Healthy Minds Lincolnshire (HML) have created this information hub to provide school staff with additional resources to support young people with their emotional wellbeing.
For more inforation on Healthy Minds Lincolnshire and how to refer a young person please visit our professionals information page. Should you have any concerns regarding a young person's emotional wellbeing, please contact the Here4You Line on 0800 234 63 42.
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Education Toolkit for Professionals
We have created a Toolkit for education staff that explores how to help young people get the right support and coping skills to resolve their challenges. Education staff are ideally placed to listen to young people and identify emotional wellbeing problems, offer non-stigmatising advice and guidance, be positive adult role models and know when to refer for specialist support.
Find out more on how to do this by exploring the Education Toolkit webpage.
Intervention Toolkit for Professionals
Healthy Minds Lincolnshire have created a toolkit for professionals and education staff to support them in providing low level evidence-based emotional wellbeing interventions within school. The toolkit explores a variety of emotional wellbeing concerns and how these may present in children and young people.
Within this toolkit you will find strategies for you to use with children and young people around: low mood, anxiety, self-esteem and anger.
The toolkit talks you through how to utilise the information packs below.
Click to download Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Intervention Toolkit for Professionals.
Using a Graded Approach
Anxiety can feel overwhelming and the natural urge to avoid the feared situation can stop people doing things they would otherwise enjoy or would benefit from. This pre-recorded package explores how to support young people to build a graded approach to facing their fears, the example we use in this session is supporting a child back to school, however, these steps would work with other safe but feared situations.
Click to play the 'Graded Approach' presentation
Behaviour and Mental Health in Schools
The Behaviour and Mental Health in Schools Inquiry was launched in 2022, with support from the AIM Foundation. The inquiry aimed to explore the links between behaviour and mental health, how school behaviour policies and practices impact the mental health of children and their families, and to understand what can be done to help schools to better support behaviour, mental health, and wellbeing. They have developed a report to findings from the inquiry and set out recommendations for change. These can all be found in the ‘Behaviour and Mental Health in Schools’ report.
Information Packs
Healthy Minds Lincolnshire have created information packs on a variety of emotional wellbeing issues. These are for school staff to talk through with children, young people and their parents/carers. These information packs aim to provide education on the emotional wellbeing concern and brief self-help strategies that you can support the young person and their parent/carer to implement.
Children and young people’s services have worked collaboratively to create a bank of resources that can be used in a PSHE lessons focusing on Body image.
The Good Childhood Report (2021) has found that an estimated 1/8 boys are unhappy with how they look and 1/7 girls feeling pressure to look good. The Body Image Information Pack contains a mixture of lesson plans, videos, information, and webpages to help promote positive body image in PSHE lessons.
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| folder icon | Anger | ||
| folder icon | Low Mood | ||
| folder icon | Anxiety and Worry | ||
| folder icon | Emotional Wellbeing | ||
| folder icon | Self-Esteem | ||
| folder icon | Strategies | ||
| folder icon | Grief and Loss |
Guide to Supporting your Emotional Wellbeing
Healthy Minds Lincolnshire have created a ‘Guide to Supporting your Emotional Wellbeing for Professionals’ package to support your own emotional wellbeing. Within this guide we will explore the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ where we will share evidence-based ideas that are applicable to people from all walks of life.
We hope you find this package a helpful start to understanding your own wellbeing needs, as well as some tips on how you can care for and improve your wellbeing.
Click to play the Guide to Supporting your Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit.
