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- 5,4,3,2,1 Mindfulness Activity
- About HeadStart Kent
- HeadStart Kent Updates
- HeadStart Services
- Research and Evaluation
- A whole school approach: how does it help to build the resilience of young people?
- HeadStart Kent 2019/20 year-end report: Reaching and engaging the target population
- HeadStart Kent 2019/20 year-end report: System change in school and community approaches to young people’s mental health
- Qualitative Insight Report Additional Support – Provider and Young Person’s Perspectives
- Qualitative Insight Report Year 2 Early Help and Preventative Services Implementation Interviews
- Qualitative Insight Report Year 2 School Implementation Interviews
- Training Summary Report
- Wellbeing Measurement Framework survey 2020/21
- Year End Report 2019/20: Outcomes of Young People Supported by HeadStart Kent
- Year-end Report 2017/18
- Year-end Report 2018/19
- Young people’s thoughts, feelings and coping strategies report
- Accessibility Statement
- Communities
- Community resilience toolkit
- Community resources
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- Community Whole Setting Approach Resources
- Activities and Learning Opportunities in a community setting
- Ethos and Environment in a community setting
- Identifying Need and Monitoring Impact in a community setting
- Leadership and Management in a community setting
- Staff Development and Wellbeing in a community setting
- Targeted Support and Appropriate Referral in a Community Setting
- Working with Parents and Carers in a community setting
- Young People’s Voice in a community setting
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- Participation opportunities for young people
- Resilience conversations
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- Staff training opportunities and wellbeing tips
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- Emotional Wellbeing and Bereavement
- HeadStart Participation Evaluation Report 2019/20
- Kent Resilience Hub
- COVID-19 Resources
- Support for Parents COVID
- Support for Parents HUB
- Support for Schools
- Emotional wellbeing advice, guidance and support for highly anxious pupils
- Emotional wellbeing information, resources and support services for staff
- Emotional wellbeing support for parents, carers and families
- Emotional wellbeing support for primary school aged children
- Emotional wellbeing support for schools including universal and transition
- Emotional wellbeing support for vulnerable pupils
- Emotional wellbeing support for young people
- Practical and emotional support for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
- Practical and emotional wellbeing support following bereavement
- Support for Young People
- Supporting Parents COVID
- Supporting Staff COVID
- Supporting Young People COVID
- Crisis support cards
- Draw Your Own Solution
- Kooth.com
- Peer mentoring
- Safe spaces
- Session plans & activities
- Activities and resources
- 20 day mental wellbeing challenge
- ABC of self-care
- All about me activity
- Anti-bullying suggestions from Kent young people
- Coping strategies and building resilience activity
- Emotions board game activity
- Finding something special in others activity
- I am uniquely me activity
- Mental health toolkit and resources
- My back to school interview activity
- My balloons of control activity
- Random acts of kindness activity
- Resilience toolkit for young people
- Resources for improving children and young people’s understanding of their wellbeing
- Self-care mind maps
- Stress triggers activity
- Youth mental health first aid kit
- Session plans
- All session plans
- 6 ways to wellbeing session plan
- An Introduction to Talents and Interests session plan
- Anti-Bullying Ambassador training and resources
- Appreciating others and making thank you cards session plan
- Back to school activity with Year 7 session plan
- Body image session plan
- Bullying and cyberbullying session plan
- Celebrities and resilience session plan
- Forming positive relationships session plan
- How does social media affect our mood? Session plan
- Icons and graphics for wellbeing session plan
- Introduction to HeadStart Kent session plan
- Making connections with others session plan
- Mindfulness for primary school children session plan
- My digital footprint session plan
- Pay It Forward training session for young people
- Positive affirmations session plan
- Positive wellness session plan
- Resilience and wellbeing session plan
- Top tips for running virtual sessions with young people
- Wellbeing session for young people: Mindfulness
- Wellbeing session for young people: talents and interests
- Wellbeing session plan
- Wellbeing session plan for young people: Exam Stress
- Wellbeing session plan for young people: Friendships
- Wellbeing session plan for young people: Resilience
- What is mental health? Session plan
- Education session plans
- Emotions and behaviours session plans
- Feeling secure session plans
- Friendships session plans
- Health session plans
- Talents and interests session plans
- All session plans
- Activities and resources
- COVID-19 Resources
- Kent Resilience Hub and MoodSpark Website Evaluation Report
- Parents and Carers
- Practitioners
- Grants
- Mindfulness
- Participation opportunities for young people
- Resources for practitioners
- Services for Young People
- Staff training
- An Introduction to Resilience and Trauma
- Building Resilience
- Community Resilience Toolkit Workshop for Community Organisations
- Free Child Mental Health and Wellbeing training from the experts
- Free Resource the Trainer training course
- Kooth.com workshops for staff
- Navigating the Resilience Hub and MoodSpark websites to support schools
- Resilience Conversation Training
- Wellbeing Toolkit for Parents and Carers webinar series
- Youth Mental Health First Aid
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Lite
- Youth Mental Health First Aid online training opportunities
- Youth Mental Health Online Training
- Staff training opportunities and wellbeing tips
- School toolkit sign-up
- School workers in a school setting
- Schools
- Draw your own Solution schools campaign page
- Grants
- Mindfulness
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- Participation opportunities for young people
- Resources
- School resilience toolkit
- Services for Young People
- Staff training opportunities and wellbeing tips
- Supporting staff
- Supporting young people
- The resilience toolkit
- Site Map
- Square Breathing Activity
- Try Angle Awards
- Wellbeing Toolkit for Parents and Carers
- Working With Parents
Resources
- Early Help and Preventative Services
- Tips for getting cosy at home
- Family Games – quick, easy and fun games to play
- How Not to Get Distracted by Your Phone
- DIY Gift Ideas
- Christmas Wish List
- Mental Health in Schools: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Emotional and Mental Health of Teaching Staff on Students
- Hope Again – Bereavement Support for Young People
- Exclusion from Education: Turning Things Around
- Young Minds: Recognising and Supporting OCD
- Traumatic Bereavement: Free Evidence Based Resources
- ChatHealth
- Children and Young People’s Counselling Service
- SHOUT
- NELFT All Ages Eating Disorder Service
- Kent and Medway Safe Havens
- The Fantastic FRED Experience
- Kent and Medway Mental Wellbeing Information Hub
- The BeYou Project
- Emerge Advocacy Service
- We Are With You: Mind and Body Programme
- Porchlight Adolescent Wellbeing Service PAWS
- Kent Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service
- A parents’ guide to supporting children and young people: ADHD and Autism
- Explaining Mindfulness
- Reconnect Locality Grant Funding and Priorities
- Handling Stress & Building Resilience
- Understanding your child’s sensory needs
- Local Transformation Plan from Kent and Medway CCG
- We all have mental health – Animation and toolkit
- Podcast – PTSD in very young children
- Parenting Smart
- Child behaviour has got worse, say 1 in 5 parents – Place2Be survey
- Anna Freud Centre: Call to Close the Gap in Children’s Mental Health Care
- Refreshed Whole School or College Approach guidance from DfE and PHE
- Senior Mental Health Lead Training
- NCB – Learning from HeadStart Partnerships
- Intensive Mentoring
- CHUMS – Bereavement Support
- Spark UK – Developed by young people
- Parent Online Resilience Tools from HeadStart Kernow
- Resilience Tool for Online Behaivour from HeadStart Kernow
- Every Mind Matters Kent
- Anxiety in Children and Young People: Information for Parents/Carers Webinar
- Anxiety in Children and Young People: Webinar for School Staff
- Kooth Parent and Carer Information Sessions
- Anti-bullying Training Booklet – Created by KYCC
- Anti-Bullying Detox Booklet – Created by KYCC
- HeadStart session plans and resources
- National Youth Agency
- Wellbeing Toolkit for Parents and Carers webinar series
- Wellbeing Toolkit for Parents and Carers
- Every Mind Matters
- Action for Happiness
- Mental Health UK resources
- Bullying Advice – Bullying UK
- Dad info – Because Dads matter!!
- Understanding your child – FREE online courses for anyone caring for a child in Kent.
- SEND Information HUB – Kent’s Local Offer
- Resilience webinar series for parents/carers
- NHS advice for single parents and carers
- The Family lives website gives advice on becoming a single parent, tips on parenting alone and financial support
- Be Free Positive Relationships
- Foundations of Mental Health for Schools: Free training for all staff
- #DontDoItAlone Campaign
- Talents and Interests grant for young people
- Activities and Resources for Working with Young People
- Session plans for working with young people
- Cyber-bullying Video
- Working with children and young people online
- Staying safe online
- NHS: Coping with your teenager
- relate: Coping with disruptive teenagers
- Not Naughty: 10 ways children appear to be acting bad but aren’t
- Refusing to go to School – how can you help your child?
- Young Minds: Supporting your child with school anxiety and refusal
- Getting support with school refusal
- Local advice and support directory
- Information, Advice and Support Kent (IASK)
- Action for Children: Parent Talk
- NHS: Living with ADHD
- Young Minds: Supporting your child with ADHD
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- ADHD Parenting Tips
- ADHD and Behaviour: Tips on How to Support Your Child
- relate: help with family life and parenting
- The restless and excitable child: advice for parents and carers
- Youth Sport Trust: Active parents, active children
- NSPCC: Mental health and parenting
- NHS: Teenage pregnancy support
- KCC support for young parents
- My Kent Family
- Parentkind free resources
- How to help children make friends: 12 evidence-based tips
- What parents can do to support friendships
- Teen Tips: resources for schools and parents
- How parents can help children who feel like they have no friends
- 10 Tips for Parenting Pre-Teens
- How to help your teen choose their school subjects: A checklist for parents
- When your child’s friends become enemies
- Childhood Epilepsy: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- The voice for epilepsy
- Overactivity and poor concentration
- A Guide to Sustaining Attention and Concentration
- Parents guide on gaming
- Handwriting practice for teenagers
- Young Minds: Supporting your child with low mood and depression
- MindEd Hub
- MindEd: Mindfulness session
- MindEd: Anxiety Disorders session
- Stress on the brain
- UK Trauma Council: Childhood Trauma and the Brain
- DfE: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
- Place2Be: Mental health services
- NASEN: helping everyone achieve
- The Children’s Society: Five Ways to Wellbeing Postcards
- Everyday Active Kent: Explore activities
- KCHFT: The Pod children’s therapies
- School Public Health: FAQs for parent
- Down’s Syndrome Association: How do you relax?
- Down’s Syndrome Association: Emotional wellbeing resources
- Mental health Foundation: Ten tips for parents with a child with a learning disability
- Depression: a guide for parents and carers
- Brain in Hand
- Anxiety: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Why is it so important to address anxiety?
- National Autistic Society
- Mencap: Support for parents and carers of children and young people
- Beat: Eating Disorders
- Scope: Support groups for parents
- Mind: Parenting with a mental health problem
- Scope: Managing your stress when caring for your disabled child
- Action for Children: Good mental health
- NHS One You: Every Mind Matters
- Mentally Healthy Schools: Parent/carer engagement
- National Institute of Mental Health: Children and Mental Health
- Our Time: Helping young people affected by parental mental illness
- NHS Talking Therapies
- Samaritans
- Mental Health Foundation: Fundamental facts about mental health (2016)
- Young Minds: Parents survival guide
- Surviving Adolescence: for parents and carers
- Parenting a teenager
- Parenting a teenager: What your teenager needs
- Parenting a teenager: Looking after yourself
- From Tot to Teen: Great home education resources
- NHS: Coping with your teenager
- Emotional wellbeing tips for the classroom
- How to support your child’s wellbeing during Covid
- PSHE Association: Drug and alcohol education
- PHE: What to do about worry – Year 6 lesson plan
- Young people’s voice top tips
- Safe space flyer
- Happiful: Take a moment 4 mind
- Centre for Mental Health: Promoting Resilience at Home
- Selfharm: Alumina
- Young Minds: parents guide to supporting anger
- Mermaids: Information and resources for parents
- Core Skills Resource Book: Supporting Practitioners to Engage with Children and Young People
- HeadStart Kent 2019/20 reports: outcomes, system change and reach
- The Mix: self-harm coping tips and distractions
- Advice and Information for Parents and Carers about Self-harm
- Example staff and volunteer survey on supporting young people’s wellbeing
- Good Mental Health Matters resources
- Exam results stress: advice for parents
- Self-care top tips for young parents and carers
- Gov.uk guidance: What parents and carers need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
- Counselling for School Staff
- Department for Education’s workload reduction toolkit
- Coronavirus: Advice and Guidance for Parents and Carers
- Barnardo’s Back to School and Transition Resources
- The role of play in supporting learning and promoting wellbeing
- Screensavers
- Regulating emotions and supporting wellbeing through play
- Mental Health Matters
- Mental health and behaviour in schools
- iCan programme
- Cruse – Supporting young people after the death of a pupil or teacher
- Bereavement Support for Children and Young People
- The importance of using correct pronouns for gender identity
- One You Kent
- School Public Health support for young people
- Domestic abuse support
- Resilience Conversation Tools
- Live Well Kent
- Rise Above
- Child Bereavement UK
- Cruse – Bereavement Support and Information
- Information for families on Autism and ADHD in children: a support handbook and films
- Internet Matters
- Free mental health e-learning
- Kooth.com online support and counselling
- The Diana Award: Anti-Bullying Campaign
- Anti-Bullying Alliance: All Together Programme
- Anti-Bullying Alliance: Resources and Information
- Safe space guidance
- Anna Freud: Talking Mental Health with Primary School Aged Children for Parents and Carers.
- Anna Freud: Engaging with Parents and Carers Around Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Kent Resilience Hub: Parent and Carer pages
- Anna Freud: Wellbeing Measurement Framework
- Mental health services in Kent for young people flowchart
- Time to Change: workplace resources
- Charlie Waller Memorial Trust: Resources for Schools, Youth Settings and Families
- Rethink: about mental illness
- Example staff wellbeing survey
- Mind: taking care of your staff
- Peer Mentoring Toolkit
- Live Well Kent: six ways to wellbeing
- Stem4: supporting teenage mental health
- Time to Change: about mental health
- Time to Change: mental health resources for staff working with young people
- YoungMinds
- A Whole School Approach: How does it help to build the resilience of young people?
- NHS information on children and young people’s mental health needs during Covid-19
- About Draw Your Own Solution
- Commissioning Training for Young People
- Supporting Young People Through Difficult Times
- What is Resilience?
- Supporting a child that is being trolled online
- Online safety – internet matters
- Understanding self esteem
- The Teenage Brain
- Ways to calm an anxious child
- Falling Letters: Animated Film About Growing up with ADHD
- Back to School: Top Anxiety Triggers for Pupils
- What do young people worry about most
- How to inspire your child to deal with school anxiety
- How to support your child’s mental health
- ADHD and Emotions: What You Need To Know
- How to help teenage girls reframe anxiety and strengthen resilience
- Helping your child to emotionally regulate
- Helping your child with anxiety
- Make your kids emotionally smart
- Supporting young people who self harm
- Resilience Conversations
- Understanding emotions and behaviours
- Health and emotional resilience
- Why encouraging your child’s talents and interests is important
- Friendships and your child’s resilience
- Education and your child’s emotional health
- Feeling secure
- MindEd for families
- YoungMinds parent helpline
- What is resilience
- Seven things parents should know about adolescent behaviour
- Resilience conversation video
- Safe Spaces Poster
- Safe Spaces Guidance
- Peer Mentoring Toolkit
- Mermaids: transgender support and information
- Stonewall: LGBT support and information
- Anna Freud: Schools in Mind
- Anna Freud: Staff Wellbeing
- Project Salus: staff training
- Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership training
- Whole School Approach and Staff Wellbeing Training PowerPoint
- Stonewall: celebrating diversity through pupil voice in primary schools
- Pupils’ Voice Guidance Pack
- Mentally Healthy Schools: A Whole School Approach
- Disrespect NoBody: teaching resources
- Rise Above: teaching resources
- The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit
- PSHE Association: mental health and emotional wellbeing lesson plans
- PSHE Association: guidance for teaching about mental health and emotional wellbeing
- Anna Freud: supporting mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools booklet
- PSHE Association: programme of study for key stages 1-5
- Public Health England report: The Link Between Pupil Health and Wellbeing and Attainment
- School Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Policy Template
News
- New dates! Online workshops to inform changes to children and young people’s mental health services
- Resilience Awards
- Wellbeing for Education Return funded sessions for schools and colleges
- NHS Report Mental Health of Children and Young People in England shows increase in mental health difficulties
- HeadStart Kent awarded additional year’s funding
- Online workshops to inform changes to children and young people’s mental health services
- Free online training opportunities, workshops and conferences for staff
- Entries open for Try Angle Awards 2020-21
- Access to our FREE training!
- Primary School Case Study
- Pay it forward
- Safe Spaces
- Evaluating our progress
- Talents & Interests are Brilliant!
- HeadStart in Dover
- Big Conversation 2019
- Schools Award for Resilience and Emotional Wellbeing
Events
Case Studies
- Sittingbourne Community College: introducing Mindfulness into their setting
- Maidstone and Malling Alternative Provision: their journey through the resilience toolkit
- Oaks Primary Academy: using their student voice through peer mentoring
- Homely Hampers
- Homewood School: using the Resilience Toolkit to develop a whole school approach
- St. Eanswythe’s Primary School: working through the Resilience Toolkit
- Struggling with emotional wellbeing
- Building a Lego club
- Born Again Pond
- Greenfields Primary School: developing their Safe Spaces
- Ashford Oaks Primary School: a whole school approach to wellbeing
- St. Anthony’s School: developing a whole school approach