces, to encourage young people to reach out when they are struggling
A whole school approach: how does it help to build the resilience of young people?
HeadStart Kent Evaluation Report (2020) on how a whole school approach can build the resilience of young people.
Activities and resources for working with young people
Here you will find a variety of resources, activities and games to use with young people covering plenty of topics including self-care, mindfulness and mental health.
Anna Freud: advice for parents and carers
Simple advice and guidance to parents and carers of primary aged children about how to make conversations about their child's feelings part of everyday conversations.
Anna Freud: engaging with parents and carers around mental health and wellbeing
A booklet exploring a range of innovative ways that schools can successfully engage with parents and carers around young people's mental health and wellbeing.
Anna Freud: Schools in Mind
Schools in Mind is a free network for school staff providing accessible information and resources that school staff can use to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people.
Anna Freud: staff wellbeing
Anna Freud offer practical guidance about what school staff and senior leaders can do to support their own and their colleagues' wellbeing.
Anna Freud: supporting mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools booklet
This booklet aims to offer practical guidance about what school staff can do to support mental health, and how to help if they are concerned about a child or young person.
Anna Freud: Wellbeing Measurement Framework
A suite of validated wellbeing measurement booklets for primary school, secondary school and college students.
Anti-Bullying Alliance: All Together Programme
A whole-school anti-bullying programme offered free to schools across England including questionnaires, resources and CPD opportunities for staff.
Anti-Bullying Alliance: resources and information
Resources, online training and information on preventing and tackling bullying in schools.
Barnardo’s back to school and transition resources
Two useful leaflets full of activities and resources to allow children to explore their feelings about returning to school after lockdown and transitioning from Year 6 to Year 7
Be Free Positive Relationships
The BeFree programme is for 10–18 year old girls and trans individuals, living in Kent, who are at risk of experiencing unhealthy or abusive relationships.
Beat: Eating Disorders
Around 1.25 million people in the UK suffer from eating disorders, many in secret. They are of all ages, genders and backgrounds – eating disorders do not discriminate. Beat's national helpline exists to encourage and empower people to get help quickly, because we know the sooner someone starts treatment, the greater their chance of recovery.
Bereavement support for children and young people
Information and guidance on how you can help a child or young person who is grieving.
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.
Charlie Waller Memorial Trust: mental health policy and guidance
Guidance for schools and colleges on how to write a mental health and wellbeing policy, plus a template and further information as appendices.
Charlie Waller Memorial Trust: resources for schools, youth settings and families
Evidence-based presentations and training for schools other youth settings, as well as a variety of resources on mental health and wellbeing.
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.
Counselling for school staff
DfE has provided funding to Education Support Partnership to provide online peer-support and telephone supervision for school staff.
Cyberbullying video
This TEDxTeen Talk video features Trisha Prabhu, a 14-year-old student confronting cyberbullying.
Department for Education’s workload reduction toolkit
The DfE’s Workload Reduction Toolkit may be of use to teams wishing to do workshops around managing workload for staff who may be feeling overwhelmed by increased pressure.
Depression: a guide for parents and carers
Depression is a mental health condition that results in persistent feelings of sadness and/or hopelessness. Anyone can be diagnosed with depression. The symptoms are the same for anyone regardless of whether they are autistic or not. Research however suggests that autistic people may be more likely to experience depression than the general population.
DfE: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education - Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, teachers.
Disrespect NoBody: teaching resources
Discussion guides and session plans to support the Government’s Disrespect NoBody campaign aimed at preventing abuse in teenage relationships.
Domestic abuse support
Information, advice and support for victims of domestic abuse, friends and family and perpetrators.
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. There is also a wealth of information and advice on their website covering lots of aspects of family life.
Early Help and Preventative Services
Information for schools and practitioners on supporting children and young people in Kent.
Emotional wellbeing tips for the classroom
These seven films are on average 4 minutes long. They provide easy-to-use tips and guidance for teachers who have vulnerable children in their classroom who might be showing signs of a mental health condition or already have a formal diagnosis.
Example staff and volunteer survey on supporting young people’s wellbeing
An example survey for community organisation staff and volunteers to use on supporting children and young people's wellbeing.
Example staff wellbeing survey
An example staff wellbeing survey for schools to use.
Free Child Mental Health and Wellbeing training from the experts
This training from Fegans offers free mental health and wellbeing training for schools
Free staff training from the Kent Educational Psychology Service
A selection of free remote training sessions through Microsoft Teams for staff including grief and loss and anxiety in the classroom.
Good Mental Health Matters Resources
Online mental health resources for primary and secondary schools including educational videos, downloadable lesson activities and online quizzes.
HeadStart Kent 2019/20 reports: outcomes, system change and reach
Click here to access the 2019/20 HeadStart reports: Outcomes of young people supported by HeadStart Kent, system change in school and community approaches to young people’s mental health, and reaching and engaging the target population.
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.
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.
Internet Matters
A one-stop shop resource featuring guides and apps about internet safety.
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. They work in partnership with you, your child and any other important people in their life.
Kent Resilience Hub: Parent and Carer pages
Information and resources for parents and carers.
Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership training
Multi-agency and bespoke training opportunities and e-learning.
Kooth.com online support and counselling
Free online support and counselling for young people aged 10 - 16 in Kent
Live Well Kent: six ways to wellbeing
The Wheel of Wellbeing for physical and mental health including body, mind, spirit, people, place and planet.
Mental health and behaviour in schools
How schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour, including how to create a whole school culture and how to understand the link between mental health and behaviour.
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.
Mental Health Matters
Resources and support to achieve good mental and physical wellbeing.
Mental health services in Kent for young people flowchart
Visual tool (flowchart) for navigating mental health services in Kent for young people.
Mentally Healthy Schools: A Whole School Approach
Information, guidance and resources for schools and settings to develop their whole school approach, including young people's voice, staff wellbeing and parent/carer engagement.
Mentally Healthy Schools: Parent/carer engagement
Parent/carer engagement is important because working together (with mothers, fathers and carers) has been shown to have a promising impact on the wellbeing, attendance, behaviour, sense of school belonging, intellectual development and attainment of children across a range of social and economic backgrounds.
Mermaids: Information and resources for parents
Mermaids offer lots of information, resources and support for parents of children and young people who may be struggling with their gender identity
Mermaids: transgender support and information
This website has a number of resources for school and community settings, parents, young people and professionals to support, embrace and celebrate transgender diverse young people.
Mid-Kent Mind: free online mental health awareness training
This online training module is available for professionals, parents and anyone aged 16+ as a basic introduction to understanding young people's mental health.
Mind: staff training
Training opportunities, courses and e-learning for staff about mental health.
Mind: taking care of your staff
Information and advice, resources and training courses to support staff wellbeing in the workplace.
MindEd Hub
The MindEd hub is for you if you volunteer, work or are studying to work with infants, children, teenagers or adults. MindEd has e-learning applicable across the health, social care, education, criminal justice and community settings. It is aimed at anyone from beginner through to specialist.
MindEd: Anxiety Disorders session
This PowerPoint session created by MindEd and ACAMH is aimed at more experienced/specialist users and aims to provide learners with a greater understanding of how common anxiety disorders present in children and young people, and how to assess and treat them.
MindEd: Mindfulness session
This mindfulness session from MindEd aims to give an overview and define what mindfulness is. It looks at the evidence base for it and provides information on further resources and support.
nasen: Helping everyone achieve
nasen (National Association for Special Educational Needs) is a charitable membership organisation that supports all education practitioners by providing relevant Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL), resources, advice, information and much more to enable staff to meet the needs of all pupils including pupils with learning differences.
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.
NHS: Coping with your teenager
Many parents find their teenager's behaviour challenging. It can be baffling, stressful, hurtful and often worrying. But in most cases it does not mean there is anything more serious going on than the natural process of becoming an adult. The NHS website has some really useful information and support for parents/carers about how to cope with their teenager's challenging behaviour.
One You Kent
One You Kent provides information and guidance for healthy lifestyle choices with a selection of free apps and support offered via telephone.
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.
Pay It Forward grant scheme
Grant opportunity of up to £1000 for a young people led project to support others' wellbeing.
Peer Mentoring Toolkit
Free Toolkit for schools and communities to develop Peer Mentoring within their setting including guidance and resources. Suitable for ages 8 - 18.
PHE: What to do about worry – Year 6 lesson plan
Developed with teachers, this lesson supports pupils to identify the different signs of worry, such as thoughts, feelings, physical signs and actions. An engaging video shares easy actions that pupils can use to help them manage worry.
Project Salus: staff training
A variety of training opportunities including FRIENDS resilience training, restorative approaches and anti-bullying.
PSHE Association: Drug and alcohol education
The PSHE Association drug and alcohol schemes of work for key stages 1-4 includes lesson plans and resources for each key stage, with knowledge organisers included as well as a comprehensive teacher guidance document, a briefing on the evidence base underpinning effective drug and alcohol education, and governors' briefing. Interactive PowerPoint lesson plans are also available.
PSHE Association: guidance for teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing
This guidance aims to help schools to prepare to teach about mental health and emotional wellbeing safely and sensitively.
PSHE Association: mental health and emotional wellbeing lesson plans
PSHE Association lesson plans and resources for teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing from Key Stage 1 – 4.
PSHE Association: programme of study for key stages 1-5
The updated PSHE programme of study for 2020. Topics include Relationships, Health Education, and Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing.
Public Health England document: A Whole School and College Approach
This document sets out key actions that school and college staff can take to embed a whole school approach to promoting emotional health and wellbeing.
Public Health England report: The Link Between Pupil Health and Wellbeing and Attainment
This briefing draws on evidence to highlight how promoting the health and wellbeing of pupils and students within schools and colleges has the potential to improve their educational outcomes and their health and wellbeing outcomes.
Pupils’ Voice Guidance Pack
Pupil voice and participation guidance pack.
Resilience Conversations
There are six areas in our lives where we can promote resilience. Two tools have been developed to assess a young person’s resilience, a Self-Reflection tool and a Resilience Conversation tool.
Rethink: about mental illness
Information and advice about mental illness.
Rise Above: teaching resources
Rise Above for Schools from Public Health England provides free PSHE resources that support secondary school teachers when promoting positive health, wellbeing and resilience among young people aged 11 to 16.
Safe space flyer
Here is a one-page guide giving a brief overview of what safe spaces are and how to develop, create and maintain them.
Safe space guidance
Guidance on developing safe spaces for young people in school and community settings.
School mental health and emotional wellbeing policy template
A policy template to support your school to have a collective vision of your whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing.
School Public Health support for young people
The School Public Health team provide emotional and wellbeing support for young people including a confidential texting service and counselling.
Self-care top tips for young parents and carers
This Anna Freud booklet booklet offers some simple self-care advice for young parents and carers about the importance of self-care and looking after their own mental health and wellbeing whilst raising children.
Session plans for working with young people
Here staff can find a variety of session plans and accompanying resources when working with young people. Topics include self-care, online safety, exam stress, mental health and wellbeing and many more!
Staying safe online
Practical strategies to best support all children and young people online, including those who identify as LGBT.
Stem4: supporting teenage mental health
Teaching resources for secondary PSHE and mental health apps for young people.
Stonewall: celebrating diversity through pupil voice in primary schools
This pupil voice guide is packed full of ideas to help you get your students involved in leading work to celebrate difference in your school.
Stonewall: LGBT support and information
Stonewall can support you to make your school, college or setting LGBT inclusive.
Stress on the brain
'Stress on the Brain' is a video made by a group of students from New River College (Islington), working with SoapBox Youth Centre. They talk about stress, trauma, the effect on your brain and give tips to help stay calm in stressful situations.
Suicide Prevention and Awareness Training from Mid-Kent Mind
Mid-Kent Mind are offering free Suicide Prevention and Awareness training sessions to anyone in Kent and Medway that wants to learn how to support other people when they are in crisis. These sessions will be delivered online via ZOOM.
Supporting young people who self harm
Guidance for working with young people who self harm
Talents and Interests grant for young people
Up to £500 per young person is available to support them with their hobbies, talents or interests.
Teen Tips: resources for schools and parents
Teenagers haven’t fundamentally changed but the world in which they live has. With so much uncertainty, it is little wonder that many teens, and those supporting them, are struggling to cope. Teen Tips training and resources are largely delivered via their Wellbeing Hub, which schools and parents access online.
The Children’s Society: Five Ways to Wellbeing Postcards
The Children's Society have developed five cards with simple ways to wellbeing ideas, developed through research with children. They are free to download and can help pupils to take part in simple activities beneficial to their wellbeing.
The Diana Award: Anti-Bullying Campaign
Information, resources and peer training opportunities for young people to tackle bullying in school, communities and online.
The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit
The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit consists of one easy to use ‘Core’ lesson for each year group from reception to year 13 and is based on themes that have been found to be effective in tackling domestic abuse.
The importance of using correct pronouns for gender identity
A short and informative PowerPoint presentation from the voices and experiences of young people in Kent, about the importance of understanding and using correct gender pronouns.
The psychology of play to regulate emotions and support wellbeing
The British Psychological Society has produced this video to provide advice for parents and carers on the psychology behind playtime and how it helps children and young people manage their emotions.
The role of play in supporting learning and promoting wellbeing
This short video from the British Psychological Society considers the role of play in supporting learning and promoting children’s wellbeing as they return to a school environment.
Time to Change: about mental health
Information about mental health including videos, advice, campaigns and support.
Time to Change: mental health resources for staff working with young people
Group work, assembly and campaign resources for working with young people about mental health.
Time to Change: workplace resources
Resources and advice on changing attitudes to mental health in the work place.
Training opportunities for staff
A variety of virtual training opportunities, workshops and conferences for staff.
UK Trauma Council: Childhood Trauma and the Brain
A general introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood, like abuse and neglect.
Whole School Approach and Staff Wellbeing training PowerPoint
A training PowerPoint for staff to use as an introduction to a whole school approach and staff wellbeing.
Why is it so important to address anxiety?
Many autistic children and adults experience anxiety. It can affect a person psychologically and physically. Constant anxiety can be extremely distressing for autistic people. It can lead to meltdowns, self-harm and depression. It is important to identify what is causing a person’s anxiety and then to take steps to reduce it. Our guides talks about the different ways to manage anxiety.
Working with children and young people online
A comprehensive guide for staff and practitioners in working with children and young people around the topic of online safety.
Young people’s voice top tips
A one-page flyer to give brief overview of what student voice is and how to create, develop and maintain it.
YoungMinds
Mental health advice, support, resources and training for young people, their families, schools and communities.
Youth Mental Health First Aid via ZOOM
A free two-hour Mental Health Awareness session which looks at what mental health is, and what some of the common mental health problems are.