Support for professionals
Take a look at the support available for professionals to help with children and young people’s mental health:
- bitesize webinars
- getting help poster
- emotional wellbeing and mental health county learning events
- Kent and Medway Lived Experience Engagement and Employment Framework
- school programmes
- self-harm prevention advice
- THRIVE VCSE competency framework
- whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing
- resources.
Bitesize webinars
The NHS Kent and Medway Children’s and Maternity Commissioning Team have developed a number of videos offering an introduction to various topics, including:
- managing suicidal ideation and self-harm
- eating disorders and refeeding syndrome
- sexuality and gender identity
- emotional dysregulation/emerging personality disorder
- approved mental health practitioner role and mental health assessments
- needs of looked after children and unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- suspected or diagnosed traits of Autism and ADHD
- provider collaborative tier 4 bed training.
Getting help poster
Download the getting help poster
Emotional wellbeing and mental health county learning events
Learning events focussing on particular emerging or identified needs, presented by subject experts.
The sessions also give opportunities to share practice and problem solve.
To join, email cypt@medway.gov.uk.
Previous sessions have included:
- functional neurological symptoms (FNS)
- the role of the All Age Eating Disorders Service (AAEDs) in Kent and Medway
- understanding Anxiety with young people
- understanding worries and fears in childhood for educational professionals
- the importance of sleep for young people
- supporting people who self-harm
- understanding and supporting young people experiencing suicidal ideation in educational settings
- impact of social media on mental health and wellbeing
- staying well in the teaching profession
- transition within schools.
Kent and Medway Lived Experience Engagement and Employment Framework
The framework has been developed to support inclusion of lived experience in our commissioning, delivery and review of services.
View more information about the Lived Experience Engagement and Employment Framework.
School programmes
These programmes cover a range of topics, including:
- children and young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing
- personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education
- relationship and sex education (RSE)
- additional support available for Medway schools.
Find out more about school programmes.
Self-harm prevention advice
The updated guidance supports a change in practice to ensure that children, young people, and their families are supported.
Visit the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System website to find out more.
THRIVE VCSE competency framework
A competency framework has been developed for the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector and has been aligned with the THRIVE framework for system change.
This provides a tool to consider skills, knowledge, attributes and abilities to deliver effective performance when supporting young people.
View the Kent and Medway VCSE competency framework.
Whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing
The government’s Plan for Change aims to break down barriers to opportunities. A key element of this plan is to improve support for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing in schools. The government has developed resources to help you develop a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Department for Education (DfE) funded mental health lead training will help you improve your school or college approach to promoting and supporting mental health and wellbeing.
A grant to access this training for your mental health leads is available for all state schools and colleges in England.
This training helps schools to plan or improve their whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Find out more about DfE funded mental health lead training.
Resources
A resource hub is available to support you to embed and sustain your whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
It has been updated with new, evidence-based resources for this academic year.
See the mental health lead resource hub.
Support toolkits
You can use the targeted mental wellbeing support toolkit to help you develop and provide effective in-school or in-college targeted support.
See the targeted mental wellbeing support toolkit.
You can also use the whole school and college approach (WSCA) Measurement Toolkit for educational settings.
View the WSCA Measurement Toolkit.
Resources for teachers, parents and carers
Visit the resource page for teachers, parents and carers to support children and young people experiencing difficulties with mental wellbeing and regular school or college attendance.