With Youth online groups
With Youth’s digital wellbeing service for 5–18-year-olds have their free online groups for ages 7-12 and 13+ re-starting at the end of September. Topics will include:
- Understanding emotions
- Friendships
- Coping strategies
- Self-care
- Changes
- Identity
- Building self-esteem and much more!
Some quotes from young people who joined previous 7-12 and 13+ age online groups:
‘I grew more confident with talking to people’
‘It was good and helpful. I learnt a lot.’
Wellbeing Book Club
The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is excited to introduce its newest project. A wellbeing book club!
Reading is a great way to relax and has positive benefits for our mental health too! Research has found that reading helps to reduce stress, increase concentration and combat insomnia. Reading with your child not only strengthens the parent-child bond but also helps children to develop empathy and emotional awareness, teaching children that it is okay to feel emotions and how to cope with their feelings in healthy ways.
What’s not to love?
At the start of each school term we will be releasing a MHST Book Club Newsletter which will have 4 book recommendations (don’t worry you don’t have to read them all!) that deal with the topic of mental health and wellbeing for all ages, along with some conversational prompts and questions to get you thinking!
If you want to get involved and sign up to the newsletter, please click on the following link
Looking Ahead Workshop
Dates for the sessions are:
Wednesday 13th November 5-7pm in Stevenage
Monday 11th November in Watford
Thursday 14th November in Hemel Hempstead
If you are interested in attending, or would like more information, please contact us on cyp@hertsmindnetwork.org
The Nobel 5 Ways to Wellbeing
- Keep learning – Lessons, hobbies, extracurricular, anything that interest you.
- Connect – It’s good to talk!
- Take Notice – time for you, reset and go again.
- Give.
- Be Active – stay fit and strong, exercise improves mood.
Parenting can be a challenge, but Nessie can help!
Helping young people to overcome worries and problems can be difficult for parents/carers to manage, especially at this time of year when young people are going back to school or college, or if other changes are happening. It can often be helpful to talk these issues through with someone who understands and knows what might help.
This autumn Nessie’s free (NHS funded) Parenting Support Service is offering a range of support for parents of children who might be struggling to attend school or college, self-harming, experiencing bullying or any other problems that are adversely affecting their emotional wellbeing/mental health:
Links
NHS Stevenage Mental Health Support Team
Mental health services and contact information within the Stevenage area.
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NESSIE
Nessie is a not for profit, independent therapy organisation that focuses on helping children and young people (0 – 25 years) thrive.
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The Sandbox
Award winning digital mental health support for Children and Young People
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Neurodiversity Support Hub
The neurodiversity support hub is an advice service offering support, signposting and guidance about a whole range of things relating to ADHD and Autism.
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Understanding Emotional Based School Avoidance & Guide for Parents (EBSA)
This guidance is primarily aimed at parents and carers of children who are at the early stages of EBSA – those for whom school is just beginning to be a major source of anxiety and attendance a cause for concern. The strategies discussed may be less relevant to children who have not attended school for considerable periods of time due to their very severe anxiety. These young people may need the support of health professionals to manage their anxiety before they are able to make a successful return to education
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MHST Hertfordshire & West Essex – Riding the Wave of Emotion
Emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behaviour.
Supporting Links – Course Brochure Autumn 2024
Free online and face to face parent courses through Supporting Links starting in the Autumn term, click on the link below.
Supporting Links – Courses & Workshops
We are a local Social Enterprise, providing parenting support through courses, workshops and 1:1 mentoring of parents and children throughout Hertfordshire and the surrounding area.
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Anxiety – resources on how to help deal with periods of anxiety.
Self-esteem – resources on how to help deal with your self esteem.
Low mood/Depression – resources on how to help deal with low mood/Depression.
Self-harm – resources on how to help deal with low self-harm.
Anger – resources on how to help deal with anger.
