Mental health conference and resources launch - 30th November 2017

The Children and Young People’s Mental Health Conference on 30 November was attended by many representatives from schools and other organisations.

As promised by the organisers we are able to share with you the slides which all speakers used on the day along with some of the workshop presentations from the afternoon and hope that you will find these a useful reference.

These include:

• Introduction and key note presentations
• Anxiety and stress workshop presentation
• NELFT/EWHMS workshop presentation
• Self-harm workshop presentation
• MiLife presentation
• Kooth presentation

The Let’s Talk Self Harm Toolkit is linked here and can also be found by following the link below:
http://schools.essex.gov.uk/pupils/Emotional_Wellbeing_and_Mental_Health_Information_Portal_for_Schools/Pages/Risk-Taking-Behaviour.aspx

For those of you who attended the event - the organisers would be very grateful if you could please complete the short evaluation form attached and return it to helen.gregory@essex.gov.uk by no later than Wednesday 20^th December.

If anyone would like to receive a bundle of marketing materials for the Big White Wall service please contact Hayley.gillam@bigwhitewall.com'

Last but not least, don’t forget to access the huge range of resources and links on the emotional health and wellbeing portal on the Essex Schools Infolink at

http://schools.essex.gov.uk/pupils/Emotional_Wellbeing_and_Mental_Health_Information_Portal_for_Schools/Pages/default.aspx

Pam Langmead