Children's Mental Health Week 2022
Children's Mental Health Week is taking place on 7th -13th February 2022. This year's theme is Growing Together.
We will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others to grow.
Place2Be's free resources will help you take part in the week. All of the ideas can be adapted for use in school, for home-schooling, online lessons or independent learning and available through their website HERE
Young Somerset have developed these children's and young people's resources from Place2Be's theme & activities
To celebrate Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week, we’ll be exploring some creative ways to grow emotionally and find ways to help each other grow, take a look and share these resources below -
Childrens mental health week Kooth A4.pdf
A unique collaboration of counselling services for children and young people launches in Somerset!
A newly formed young and dynamic alliance Somerset Children and Young People’s Counselling Alliance launches an exclusive website on Thursday 10th February this year.
Somerset Counselling Youth Access is a website aimed at providing children and young people with information about where and how they can access counselling in the County to best suit their needs.
For further information on this service please visit www.scya.org.uk
We're here to give you advice and support...........
If you're a young person living in Somerset, you may find that being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender, or questioning your sexuality or gender identity can be difficult. This site is for you, have a wee look around. Welcome for LGBTQ+ young people (2bu-somerset.co.uk)
2BU Somerset - Our Stories
This document helps you gain a better understanding of what life is like for LGBT+ young people living in Somerset today - SCC training (canva.com)
Its never too late to build healthy wellbeing habits so lets get going with 2022! This toolkit from the Anna Freud centre offers information, activities and ideas for schools use.
Building healthy habits in 2022 toolkit : Mentally Healthy Schools
Time to Talk - Mental Health Resources for your school
Resources for your school | Time To Change (time-to-change.org.uk)
Here you can See the full set of Action for Happiness posters
Public Health offer a range of free training programmes for Somerset Schools, Colleges and Children & Young People Practitioners including:
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Mental Health First Aid
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Creativity & Play in Relationships
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LIFEbeat
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Emotion Coaching
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Compassionate Mindful Resilience (CMR)
Take a look at our training menu for further details and registration
Somerset children & young people : Health & Wellbeing Training Menu
Young People and Their Mental Health course has been created for young people aged over 14 wanting to know more about mental health.
This course is free to access and might also be of interest to parents, caregivers, teachers and medical professionals.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/young-people-mental-health
Are you a parent or carer who is concerned about the mental health of your child or teenager? Do you just want some hints and tips on parenting?
MindEd for Families has advice and information from trusted experts and will help you to understand what problems occur, what you can do to best support your family, and how to take care of yourself. MindEd for Families is written by a team of specialists and parents, working together. You do not need to register to use these resources.
Public Health have developed this quick guide for young people and families providing signposting to self-help resources and national & local service support.
Mental health support for families and young people
Please share with families through your usual channels and include on your website
LIFEHACKS - for looking after your mental health
'We’re a group of young people who have spent time together talking about mental health and how it affects us. We’ve been thinking about how to help ourselves manage our mental health and how to help our friends when they’re struggling too. So we’ve come up with a set of LifeHacks to help you and your friends to keep mentally healthy!
Somerset children & young people - Health & Wellbeing : New Lifehacks
Somerset Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) webpages. We offer a variety of teams and services for young people aged 0–18 years old who are struggling with their mental health.
Somerset CAMHS - CAMHS - Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (somersetft.nhs.uk)
Helping to save lives and create awareness
