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Training

Youth Mental Health First Aider Course/Youth Mental Health Champion Course:

In-depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing

Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues

Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress

Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening

Knowledge to help a young person recover their health by guiding them to further support

Ability to support a young person with a long term mental health issue or disability to thrive

Tools to look after your own mental wellbeing and signpost staff support

Mental Health in Adolescence:

Aims to explore the neuroscience of adolescent mental health and behaviour, deepening participants’ knowledge of developmentally appropriate, healthy behaviours and behaviours of concern. Evidence-informed approaches to best support children and young people’s mental and behaviour will be explored.

Supporting Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing:

Support staff to acknowledge where they are emotionally and in terms of wellbeing

Normalise and validate feelings

Engage in psychoeducation – mental health and resilience

Develop strategies to support themselves in the short and longer-term

Understanding and Developing Resilience:

To understand what resilience is and have an overview of some theories behind it

To recognise what impacts upon wellbeing (risk/protective factors) and the development of resilience

To learn practical ways to build resilience in yourself, your workplace and your pupils

Maintaining Boundaries when working with and supporting young people and their families:

Relationships

How can we support safely and effectively?

What are boundaries, and why set them?

Types of boundaries

Healthy boundaries

Ways of introducing boundaries

Mentally Healthy Schools:

 Understand the difference between mental health and mental illness

Raise awareness of stress, possible causes and signs

Gain insight into the state of mental illness nationally

Be aware of mental illness within the education sector

Recognise the importance of investing in employee mental health

Be aware of strategies that can be used to support this

Recognise the link between mentally healthy schools and mentally healthy pupils

Specific training on Anxiety/Depression/Self-Harm/Eating Disorders

Bespoke training according to area of need

Get in touch

The Pilgrim School, Carrington Drive,
Lincoln, LN6 ODE

enquiries@pilgrim.lincs.sch.uk

01522 682319