How can you best support mental health and emotional wellbeing at school? – by young people from the mental health participation group, Download; the East Sussex Youth Cabinet, and with help from Lisa Buttery at boingboing
This short guide includes tips for teachers and school staff schools as recommended by young people. It includes ideas for raising awareness and challenging stigma, promoting positive mental health, and a list of ten things NOT to do, plus a resource section with further sources of support.
Download your copy now.
Make Your Mark Film about Visual Arts Practice for Resilience
This documentary about the project includes footage from the resilience-building arts workshops, the project exhibition showcasing the young people’s art work, and interviews and artists statements from the young people experiencing mental health complexities and /or learning difficulties who participated in the workshops.
Visual Arts Practice for Resilience: A guide for working with young people with complex needs
The aim of this guide is to offer practical advice and ideas that are affordable and accessible, and can be put into practice with groups of young people. As well as showing how you might put resilience theory into practice and facilitate art based activities.
Building resilience through arts resources
An arts for resilience practice guide has been produced by the project team (including young people). It contains instructions on how to conduct a range of practical visual arts activities that we have identified as being resilience promoting.
The Insiders’ Guide parent carer support course
Parenting has got to be one of the hardest jobs there is – and it’s tougher when you have a child with additional needs such as a disability, special educational need, complex health or behaviour issue.
