1. Mental Health Champions: June Network Meeting Mental Health Effects of Bullying
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
9.30 Welcome and update: An overview of research into the mental health consequences of bullying
Sharing resources: Circle of Friends/ Mindfulness/ Personal Construct Psychology
10.30 Show and Tell: Assemblies and decisions – themes and issues for next year
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Supervision groups
12.15 Plenary and review

3. Update Living Life to the Full: dates Steering groups
Mental Health Champions in

4. Kids Who are Bullied
Kids who are bullied can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues. Kids who are bullied are more likely to experience:
Depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns, and loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy. These issues may persist into adulthood.
Health complaints
Decreased academic achievement—GPA and standardized test scores—and school participation. They are more likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school.
A very small number of bullied children might retaliate through extremely violent measures. In 12 of 15 school shooting cases in the 1990s, the shooters had a history of being bullied.

5. Kids Who Bully Others
Kids who bully others can also engage in violent and other risky behaviours into adulthood. Kids who bully are more likely to:
Abuse alcohol and other drugs in adolescence and as adults
Get into fights, vandalize property, and drop out of school
Engage in early sexual activity
Have criminal convictions and traffic citations as adults 
Be abusive toward their romantic partners, spouses, or children as adults

6. Bystanders Kids who witness bullying are more likely to:
Have increased use of tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs
Have increased mental health problems, including depression and anxiety
Miss or skip school

7. Evidence base
Observing bullying at school: The mental health implications of witness status.
Rivers, Ian; Poteat, V. Paul; Noret, Nathalie; Ashurst, Nigel
School Psychology Quarterly, Vol 24(4), Dec 2009,
Can social support protect adolescents from adverse outcomes? A prospective study on the effects of bullying on the educational achievement and mental health of adolescents at …
C Rothon, J Head, E Klineberg, S Stansfeld - Journal of adolescence,2011 

8. https://www. livescience

9. Circle of Friends: An evidence based intervention to build social support

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

11. Supervision Groups