Supporting children and young people’s mental health: A guide for schools using a resilience based approach – Angie Hart, Anne Rathbone, Claire Stubbs, Mary Hinton, Lisa Buttery, Becky Heaver, Simon Duncan & Victoria Spencer-Hughes
Supporting children and young people’s mental health is a research-based guide created for any member of school staff who is concerned about a child or young person’s mental health and wellbeing.
Supporting children and young people’s mental health during Covid-19 pandemic: A supplementary section to ‘Supporting children and young people’s mental health’ – Vicki Dunham and Gabrielle Rowles
In addition to developing a school’s guide for supporting children and young people’s mental health we have put together a supplementary Covid-19 guide in recognition that the pandemic has brought additional challenges regarding emotional wellbeing and mental health. The guides support schools to respond resiliently and support the mental health and wellbeing of everyone at a time when it is more important than ever that we take a whole school approach. This involves saturating the environment with resilience building opportunities and involving everyone in the process of rebuilding our education. One of the main tools that accompanies our whole school approach is the Resilience Framework, and the guide suggests additional considerations when using the Resilience Framework at this challenging time.
The co-authors of these Guides have drawn on and been informed by a range of collaborators including the Resilience Revolution research partnership, Harvey Hill (Boingboing volunteer), East Sussex Youth Cabinet members and East Sussex Schools Mental Health Working Group. The Guides have been compiled and published with support from Stephen Donnelly, Emily Gagnon, Becky Heaver and Caroline Taylor-Beswick.
Download your free copy of the guide for Supporting children and young people’s mental health
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This video has been created to complement the Supporting children and young people’s mental health guide.
Submissions of evidence: Focus on accessibility
This page presents a selection of our submissions of evidence with a focus on those which have considered accessibility.
The Academic Resilience Approach
Our resources help any school establish systems to build ‘resilience approaches’ that support disadvantaged pupils over time through a whole school approach. Benefitting all pupils and increasing academic resilience, the ARA helps everyone in the school community play a part.
Health Inequalities: Addressing the State of the Nation – Submission of evidence
In this submission to The House of Lords a group of academics, students, practitioners, parents/carers and young people working as and with disadvantaged communities share their thoughts on whether progress has been made by Government in its ambition to improve children and young people’s mental health provision.
Academic Resilience resources directory
Here you can download the Academic Resilience Approach resources to help any school establish systems to build ‘resilience approaches’ that support disadvantaged pupils over time through a whole school approach. All the Academic Resilience Approach resources are free to download.
Resilience Framework for Children and Young People
This is the classic Resilience Framework for children and young people. The Framework summarises a set of ideas and practices that promote resilience. To create it we distilled what the resilience research base said into a handy table that sets out 42 resilient moves that can be made to support children and young people’s resilience. Available in multiple languages.
Resilience Framework Co-produced with Children in Blackpool
The Resilience Framework for Primary School children was co-produced by the Resilience Committee at Marton Primary School, Blackpool. The Marton Primary School children learned some valuable resilience and technological skills during the process, which involved rewording some of the items in a more meaningful way for the children, and we think it looks fab! Also available in Danish, German and Polish.
Blackpool Co-produced Family Resilience Framework
A group of parents and carers from Blackpool, known as the ‘Parents of the Revolution’, have co-produced a family version of the Resilience Framework as part of Blackpool’s town-wide Resilience Revolution. You can also download a one-page version that just contains the Framework or a 2-page version with a short description and some suggestions.
Family Framework Co-produced with Newport Mind
The Family Resilience Framework was designed to support members of the wider family (parents, siblings, carers etc.) and was developed by Rhian Adams, Tiffany Bales, Laura Brown and Sarah Henderson from Newport Mind, with the support of the participants of the Newport Mind Community of Practice. Also available in Italian, Portugese and Spanish.
Resilience Framework for Adults
The Resilience Framework for Adults applies ideas from the resilience evidence base to adult mental health. The adult Framework was developed as part of Josh Cameron’s PhD research into the work-related needs and experiences of people recovering from mental health problems. Also available in French and German.
