1. Mental Health Champions: March Network Meeting
Some of the most significant risk factors for emotional and behavioural difficulties in children are parenting and effective family functioning, parental mental health (especially maternal depression), and socioeconomic circumstances. Children from the most disadvantaged 20% of households are three times as likely to have a mental health difficulty as the most advantaged 20%.

2. Agenda 9.00 Welcome 9.15 Self harm: An overview
9.45 Show and Tell: Assemblies
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Supervision groups
12.15 Plenary and review

3. Government Mental Health Agenda
5 steps to mental health and wellbeing:
Connect with people
Be active
Be curious
Learn
Give

4. Changing the way we think: contesting stigma
What are the beliefs and stereotypes about self harm which exist in your school?
Among pupils? Among staff? Among parents?

5. What would you do if……

6. What helps? What might harm?
In small groups please discuss the kind of things which might help Aaron, and the kinds of things which might be unhelpful

7. No Harm Done
Young Minds resources for young people, parents and professionals
Guidance on ‘first conversations’

8. Building confidence and managing confidentiality
Look at the draft policy – would this work in your school? Pros/ cons/ pitfalls?
Does it help you maintain confidentiality?

9. Understanding and monitoring self harm
‘FUPS’ data
Parity of esteem requires parity of data
Helping to build a picture of self harming behaviour in schools
Please use the pro forma

10. Useful resources

11. Useful resources http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/files/pdfversion/CR192.pdf