Mental Health of Children and Young People

Description

• We aim to develop our capabilities to help support and help children to maintain good mental health. Initially this would involve training for staff across the schools in the group in Mental Health First Aid. We would also like to put on a series of workshops for parents in different schools to help them support their children and young people. The long term aim would be to have ‘joined up’ thinking across the town and surrounding areas on supporting the mental health of our pupils.

Outcomes

• There will be a wide range of school staff trained and aware of how to identify and support mental health issues.
• Staff will be identified to carry out more in depth training to offer advice across the schools.
• Parents will be more aware of the areas of focus to promote good mental health wellbeing with their children/young people: connect, be active, give to others, keep learning, be mindful