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Our Senior students delivered their Lets Talk Change Presentation to the 1st Years.
The 4 students, Jamie Juhanson, Aine Murphy, Trevor O Shea McNamara and Emma O Shea have been training  as Peer Educators with the team in Jigsaw since October as part of the school’s participation in Year 2 of our engagement with the One Good School Project. These busy students gave up the valuable free time and put so much time and effort into this work and were rewarded with a very important and helpful Wellbeing moment with their younger Desmond College Peers.

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Pamela Nash
Kerrie Collins
Orla Fahey
Aisling Ryan
Gearoid O Leary
Mark Danaher
Aine Murphy
Emma O Shea
Trevor O Shea McNamara
Helen Barry
Steve Shepherd
Anne Marie Cussen

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Schools can provide a safe and supportive environment for building life-skills, resilience and a strong sense of connectedness.

Fostering healthy relationships among peers, school staff and parents is critical to a young person’s overall experience of school and their social, emotional and cognitive development. The wellbeing of teachers, school leadership and school staff must also be considered and supported.

A comprehensive and integrated approach to mental health promotion in

schools requires initiatives and supports for young people, teachers, parents and guardians and school leadership teams.

A key component of the success of One Good SchoolTM, is a commitment to adopting a whole-school approach to promoting and supporting youth mental health and wellbeing.

This starts with raising awareness about the initiative, connecting with the whole- school community about what is taking place and keeping the community updated.

In Year One of the programme we assembled a One Good School team made up of Students, Staff and Parents.

We conducted a comprehensive survey of all these groups and fed our research back to the team at Jigsaw.

In Year Two we rolled out a series of initiatives designed specifically for our Desmond College community. Which included:
A school wide webinar titled “Let’s Talk - Sure Why Not?” On the importance of identifying and discussing mental health in young people.

Our Peer Education Programme - Which facilitated the training senior students in training and delivering a mental health workshop to 1st Year students.

Staff Training in a variety of topics including:

Promoting Self Esteem in the Classroom

Supporting LGBT+ Students in Your School

Self Care for School Staff

Leading The Way – Supporting a whole-school approach

Mental health and wellbeing - A One Good School Approach

Self-Care for Parents/Guardians

Understanding anxiety for school staff

Parents have been involved in on the journey though membership on the OGS team and availability of webinars on the following topics:

- Supporting school transitions
- Young people and Friendships, relationships and Mental Health.

We are looking forward to engaging with this process as a community, connected, focussed and united.

P Nash

OGS Team Lead

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Implementation Toolkit: Task 3 (self-assessments) Tutorial

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Implementation Toolkit: Task 3 (self-assessments) Tutorial