School staff
School staff
If you have pupils who are struggling with mental health, we can help. We can support to ensure that you have a Whole School Approach to Mental Health established and can provide workshops and direct interventions, as well as staff support and consultations.
What We Help Students With
Our interventions are an hour a week for around 8 weeks. We help with mild-moderate needs, with key focus on low mood, anxiety, and behavioural difficulties depending on whether the child is primary school or secondary/college aged.
How We Can Help You
We have three core functions that focus on helping schools' mental wellbeing. These functions can be summarised as THEWS providing direct interventions with young people and parents; providing support on the Whole School Approach including providing workshops for staff, parents and students; and we meet regularly with school staff to help signpost to the right service and consult to provide advise on how to support young people.
The Whole School Approach is creating a mentally healthy school and having all the staff working together and being committed towards this goal. It involves creating a positive ethos and inclusive culture and working with families to make sure the whole community is welcoming. The goal is to promote good mental health and wellbeing to allow children to thrive.
Referrals
You may already have a young person in mind that you think might benefit from seeing us. You can click the link below to be taken straight to the referral page which includes referral forms.
How to Register Your School's Interest
You can check our lists below to see if your school is working with us already. If not, you can reach out to elft.thews@nhs.net for more information and for an expression of interest form.
Resources
We want you to know what is out there for your school, staff and pupils, so we’ve included some links and resources to National, London, and Tower Hamlet’s based services that may be of interest.
Tower Hamlets work with some apps that your pupils may be interested in. For 7–12-year-old children, they can explore their worries with parent support via the Lumi Nova gaming app, and for young people 13 and over, they can anonymously join the carefully administrated Kooth Community for journaling and wellbeing advice.