Anna Freud offers a range of resources, training and clinical support to help schools and colleges become mentally healthy. The resource uses validated tools to understand how staff are feeling about the support systems in school, their own mental wellbeing, and ability to support students. For staff, we offer individual consultations with expert practitioners as well as on-demand training and development videos covering topics such as staff wellbeing and emotionally based school avoidance. We work with students aged 11 to 25 with mild-to-moderate mental health issues – the service aims to prevent mental health problems from escalating – along with help for parents, carers and school staff. Anna Freud offers mental health lead training to help education professionals develop this sustainable whole-school approach (see further information).
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- We have developed an online toolkit to provide further support for schools and commissioners.
- Managers can sometimes be reticent about being in touch, often because they lack confidence or worry about doing or saying the wrong thing.
- Our school packs include everything you need to discuss mental health topics in your school.
- More than one in four children has had trouble sleeping while one in 10 often or always felt lonely during the pandemic, according to one recent study.
- When Sarah Broome was the executive director of Thrive Academy, a statewide public boarding school in Baton Rouge, La., everybody on staff knew when her weekly therapy appointment was because she spoke about it so freely.
- Her research has found that teachers with depression spend less time doing whole-class instruction—likely because it’s more demanding and energy-intensive—and have fewer warm and responsive interactions with students.
93% of participants of our Mental Health Champions Foundation programme said that the course has improved their ability to lead a positive approach to mental health and wellbeing. Place2Think is a confidential support service run by a qualified Place2Be clinician available to all staff working in our partner schools. Below, you can learn more about our mental health interventions for staff in our partner schools. Read more about why the mental health and wellbeing of staff should be a priority to governors. Educational staff have mental health and wellbeing concerns unique to the setting. As school principals you want to encourage students and staff to mind their mental health, so it is important to consider your own self-care.
About Transformation Partners in Health and Care
We know that young people from marginalised communities are often left out of the mental health conversation. When things feel hard, parents and carers are often the first source of support young people turn to. Knowing where to start can be tricky, which is why we have developed the Taking care of teachers hub. To help identify and directly address attendance areas of improvement, we are providing schools with additional AI powered data reports. We know students’ wellbeing issues often have a knock-on effect on you.
Click below to download Children’s Mental Health Week Activities for Secondary phase.
Partnerships to Uplift Communities Schools, or PUC Schools, which serves students in northeast Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley in California, has counseling sessions available for students, teachers, and principals. And school leaders must create a workplace culture where people can be open about mental health, he said. And schools should establish peer-support programs, so some employees learn “how to be an ally or ‘askable’ adult for their colleague to get the Battle over school mental health and SEL support they need,” Shapiro said.
We believe that children should not have to face mental health problems alone. This year, Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week will aim to support the groups and systems surrounding our children. It can have powerful and long-lasting impacts in lots of areas of our lives, including our physical and mental health, education, employment and relationships. Whether you’re a primary school, secondary school, family, community group or workplace, we’ve got activities and resources for you. Sign up to our monthly e-newsletter for campaign updates, mental health advice and opportunities to get involved. We have information, tips and resources for you to feel confident when responding to a young person’s wellbeing needs.
