Anna Freud is a leading mental health charity and their SCESS programme is being utilised to support our students, parents, carers, families and school staff with their mental health and to make positive choices. Their offer is detailed below:

Young Person Support Offers

During the 6-8 sessions with a practitioner, young people have a space to voice how they are feeling and learn strategies to look after their own mental health. We work with young people to identify key goals they would like to achieve to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. We use a CBT-informed, guided self-help model to empower young people to explore what works for them. Please find our posters attached.

School/College staff can refer young people aged 11-15 via a school's portal. Please call the school to discuss support for your child. 

Young people aged 16-25 can self-refer here.

Single Session Consultation 16-25

Sometimes just one session of support is needed to help a young person work through a particular worry such as exam stress, friendship troubles or a period of change. This solutions-focused session empowers young people to put in place strategies to support their wellbeing and mental health. Please find our posters attached.

Young people aged 16-25 can self-refer here.

Young People Webinars

We have a wide range of videos for young people to watch as and when they need them. The topics focus on key areas of mental health and wellbeing, and many have a focus on increasing self-awareness and expressing emotion. We have attached a guide to this email, which can also be found in the resource section of your portal: please download and share these resources with young people, and their parents and carers.

Here are just a few of our young people webinars:

Parent and Carer Webinars

We would like to invite you to attend our webinar series specially tailored for parents and carers of adolescents. The topics have been chosen to reflect core developmental processes in adolescence and common difficulties parents can struggle with. The content is psychoeducational, strategy-based and solution-focused. The webinars will cover the following topics:

• How to support your young person with low mood

• Anxiety in adolescence - how can parents and carers help?

• Emotionally based school non-attendance (EBSNA) - practical tips and strategies to support your young person

• Understanding the impact of bullying on a young person’s mental health - practical strategies to help you support your young person to get through their experience and feel okay again

• Adolescent self-harm - how to make sense of it and when to seek support • Supporting your young person through exam time

Plus, many more!

Click this link to access our Parent and Carer webinars for FREE:  file:///W:/Downloads/Live%20parent%20and%20carer%20webinars%20Spring%20term.pdf