1. Children and Young People Update
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Children and Young People Update
Hubs Event July 2019

2. Our Work
We want this generation to be more open about mental health problems than any before.
We work in:
Secondary schools
Colleges
Youth sector organisations

3. Our Work Our programme of work includes… Free resources
National campaigns
Training for local areas
Youth involvement
Social marketing activity

4. History
Hollyfield School hosted the 1st Kingston Student mental health conference in 2014.
Ten Pupils each from ten Kingston secondary schools took part.
Each of these pupils were to become the first mental health ambassadors (champions)
the conference has been held in 5 other schools in Kingston.
every new cohort of ambassadors updates their school’s mental health action plan each year.

5. Aims
To increase awareness by young people of how to look after their mental health
To encourage young people to get involved in tackling stigma in their school
To encourage young people to get involved in developing a whole school approach to mental health in their schools.
Young people are confident to talk about mental health and seek help

6. Agenda & Themes
As the conference has been running for a number of years now we have covered a few main themes:
self-harm
self-esteem
stigma and discrimination of mental health and
resilience
Here is an example agenda that we used this year…

7. 9.00
Welcome – Tiffin Boys Head teacher
9.10
Introduction to Mental Health
9:40
Mingling and ice breaker
9:55
Resilience
10:25
Break
10:40
Time to change – resilience and how to help your friends
11:25
Current ambassadors from Tiffin Boys
11:35
Action planning
12:15
Evaluations and mind apples
12:25
Closing speech by head
12:30
Lunch
13:00
Close

8. Action planning Schools are given a chance during the conference to work on their school action plans.

9. Events in schools Time to talk Day
Following the conference many schools took part in the Time to Talk Day Some of the activities that went on in schools were…
Mental Health Ambassadors delivered a stigma awareness assembly to other year groups
Tea and Chat sessions in staff rooms
Counselling rooms were decorated with TTC posters

10. Kingston Time to change hub
In 2018 Kingston became a Time to change hub, initially unfunded and now funded. At this event last year I met the TTC children's team and discussed links to our conference. This year we worked together on a joint conference. It was very well received, see below.

11. Evaluation from this years conference
102 students attended from 11 different secondary schools & 10 school staff
91% of students that attended said they either enjoyed or really enjoyed the conference overall.
The students stated that they found the Time to Change and Champion (Cameron’s) talk the most useful part of the day.
‘The most useful part of the conference I feel was the information that the guest speakers gave us. It was informative, interesting, enjoyable and relatable especially hearing Cameron’s speech.’
‘Listening to Cameron’s story was important to relate this to someone like us. His story was also inspiring.’
‘Cameron talking and explaining about his life and experiences was really touching and gave insight into a first hand experience of a mental health disorder.’
‘I think the most useful part of the conference was the action planning. We all described about what would help with situations inside of school. We all shared ideas and raised awareness to what people have suffered from.’

12. How we can support hubs . We have supported hubs by:
Providing free resources and links to national campaigns
Delivering free training sessions for local secondary schools, colleges and youth sector organisations.
Involvement in activities aimed at young leaders in schools
Attending local headteacher meetings, PSHE network meetings
Linking in with schools improvement, healthy schools and PSHE leads in hub areas. .

13. Our offer for local areas
‘Train the Trainer’ course for teachers to deliver themselves to pupils
Young leadership groups developing their own campaigns in schools
‘Social contact’ opportunities where young people share their experience of mental health problems
CYP Regional Coordinators and Young Champions delivering together

14. Our free resources
Focus on sustainability to ensure teachers can deliver their own sessions and young people can run their own campaigns, drawing on our resources
Signposting to new materials hub to create own content

15. National Campaigns
Time to Talk Day schools running assemblies and activity on the day
In Your Corner November Campaign schools delivering 4 assemblies over the month
School action plans schools committing to run stigma busting activity throughout the year

16. Next Steps
To set up a phone call please contact me on:
Naomi Russell
Or visit our website at:

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Thank You