MHC-F social toolkit – August 21 update2
Education Scotland has recently endorsed The Resilience & Wellbeing Webinar Series for Educators, offered by I-heart. The series supports participants to uncover their own inbuilt capacity for mental health and wellbeing thus enhancing their capacity and potential to deal more effectively with personal and professional challenges and be more impactful in their role. Find out more.
To see the full range of endorsed programmes, including offers from Apple, Microsoft, Connect, Place2Be and Google for Education, among many others, please visit the Programmes area of the PLL website.
Bereavement training by Winston’s Wish. You can find out more about them and register to access the courses here: winstonswish.org/bereavement-training-courses-schools.
NHS Education Scotland : National Trauma Training Framework This online module is designed for staff who want to learn more and develop their trauma skilled practice. The module is designed to:
- Increase learners’ understanding of traumatic events and the different ways that people can be affected by them and
- Help learners recognise where the impact of trauma might influence their work with people affected by trauma
There are five learning units plus assessment, and the module is designed to take 1-2 hours to complete.
The Mental Health Foundation Scotland, Digital Bricks Learning and Children’s Health Scotland have created a Professional Learning Resource for Scottish Government in Mental Health and Wellbeing. It has been designed for all staff working in schools across Scotland. It is open access and available to anyone who may find it of benefit.
The resource takes a whole school approach centred around prevention and early intervention to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for everyone in the school community. It aims to provide school staff with knowledge and understanding of mental health and wellbeing in schools and a range of opportunities to learn about experiences and advice from practitioners and young people.
There are four main sections split into bitesize topics. The core content should take around 6-7 hours to complete and there are suggestions for further learning. Learners can move through topics at their own time and pace in any order.
Understanding Self Harm: An introductory module for people who have no previous training in this area.
NES COVID-19 Psychological First Aid: a module for anyone delivering health or social care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
NHSGGC Mental Health Improvement Team: have pulled together a range of free e-learning opportunities across the life course.
‘MindEd’
Is a free educational resource on children and young people’s mental health for all adults.
MindEd https://www.minded.org.uk/
About Mental Health
‘We all have mental health’ is an introduction for teachers to introduce mental health; equip individuals with the skills and knowledge to recognise and respond to a pupil who is experiencing a mental health problem; and lead a conversation about positive mental health.
https://www.samh.org.uk/about-mentalhealth/elearning-for-teachers
Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA)
Training enables individuals to respond to a mental health problem or feelings of distress in others.
e-mail: nhs-healthscotland-SMHFA@nhs.net
SMHFA: Young people (SMHFA:YP)
Blended training course for adults who support young people aged 11-17 by giving initial help in a crisis situation and guiding them to appropriate sources of help.
Mentally Healthy Workplaces
‘Mentally healthy workplaces’ training is for anyone who wants to learn more about mental health in the workplace. Create an account via the link below which will allow you to search for the online training plus other e-learning modules.
https://elearning.healthscotland.com/login/index.php
Self Harm Lifelines
‘Self-harm lifelines’ training will give you an overview of the area of self-harm and how those who do self-harm can be supported.
http://www.selfharmlifelines.org.uk/register.html
Save a Life
‘Save a life’ training will give an overview of the area of suicide and how to support people who are at risk.
https://www.zerosuicidealliance.com/
Future Learn
A wide selection of online training to learn about mental health, mental health problems, or develop your career in mental health with online mental health courses and psychology courses.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/categories/healthand-psychology-courses/psychology-and-mentalhealth
Mindfulness Course
Join our free online mindfulness course. Guided by experts, you can dip in and study anytime. https://on.abdn.ac.uk/discover/free-mindfulness-course/ on.abdn.ac.uk
