Minds Ahead free webinars on mental health in schools and colleges
The award-winning social enterprise Minds Ahead will be hosting a series of free online webinars to provide relevant information to teachers and school leaders to support a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Upcoming webinars
Tuesday 2 November 6pm to 7pm
Young People on the Margins: Priorities for Action in Education and Youth
This webinar will focus on the chapter on mental health in the rich in evidence book 'Young People on the Margins: Priorities for Action in Education and Youth' and will explore the impact of mental health on young people and education more broadly.
Speakers: Alix Robertson, Associate at The Centre for Education & Youth, and Dean Johnstone, Founder and CEO of Minds Ahead.
Tuesday 23 November 11am to noon
Resilience - an introduction to what we can consider as teachers and leaders
This session will look at the concept of resilience and what we can do in the system we work in to support and improve the resilience of our students based on evidence and literature.
Speaker: Naomi Russell, Mental Health Improvement Lead at Minds Ahead
Reserve your seat for this webinar here
December 2021 (date will be confirmed on Minds Ahead website)
Gender and Mental Health - what can we learn and change in our school practice?
This webinar will look at how gender differences may have implications when providing mental health services to children and young people.
Speaker: Claire Sewell, Programme Lead: School Mental Health Specialist at Minds Ahead
What Mind Ahead do to support mental health and wellbeing in schools and colleges?
Minds Ahead offer mental health training in schools and colleges, help local authorities and charities develop mental health strategies and offer bespoke consultancy in their specialist field of primary, secondary and college students’ mental health.
They believe that mental health support also needs to address and respond to the struggles teachers and education staff face at the workplace.
Working in partnership with the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University, Minds Ahead have been successfully delivering postgraduate programmes for school and college staff. All their programmes have been approved by the Department for Education as senior mental health leads training courses to support a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
They have developed the School Mental Health Specialist programme for key practitioners in schools or colleges who support children and young people directly. This school-based postgraduate course has been designed and informed by school leaders, educational experts and mental health professionals.
The next cohort of School Mental Health Specialists starts in September 2022. Find out more here.
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