Training for professionals

An educational psychology led intervention for promoting the emotional wellbeing of children and young people.  Training focuses on the following areas of needs; self-esteem, managing difficult emotions, friendship and social skills, loss and bereavement, emotions.  It also covers a range of interventions such as social and therapeutic stories, cognitive behavioural approaches, motivational interviewing. 

Upon completion of the 5 training days the ELSAs will be able to develop and deliver individualised and/or group support programmes to meet the emotional needs of children and young people.

Email: CAD5to19@havering.gov.uk

Cost: £200 per delegate

Video Training for Mental Health, CAD 5-19 service

Video training including:

• Supporting Young People with Emotional Regulation  Difficulties
• Supporting Young People with Mental Health Needs
• Supporting Young People with Social Communication Difficulties

Training videos include a great deal of practical and freely available strategies that could easily be implemented in your school or classroom

Videos can be found at -https://familyserviceshub.havering.gov.uk/kb5/havering/directory/advice.page?id=oWDHqbLjTE8

Programme for schools and young people provides evidence-based presentations and training sessions that motivate, build confidence, inform and offer practical ideas and tools that can easily be put into practice.

Talks and training sessions can be run for small or large groups and can last from 90 minutes to a whole day, depending on your requirements.

Cost: Free (donations welcome)

Website for more information -  https://www.charliewaller.org/what-we-offer/schools/schools-training

Kooth delivers a range of training and webinar for schools about mental health and wellbeing in young people. Contact the local engagement lead for Havering for more information on resources and engagement opportunities - aaguila@kooth.com

This resource has been developed as an unexpected yet welcome output from the production of the School Nursing Toolkit: ‘Eating Disorders Can Impact Anybody’.

Can be found at - https://saphna.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Eating-Disorders-Resource-for-Educational-Settings.pdf

The course is developed to enhance professionals' understanding of children's mental health and introduces approaches that foster positive wellbeing in schools and communities.

Email: schools@place2be.org.uk 

Website for more information - https://www.place2be.org.uk/foundation

Cost: Free

Suicide Prevention Courses, North East London Health & Care Partnership

Funded courses available including:

• Suicide First Aid Lite Youth
• Mental Health First Aid Youth

Website for more information - https://nelsuicidepreventiontraining.co.uk/courses/

PAPYRUS offers a range of suicide prevention training for professionals. This includes:

• Suicide Prevention – Awareness, Resource, Knowledge (SP-ARK) (free)
• Suicide Prevention – Overview Tutorial (SP-OT)
• Suicide Prevention – Explore, Ask, Keep-Safe (SP-EAK)
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Website for more information - https://www.papyrus-uk.org/

The training gives a flexible approach to an organisation being better equipped to recognise and identify children and young people suffering from, developing or at risk of mental ill health and its links to behaviour and safeguarding.  The training provides knowledge, resources and ideas to be used straight away in any setting without increasing workload or stress on those staff attending.

Upon completion, delegates will be able to:

- Create plans and resources that support Children and Young Peoples Mental Health & Wellbeing:

- Leave the training with a Mental Health and Wellbeing Development Plan for your setting

- Have a clear structure of what you are trying to achieve and provide ideas and resources of how you can achieve them

- Access templates for behavioural plans and reviewing systems which can be put straight into your setting

- Gain ideas and resources for early intervention, lessons and projects

- Produce a Mental Health Action Plan

- Produce a Wellbeing Action Plan

- Identify a clear pathway to make a CAMHS (CYPMHS) referral

- Access a list of helpful organisations with resources to support your setting

Website for more information - https://crusaiderfirstaid.com/first-aid-courses

Team Teach is an accredited training in positive handling strategies through a whole school approach, which supports your behaviour policy and keeps staff and children safe. Whilst also a behaviour management training, with the focus on SEMH and understanding what drives behaviour in young people.     

Email: behaviour@havering.gov.uk

Health Education England is supporting four, stand alone, bite-sized learning guides on the Crisis Tools platform. These are delivered by young people and based on their lived experiences of crisis support and covers:

1. What we need you to know

2. How to start the conversation

3. So you want to talk about risk?

4. How to wrap things up

Website for more information - https://crisistools.org.uk/guides/

This helps ensure that everyone around a child and young person who has been bereaved and affected by suicide, knows how to respond and support them incl. parents & schools.

Website for the toolkit - https://suicidebereavementuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Walk-With-Us-Toolkit.pdf

Online modules in suicide bereavement training are offered at both Level 1 and Level 2.

Level 1 – is for those with no knowledge, a basic understanding of postvention or have an interest in a specific module

1. Suicide Bereavement & Language
2. Talking with Children and Young People When There Has Been a Suicide
3. Introduction to Post-Traumatic Growth

Level 2 – is more specialised (e.g. working with therapeutic tools). NB: appropriate qualifications required to attend the following module

Website for more information - https://suicidebereavementuk.com/online-modules/