1. SESSION OUTLINE
What is HeadStart and how does it work in schools?

3. HeadStart is for year olds living in Newham with emerging mental health difficulties who would benefit from additional support to become more emotionally resilient.

4. Building CAMHS Resilience Promoting Wellbeing Safeguarding HEADSTART
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5. OUTCOMES
HeadStart is a preventative early help service that promotes the emotional resilience of year olds with emerging mental health difficulties which leads to:
Reduction in Mental Health disorder
Improved school attainment and attendance
Reduction in risky behaviours
Reduction in NEET
HeadStart offers a significant opportunity to transform how schools and the community support young people to stay emotionally healthy and improve their life chances. This is an ambitious programme which offers the potential for real transformation.

6. Schools Community Parents
Bringing together schools, the community and parents, HeadStart delivers a range of early interventions for young people with emerging mental health difficulties and their families. HeadStart resilience building activities:
- Bounce Back Newham
- HeadStart Champions
- More than Mentors
- Supported Volunteering
- Creative and Sports Activities
- Peer Parenting Courses
- Academic Resilience Training
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Schools
Community
Parents

7. HeadStart Targeted Resilience Building Interventions
HeadStart Champions Opportunity for young people to be trained as HeadStart Champions and support the development of their school’s resilience strategy Open to Year 5-11 pupils from HeadStart schools
Supported Volunteering As a group, young people identify a social action project and are supported to co-develop and complete this over an academic term. Regular 1:1s allow reflection on learning Open to Year 8-9 pupils from HeadStart schools
More than Mentors Locally developed evidence based peer mentoring model. Peer mentors are trained, supervised and accredited to 1:1 mentor younger pupils weekly over a term Open to Year 7-8 or Year 10 pupils from HeadStart schools
HeadStart Targeted Resilience Building Interventions
Creative and Sports Activities Menu of group sporting and creative activity courses in the community including drama, slam poetry, film making and creative writing. Activities focus on building confidence and developing skills. Open to Year 5-11 from any Newham school
Peer Parenting Courses Peer led parenting courses offering workshops and 8 week parenting courses focusing on positive parenting, boundary setting, behaviour management and parental peer support Open to parents of any young person who could benefit from HeadStart
Academic Resilience Training Expert training delivered to staff groups to build your organisation’s confidence in identifying vulnerable young people, building their resilience and making recommendations to HeadStart. Open to agencies interested in recommending young people and parents to HeadStart
Bounce Back Newham Evidence based resilience behaviour change workbook (online and offline versions). Offline, young people are supported over 5 to 8 sessions. Online version is open to all and designed for self-use Open to Year 6 pupils from HeadStart schools

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Cumberland School Eastlea Community School Kingsford Community School Plashet School
Rokeby School Royal Docks Community School Sarah Bonnell School St Bonaventure’s Catholic School
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East London Science School Lister Community School Chobham Academy
Langdon School Little Ilford School St Angela’s Ursuline School

9. TIME SPENT IN SCHOOL: 7 hours a day = 44% of their waking day
5 days a week, 39 weeks in the year =
53% of the year
Just 2 recent headlines, seems they are weekly occurrences. Lots of media coverage, Climate is right. Why do people think schools are well placed to take a lead in fighting the crisis? Amount of time ALL young people spend in school is considerable, so when school is working well and supporting personal development and encouraging healthy relationships, it can be a life changing experience for young people