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Get involved with Children's Mental Health Week
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The theme of this year's Children’s Mental Health Week is Express Yourself.
Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.
The free resources will help children and young people to explore what it means to Express Yourself. All of the ideas can be adapted for use in school, for home-schooling, online lessons or independent learning.
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Mental health support services for parents, carers and young people
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Rise is a family of NHS-led services providing emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children and young people in Coventry and Warwickshire. Rise aims to build resilience and empower children and young people (as well as the adults in their lives) to know where to go for help and advice.
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ChatHealth for parents and carers: If you are the parent or carer of a child in school, you can text a school nurse on 07520 619 376 Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.
ChatHealth for young people: If you are 11 to 19 years old you can text a school nurse on 07507 331 525 Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.
You can message outside these times, but you will get a reply during opening hours. All chats are confidential. You can message for advice on all kinds of health issues, including general health, child development, behaviour, toileting advice, emotional wellbeing, sexual health, bullying and healthy eating.
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As a direct response to the COVID-19 crisis the ThinkNinja app has been updated with specific COVID-19 content. This will bring self-help knowledge and skills to children and young people (10-18 years old) who may be experiencing increased anxiety and stress during the crisis.
The new COVID-19 content provides an opportunity to understand everything from fears relating to the virus through to mental strength and coping techniques.
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Mermaids supports transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children and young people until their 20th birthday, as well as their families and professionals involved in their care. Transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children and teens need support and understanding, as well as the freedom to explore their gender identity. Whatever the outcome, Mermaids is committed to helping families navigate the challenges they may face.
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Early Help and Targeted Support Service
The Early Help and Targeted Support Service are providing daily parenting top tips to support families throughout lockdown. This week's top tips focus is supporting children’s mental health and will be available on the Family Information Service Twitter and Facebook
If you require further parenting support, please contact the Family Support Worker duty line on 01926 412412. |
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Time to Talk Day 2021
Time to Talk Day 2021 takes place on Thursday 4 February - join the campaign to start conversations about mental health and help end the stigma.
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Suicide is preventable
The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) is a collaboration of National Health Service trusts, charities, businesses and individuals who are all committed to suicide prevention in the UK and beyond. It is an alliance of people and organisations coming together around one basic principle: Suicide is preventable.
The ZSA is ultimately concerned with improving support for people contemplating suicide by raising awareness of, and promoting, FREE suicide prevention training which is accessible to all.
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An Educational Resource Pack
Warwickshire's Learning and Development Team have produced a fun and educational resource pack developed by leading experts to help inspire home learning for all ages.
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Understand Autism
Are you a parent to a newly diagnosed child or a teenager who is struggling? Do you want to understand their autism and help them understand their autism?
There are 2 facilitator led workshops available to access -
WASP: Warwickshire Autism support programme for children aged 4-12 TASP: Teenage autism support programme for children aged 13-18
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Safer Internet Day is fast approaching! With one week to go, Cyber Safe Warwickshire and the Safer Internet Centre want all parents and carers in Warwickshire to know about this year’s theme of 'An Internet We Trust: exploring reliability in the online world'.
The internet has an amazing range of information and opportunities online, but how do we separate fact from fiction? Through SID 2021 they will look at why inaccurate content exists, where it comes from, and what young people can do in response.
Check out Cyber Safe Warks Facebook and CyberSafeWarks Twitter on Tuesday 9th February as they celebrate Safer Internet Day!
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Five ways to wellbeing
Learning new skills can give you a sense of achievement and confidence. Try something new. Rediscover an old interest. Take on a different responsibility at work. Why not sign up for a cooking course, start learning to play a musical instrument, or figure out how to fix your bike? Set a challenge you will enjoy achieving. Learning new things will make you more confident as well as being fun.
For children, learning plays an important role in social and cognitive development. However, continuing to learn through life can increase self-esteem. Adult learning has a positive effect on wellbeing, satisfaction with life and optimism. The opportunity to engage in work or educational activities may help to lift older people out of depression.
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Dear Life: A suicide prevention website
Dear Life is a suicide prevention website which aims to reach people in Coventry and Warwickshire who are desperately seeking support or anyone who is worried about a loved one or someone they know.
Life is dear, keep hold of it, you are not alone.
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Your baby and child’s health and development
We all have worries and concerns about our baby and child's health and development: we might wonder if we are doing the right thing, and this doesn't stop when our child grows into a teenager. These pages will help you find the information, advice and support you are looking for on a range of common concerns, for example:
- sleep and crying
- healthy start
- emotional health and wellbeing
- stopping smoking
- child safety
- puberty and growing up
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Learn from home with HS2 educational content.
The HS2 Education Programme supports students to develop essential skills through Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) focused projects and activities featuring real world examples from the transport and infrastructure industries.
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Follow the latest advice on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Coronavirus (COVID‑19) is spreading fast. Do not leave your home unless necessary.
1 in 3 people who have the virus have no symptoms, so you could be spreading it without knowing it. For the latest guidance, visit the NHS, Government or Warwickshire County Council websites.
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Keep up-to-date with Warwickshire Family Information Service
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