To nurture the skills of resilience is key to providing young people with the ability to cope with stress, adversity, failure and challenges. Resilience is evident when young people have a greater ability to “bounce back” when faced with difficulties and achieve positive outcomes.
Resilience empowers an individual to recognise that everyone has physical and mental health and that mental health can move between healthy and poor, dependent on an individual’s circumstances. It empowers a person to recognise poor mental health in themselves and others and be aware of support that is available.
It is widely recognised that a child’s emotional health and wellbeing influences their cognitive development and learning, as well as their physical and social health and their mental wellbeing in adulthood.
In an average class of 30 15-year-old pupils:
- three could have a mental disorder
- ten are likely to have witnessed their parents separate
- one could have experienced the death of a parent
- seven are likely to have been bullied
- six may be self-harming
The Department for Education (DfE) recognises that: “in order to help their pupils succeed; schools have a role to play in supporting them to be resilient and mentally healthy”. Moreover schools have a duty to promote the wellbeing of students. DfE also identifies a whole-school approach to promoting good mental health as a protective factor for child and adolescent mental health. Although schools and colleges play a significant and valuable role in helping to promote student emotional health and wellbeing, their contribution should be considered as one element of a wider multi-agency approach.
The Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce recommends that schools assign a lead on mental health issues who would be responsible for linking schools with expertise, identifying issues and making referrals.
Source – DfE
Local Support
Cambridge, Curiosity and Imagination
Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI) believes that curiosity and imagination matter. We think of them as important muscles we need to care for and strengthen. Our work as an arts and wellbeing charity is driven by a vision of an inclusive, revitalised, accessible and creative society that embraces these qualities. Artists with environmental practices are
Read More About Cambridge, Curiosity and ImaginationHEAR – the free to use mental health text service
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough provides HEAR – the free to use mental health text service HEAR 85258 is being funded by NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, in partnership with the national service SHOUT. The free to use text service provides real-time support to people who are struggling with their mental health across the county. When texting
Read More About HEAR – the free to use mental health text serviceKeep Your Head
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS) Partners have refreshed the Keep Your Head website. It continues to provide a central hub of high quality information on mental health and mental health services. It also offers tailored and age-appropriate information for children and young people, adults, professionals and schools on a wide range of
Read More About Keep Your HeadThe Parent Village
The Parent Village is a registered charity which works with schools, local authorities and health bodies to support them with reaching parents and carers to develop shared approaches to supporting children and young people’s mental health. The team deliver this support both remotely and face to face through the following ways: For more information: Visit:
Read More About The Parent VillageYMCA Trinity Group
YMCA has been supporting young people in the UK and across the world for over 150 years. YMCA Trinity Group delivers needs led services to communities across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough & Suffolk. During the last 35 years we have developed extensive expertise in positive mental wellbeing which builds on our world-leading physical health programmes. We support
Read More About YMCA Trinity GroupYOUnited
YOUnited offers help to children and young people with their emotional wellbeing and mental health registered with a GP in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It is available to those up to the age of 25 and offers a range of support including therapies, counselling and guided self-help. Referrals can be made to YOUnited by a GP
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Documents
Key Stage 2
External Links
- Anna Freud
- Beano and Young Minds content for Under 12s
- Better Health – Mental Well Being PHE
- ChildLine – Bullying, abuse, safety & the law
- Keep Your Head Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Mentally Healthy Schools
- MindEd – e-learning to support healthy minds
- My Happy Mind
- PSHE – Mental health and emotional wellbeing pack
- Royal College of Psychiatrists Young people’s mental health
- Time to change – school resources
- Young Minds – School anxiety and refusal
- Young Minds & Beano Lesson Plan