With decades of experience in education, our practitioners have an extensive knowledge base regarding the nature of childhood and adolescent development and our programmes parallel their developmental stage.
From primary aged children through to students at University, we can offer mental health and wellbeing support packages from transitions, friendships, managing stress and anxiety (exam stress workshops), anger management programmes, wellbeing ambassador programmes through to helping you set up and recruit students to run an anti-bullying programme.
Good mental health and emotional wellbeing is a vital part of a young person’s growth and development, especially as they navigate the challenges of friendships, school, and physical changes into and throughout their teenage years.
Prevention and early intervention are key when it comes to developing good mental health, resilience, and positive coping skills, which is why our Wellbeing Ambassador programme focuses on building a strong foundation, empowering young people to understand good self-care, and look after their own and their peer’s wellbeing at school.
Our Wellbeing Ambassador programme trains young people to have an awareness of the signs of poor mental health and deal with low level issues by supporting each other and improving access to support pathways within the school and beyond. Staff training can further support the project and develop a holistic approach to improving and understanding positive mental health and wellbeing across the school for everyone.
Our project comprises of four strands:
Exam time at school can trigger stress and anxiety for all young people, especially as schools return to usual routines following the Covid-19 pandemic. For many young people, they’re facing exam halls for the first time, or a return to exams after 2 years of alternative assessments.
Our Exam Stress Buster workshops helps young people understand the biology behind stress and anxiety, the thinking and action cycles that keep it going, and ways to cope with the inevitable stress that exam time brings. Through a variety of activities and discussions, we support young people to find practical stress-management strategies that work for them, predict and plan ways to overcome possible barriers to revision, and approach exams with a positive and constructive mindset.
Our workshop is divided into 3 sections, to allow young people the time to try out strategies, apply what they’ve learned and trouble-shoot techniques, ultimately finding long-lasting and effective stress-management that works for them.
During exams time, young people often need support from their parents and carers. It can be challenging to know how to help them manage their revision, exam nerves and workload alongside all the other challenges of teenage life.
Exam Stress for Parent’s Workshop helps parents understand what’s going on for young people suffering from exam anxiety, how to support and prepare them for revision and exams, and how to manage barriers to revision. We explore common challenges and frustrations that parents face when supporting young people with exam stress and provide practical solutions for encouraging motivation and coping skills.
Our workshop helps parents feel prepared and equipped to help their young person build effective study skills and stress-management techniques that work for them.
Finding out that your child is self-harming can be confusing, scary and feel like a shock. Our parent workshop demystifies self-harm by explaining why a child or young person might self-harm, the cycle that can keep it going, and alternative coping strategies that parents can introduce to help their child or young people stop self-harming.
We discuss the most useful ways to respond to and talk about instances of self-harm with your child and explore the fears and worries that you as a parent might face. Our workshop provides long-term alternative coping strategies that can help move children and young people toward recovery, and a bank of self-help resources and helpful contacts for professional support. After attending our workshop, parents report feeling more confident to approach conversations with their child.
Young people spend a lot of time with their teachers and school staff, building positive, trusting relationships, and can sometimes feel comfortable enough to disclose things they need help with. Sometimes this might include talking about experiencing suicidal thoughts.
Our suicidality workshop helps prepare teachers for disclosures about suicidal thoughts, feelings, and plans, so that if the time comes, they feel confident in the most helpful way to respond.
Hearing a child or young person talk about suicide can be scary or shocking, however a helpful response can go a long way to keeping them safe. Our workshop explores the difference between suicidal ideation and intent, how to respond to disclosures of suicidal thoughts and ask questions to determine risk, and ways to support and keep young people safe.
We provide template resources that help plan ways to cope with and respond to suicidal thoughts, and useful contacts for professional support.
We realise how daunting it can be making that first contact and how important it is to find the right person to work with. We are here to help and support you through the process.
First of all, we can help by offering you an initial contact method that you are most comfortable with:
07443 532165 and we can start the process by text
