Mental health and emotional wellbeing

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

Useful Organisations

• 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?

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

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
• Good Thinking Toolkit (Odt 246Kb)
• Mapping educational support for child-on-child abuse and sexual harassment
• Eating disorders and passover: a guide for professionals (ODT 1.60MB)

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