Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are an expanding service designed to help support the mental health of children and young people from 5-18 years old in certain schools and colleges across Lincolnshire or who are not on roll with an education setting.
We understand that it is common for children and young people to struggle with their mental health at times and school or college can often be a safe place to talk about these difficulties and get the support needed.
Our teams are made up of trained professionals including Clinical Lead Practitioners, (Education) Mental Health Practitioners and access to Peer Support. We work with education settings to support children and young people to have positive wellbeing and when they are struggling with their mental health. We also work closely with other children and young people's services i.e. CAMHS and Healthy Minds Lincolnshire.
One of our main goals is to provide a variety of training and support to pupils, parent/ carers and education staff. This forms part of our 'Whole School Approach.'
To access our free training offer please use the links within our MHST Newsletter.
What's new?
Awareness days
Here at MHST we are committed to celebrating diversity, increasing awareness, and decreasing stigma around mental health. Therefore, we regularly produce resources for use by our education settings around a variety of topics, that can be linked to our mental health and wellbeing. Keep your eye out for the new resources sent to your setting or speak to your link practitoner to be added to our contact card.
For a calendar detailing religious and key diversity awareness days please explore ‘The Inclusion Calendar.’
Shout-outs
Staff in our education settings work tirelessly to support their students, we wanted to take this opportunity to share some of this hard work!
