Mental Health Leads: Working with Parents, Families and Carers

Leads will learn about:

• the importance of effective engagement with parents, families and carers in the local community, to implement an effective whole school or college approach, and to support the mental health of individual pupils and students.
• what prevents some parents, families and carers from engaging.
• how they can make their school or college feel more accessible.
• a range of strategies for successfully engaging parents, families and carers in mental health,including when relationships are difficult or a parent, carer or child is distressed.

N.B. these are the DfE’s learning descriptors. Some of these are covered in the pathway. Some of these will be covered in live coaching sessions for this participating in our mental health leads training.