This course will provide you with an introduction to health and wellbeing, specifically mental wellbeing. You can use it as a standalone course or an overview to help cement your knowledge before considering our more indepth course. For example, the Spot and Support or Meeting the Needs pathways.

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In this course you will consider how to create a culture and ethos in your school which promote respect and values diversity in order to have the best foundations for your mental health strategy to be situated on. You will need to consider how your school’s current policies and priorities can connect with your mental health strategy to ensure it has the maximum potential to be embedded meaningfully and systemically in your school.

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In this short course, we will start to think about the types of support options that are available to adults. This includes our colleagues and other members of our school communities such as parents or carers. We consider signposting in depth and the power of this.

This course has been created to enable you the opportunity to consider how to make effective referrals for children and young people. The course will encompass statutory and non-statutory provision as well as the key things to think about before making referrals.

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This course focuses on practical steps we can take towards developing positive relationships with children (and adults) in school.  We focus in particular on how to build strong, trusting relationships with children who may not have a wealth of positive relationships experience to draw on.  These ideas can be applied on a one to one basis with individuals or across whole classes, departments or schools.

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Particularly in the current context of Covid-19, as the country starts to return to the new normal, we are finding now more than ever that more and more young people are avoiding school for emotional reasons. Throughout this course, we will learn what emotionally based school avoidance is and is not. We will also consider what we can do to support young people to get them back into school and staying in school. 

We will cover the mental health challenges and needs of BAME children and young people. To do this, we will consider the mental health context and consider strategies for supporting them both inside and outside of school.   

We will cover the mental health challenges and needs of this vulnerable group of children and young people as well as think about how we can work with their families. The strategies we will cover will work alongside your safeguarding policies and procedures.  

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During this course, you will work through a series of modules around the mental health needs of children who are LGBTQ+, the challenges they face and what we can do to meet their needs both at home and in school.  

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