Tag Archives: mental health

Mental Health Champions – Foundation programme – free training


This online children’s mental health training course is developed from work in schools, enhances professionals’ understanding of children’s mental health and introduces approaches that foster positive wellbeing in schools and communities.

The course free to qualified teachers and school-based staff in the UK.

www.place2be.org.uk/our-services/services-for-schools/mental-health-champions-foundation-programme/

Lucy’s in Lockdown

Lucy is like many other children in the world right now: in quarantine with her family.

Her hair is blue, but this time she knows why.

This FREE eBook is designed to help children realise they’re not alone in the current conditions with Covid-19, to help them understand it’s temporary and to help them express how they’re feeling.

It’s “okay, sometimes, to have a blue day.”

Lucy’s Blue Day

Lucy’s Blue Day

by Chris Duke

A tale about a little girl called Lucy who wakes up with blue hairband she doesn’t know why?! She soon learns that it is #OkNotToBeOk.

“What a charming book that we are sure will help enormously”. Stephen Fry

“Such a clever, common sense and totally relatable way to talk about mental health”. Lorraine Kelly

You can order from www.lucysblueday.com

 

Healthier Minds – Talking about Covid-19

Our fantastic Ed Psych team have added a new section to the HealthiER Minds site: Talking about Covid-19.

Here you can find information for:

Healthier Minds

HealthiER Minds, East Renfrewshire’s guide to promote the mental wellbeing of our children and young people.

Our aim is to help staff and parents find the information you need to develop children and young people’s talents and abilities in a way that will support them to meet life’s common challenges, develop their resilience, and have healthier minds as a result.

 

 

Poverty: Our hidden shame?

To explore the impact of poverty in local communities, Glasgow City HSCP South Health Improvement Team, Plantation Productions, The Gal Gael Trust and Oxfam Scotland worked in partnership with the young people at Create Crew to deliver a youth-led participatory action research project. The result of the project was a youth-led documentary film “Poverty: Our Hidden Shame? which was short-listed at BAFTA for the AHRC Inspiration Award 2016.

To support the film a resource pack has since been developed by adapting sessions from the Health Issues in the Community training programme. The new resource encourages learners to explore further some of the issues raised in the film such as: what is poverty, who’s in poverty, beliefs about poverty, poverty and understanding inequality by using participative exercises, group discussions and digital approaches.

Download resource here.