Mental Health & Wellbeing

 Mrs Kendall

Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead

 Mrs Brady

Child and Family Support Worker / Deputy DSL

Strong understanding through assessment of children needing additional provision at classroom level:

• meet and greets,
• reward charts,
• small group interventions,
• Mentoring with the Inclusion team
• Additional parental meetings

• Access to school's sensory room 

   

Children needing specialist support will have access to:

• SISS SEMH teacher through referral and parental permission.

• Referral to CAMHs (SOLAR for Solihull, Forward Thinking Birmingham)

• Referral to the School Nurse Team

• Kooth for children aged 11 plus

• ELSA and SEMH focus intervention with our Child and Family and Support Worker

• Lego Based Therapy with our Child and Family Support Worker

• Ordinary Magic SEMH support through referral and parental permission.

• Connected Care Network support through referral and parental permission. 

• Early Help teams and family support through their local authority, through referral and parental permission. 

Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy  

Websites that can offer further support and Guidance: 

• https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/
• Anxiety UK www.anxietyuk.org.uk   
• OCD UK www.ocduk.org  
• Depression Alliance www.depressoinalliance.org
• Eating Disorders www.b-eat.co.uk and www.inourhands.com  
• National Self-Harm Network www.nshn.co.uk www.selfharm.co.uk
• Suicidal thoughts Prevention of young suicide UK – PAPYRUS: www.papyrus-uk.org
• www.youngminds.org.uk champions young people’s mental health and wellbeing 
• www.mind.org.uk advice and support on mental health problems www.minded.org.uk (e-learning)
• www.time-to-change.org.uk tackles the stigma of mental health 
• www.rethink.org challenges attitudes towards mental health