Mental health training
Included in your partnership with Connect-Ed, we deliver training sessions for school staff, parents/carers, and children.
How can we help?
You can select the training sessions you need to help enhance their skills to identify and support children/young people with mental health difficulties. During these sessions, we teach and share practical, creative strategies to use in school and at home.
Your school staff are ideally placed to identify changes in children/young people and the signs of mental health difficulties developing. Consequently, they can play a vital role in early intervention and supporting children/young people and families to access the care they need. With extra support and training, they can help even more children/young people sooner, especially because the majority of lifetime mental health difficulties begin during school years.
Over 50% of teachers feel they have not received sufficient training to support children experiencing mental health difficulties.
What is the aim of the training sessions?
Each year we provide mental health training for hundreds of staff in Primary and Secondary schools.
This training helps staff by:
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Enhancing their understanding of common mental health issues
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Providing practical strategies to support vulnerable pupils
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Explaining how and when they should refer children to appropriate support services
“The therapists have been essential in providing training on-site to our staff members who deliver pastoral care to pupils throughout the week. This ensures that the strategies and approaches of the therapists extend throughout the school, impacting as many pupils as possible in a consistent and evidence-based manner.”
Claire Robinson-Jones, Headteacher, Marlborough Primary School, Harrow
A bespoke whole school approach
We meet to conduct a whole school assessment to help identify strengths and areas for development within your school.
We develop a tailored programme of training, workshops, and support for your school.
We work in partnership with you to track and evidence the impact of Continued Professional Development (CPD) and school-wide strategies through feedback, overviews of executed strategies, and assessment tools.
Our training principles
