Raising Mental Health Awareness
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Lesson Plans and Practical Tools
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Lesson Plans
- Going Too Far - Extremism and the Law
- Building resilience in schools
- Good Thinking: Digital wellbeing
- NHS Every Mind Matters
- Resource Hub - Now and Beyond
- Building your anti-racist classroom
Useful Organisations
- Health Education Partnership
- Anna Freud national centre for children and families
- Mind charity
- Parents against child exploitation and Girls and Gangs: Abianda
- Barnados: Child sexual exploitation
- Home: Is This OK?
- Maslaha
Campaigns
- Mental health in schools Make it count, Mental Health Foundation
- Heads together information resources and advice
- Don’t Hide Your Mind: Talk About It campaign
- Inner Wings
Childhood Trauma, War and Conflict
The UK Trauma Council have produced a short, animated film for young people experiencing the long-term effects of war and conflict. It highlights the importance of social connections and addressing traumatic memories from the past.
The film is also available in Arabic; Farsi; Hebrew and Ukrainian. You can also select subtitles in Pashto and Tigrinya.
For more information, toolkits and resources, please visit Childhood Trauma, War, Migration and Asylum - UK Trauma Council
Cost of living
- Good thinking guide on cost of living and mental health
- London hub on help with cost of living
- Cost of living support in Barnet
Toolkits and Guides
- Anti-racism and mental health in schools
- Boing Boing Schools mental health guide
- Nip in the Bud: Emotional wellbeing tips for the classroom
- Nip in the Bud: Fact sheet of practical strategies for the classroom
- Nip in the Bud: practical tips for teachers
- Nip in the Bud: Helpful films for teachers
- Teaching about Mental Wellbeing
- Academic resilience framework tool
- YouTube play list for academic resilience
- Mental health and behaviour in schools
- Building resilience
- Improving mental health and wellbeing
- Developing resilience
- Classroom wellbeing toolkit: Simple ways to support secondary students’ mental health
- Mapping educational support for child-on-child abuse and sexual harassment
- 5 a Day on Wellbeing Way
Evidence and News
- Mental health and wellbeing provision in schools
- Mental health programme between schools and NHS
- Rescue and Response project helps hundreds of young Londoners exit County Lines
Mindfulness
- Bangor University – Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice
- Mindfulness in Schools Project (MISP) – research facts on website under ‘The Evidence Base’ plus school case studies
- Full Catastrophe Living (Book) by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Mindfulness – Finding Peace in a Frantic World (Book and CD) Mark Williams and Danny Penman
- Mindfulness in school’s Free taster class lesson
- Sitting still like a frog
- Mindfulness acceptance
- Meditation app
- Meditation Videos for Kids
- Mindfulness 4 U
- Mindfulness stimming script (ODT, 17KB)
- Smiling Mind online course
- MISP Training
- Headspace – free to UK teachers for a year (at time of writing)
- Insight Timer
- Calm
- Breathe
- Free meditations
- Free audios