We have created this page because mental health and well-being of children, staff and parents/carers is so very important to us – especially during current times.
Supporting Children to Learn at Home
The Behaviour Support Service have produced a Distance Learning Support leaflet with lots of advice & help for parents while children are at home. The document is on our website and Facebook page.
At Front Street we work closely with a team of professionals who can provide guidance and support for mental health and well-being concerns. This team of people are available to support our children and their parents/carers. They have a website which has may useful activities and links to other support agencies.
- RISE North East – Mental Health Support
- Rise Team Leaflet November update
Here are a collection of links, resources and webpages that you can visit for support with mental health and well-being. If you need any more help or support, then you can always talk to US.
- Coronavirus, Mental Health and Well-Being Resource Pack
- Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
- Childline Information – This link will take you to a selection of games which will help children learn to cope with their feelings and also learn how to relax
- Ways to Wellbeing – Children’s North East offer free support to parents, carers and professionals who are finding it difficult to understand children’s mental health. Ways to Wellbeing is a relatively new, exciting offer which has just started rolling out across Newcastle and Gateshead and as mentioned, is completely free. Ways To Wellbeing can deliver training to Parents, Care Givers and Professionals around adolescent brain development, Children and Young People’s mental health and Communication.
There are no thresholds for those who would like to participate and they have a very easy to use online referral pathway, which you can see here:
https://newpip.children-ne.org.uk/playful-lives-and-parenting-programmes
I appreciate everyone’s time is precious, but if you feel anyone you know may benefit from this completely free offer, please contact Linzi Winn on [email protected].
Stories to help with Mental Well-Being
Activities
- Relax like a cat
- How to do a standing Hook up – a technique used to help calm children and settle their bodies.
Information from Gateshead Council:
* A guidance document for parents and children about stress and anxiety
Parent Support Information
Attachments
- Distance Learning support leaflet (55 kB)
- good-days-in-unusual-times-book (6 MB)
- STAYING_HOME_medium-res (11 MB)
- relax like a cat (3 MB)
- anxiety and worries advice and info for schools (201 kB)
- Ways to Wellbeing (3 MB)
- Parent Support line information poster (254 kB)
- Rise Team Leaflet (2 MB)
