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- 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
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- Wellbeing Measurement Framework survey 2020/21
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Resources
- Cyberbullying 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
- 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
- Barnardos: See, hear, respond support hub
- 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 UK
- 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
- Resilience Webinar for Parents
- HeadStart Kent 2019/20 reports: outcomes, system change and reach
- The Mix: self-harm coping tips and distractions
- Advice and information for parents about self-harm
- Example staff and volunteer survey on supporting young people’s wellbeing
- Good Mental Health Matters resources
- Suicide Prevention and Awareness Training from Mid-Kent Mind
- Exam results stress: advice for parents
- Free staff training from the Kent Educational Psychology Service
- 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
- The psychology of play to regulate emotions and support wellbeing
- Mental Health Matters
- Early Help and Preventative Services
- Mental health and behaviour in schools
- iCan programme
- Cruse – death of a pupil
- 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
- Good Mental Health Matters
- Live Well Kent
- Rise Above
- Child Bereavement UK
- Cruse – a child’s understanding of death
- Information for families on autism and ADHD in children: a support handbook and films
- Cruse – restoring hope
- Cruse – coping with trauma and loss
- Internet Matters
- Youth Mental Health First Aid via ZOOM
- 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: advice 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
- Charlie Waller Memorial Trust: mental health policy and guidance
- Rethink: about mental illness
- Mind: staff training
- Example staff wellbeing survey
- Mind: taking care of your staff
- Pay It Forward grant scheme
- 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
- Supporting Young People Through Difficult Times
- Activities for Young People to Build Resilience
- What is Resilience?
- Good Mental Health Matters Resources
- Supporting a child that is being trolled online
- Online safety – internet matters
- Understanding self esteem
- The Teenage Brain
- Ways to calm an anxious child
- ADHD: child perspective film
- 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 conversations toolkit 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
- Mid-Kent Mind: free online mental health awareness 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 document: A Whole School and College Approach
- 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
- Reflective Functioning Training on the Adult Attachment Interview
- Reflective Functioning Training on the Parent Development Interview
- Mentalization-Based Treatment for Parents: Reflective Parenting
- Child Attachment Interview Training
- Essi Viding – Development of psychopathology
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
Resource Types
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