Description: Basic half day session looking at mental health, wellbeing and how we can have conversations and offer support.

Delivery Mode: Virtual and F2F

Cost: FREE

Accredited: Yes

Contact: Email training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description: MHFA England - 2 day course

Delivery Mode: Virtual and F2F

Cost: Cost implication

Accredited: No

Contact: Email training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description: Half day session MHFA refresher course.

Delivery Mode: Virtual and F2F

Cost: Cost implication

Accredited: No

Contact: Email training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description: 2 day session YMHFA training.

Delivery Mode: Virtual and F2F

Cost: Cost implication

Accredited: No

Contact: Email training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description: 2 day YMHFA training.

Delivery Mode: Virtual and F2F

Cost: FREE

Audience: Anyone on the mental health champion network lead by Barnardos PMHW's

Accredited: No

Contact: pmhw.mytime@barnardos.org.uk

Description:This three hour training session is suitable for school staff, health and social care practitioners, and anyone in the community who wants to know more about self-harm, and how they can support someone who is self-harming

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: FREE

Audience: School staff, health and social care practitioners and anyone in the community who wants to know more about self-harm

Accredited: No

Contact: training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description: This 2.5 hour session gives you the skills and tools to support an individual to develop their own safety plan.

Delivery Mode: Blended, F2F

Cost: FREE

Frequency: As needed

Audience: It is suitable for anyone in a support role who has already taken one of our suicide awareness or alertness courses, and wants to gain further skills in suicide intervention.

Accredited: No

Contact: training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description: 1 hour training session aimed at anyone wanting to understand more about suicide and how we can help prevent it

Delivery Mode: Blended

Cost: FREE

Frequency: Check website for details

Audience: Anyone

Accredited: No

Contact: training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description: This 3.5 hr training session is aimed at anyone who wants to understand more about suicide, how to know when someone may be having thoughts of suicide, how to talk directly and comfortably about suicide, and what we can all do to offer practical support.

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: FREE

Frequency: Check the website for details

Audience: Anyone

Accredited: Yes

Contact: training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description:

SPOT (90min) - introductory session to suicide prevention (barriers, language, signs, signposting).

SPEAK (3.5hrs) - Explore signs someone may be having thoughts of suicide, ask the question, safety planning.

ASIST (2 day) - suicide first-aid workshop to learn intervention skills.

Delivery Mode: F2F, Virtual, Blended

Cost: FREE

Audience: The training is for anyone wanting to build their confidence and skills to support someone having thoughts of suicide. Training is not age specific.

Accredited: Yes

Frequency: View upcoming trainings via our website, or contact us for more information on booking closed sessions.

https://www.papyrus-uk.org/active-training/training@papyrus-uk.org

Contact: jaydene.cheng@papyrus-uk.org.

Description:a half day session that explores the unique nature of suicide bereavement and how we can seek to support

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: FREE

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Anyone

Accredited: No

Contact: training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Description:

• Parent Consultation - A one-off meeting with parents to explore their child’s needs. Discuss SEMH, EBSA, SEN, signposting options, and relevant support pathways.

• Parent Peer Support Drop-in for EBSA

• A monthly online session for parents to connect, share experiences and support each other.

  These are facilitated by either John Harrington or Bryony Symes.

• EBSA Parenting Course: “Understanding EBSA and Your Child”

• A six-session programme delivered over 12 weeks.

  The course is designed to help parents and carers understand EBSA and learn practical ways to support their young person. It also offers a chance to meet other parents, share experiences and feel heard.

Delivery Mode: Virtual or F2F

Cost: FREE

Frequency: See description

Audience: Anyone open to Early Help - contact John directly or through an early help practitioner

Accredited: No

Contact: john.harrington@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Description: Multiply training offers covering:

An introduction to Decider Life Skills (parent/carer or professionals)

PMHW Monthly drop-in (parent/carer or professionals)

Exam stress for parents

YMHFA

Self-harm awareness session

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: FREE

Frequency: See calendar

Audience: Anyone on the mental health champion network

Accredited: No

Contact: pmhw.mytime@barnardos.org.uk

Description: Training for school staff to support CYP with EBSA

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: FREE

Frequency: As needed

Audience: School staff

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description: School staff -

• Bespoke training is offered to schools

that are working with MHSTs as determined through completing audits with Senior Mental Health Leads in schools and reviewing the individual school action plans.

Training includes:

Introduction to MHSTs

• Explaining P-LCBT to school staff

• Supporting a child with Fears and Worries

• Understanding the Teenage Brain

• Developing Decider skills as a whole school approach in your setting

• Developing peer mentoring in your school setting

• Considering adaptations to the school environment that support mental health

Delivery Mode: F2F, Virtual, Blended

Cost: FREE

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Any school staff with the MHST are working with

Accredited: No

Contact: School MHST via school senior mental health lead

Description: Consultation for Schools and Professionals with understanding Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs and Early Help pathways, and providing information, advice and signposting to relevant services and support.

Typical areas of enquiry include:

• Gaining a clear understanding of what SEMH needs are in regard to children and young people

• Exploring how Early Help and SEMH needs connect

• Understanding SEMH as a Special Educational Need and its relationship with EHCP processes

• Considering how SEMH interacts with other needs such as Autism and ADHD

• Understanding Emotional Based School Avoidance and pathways for support.

• Accessing advice and signposting to local and national services that support children with SEMH needs

Delivery Mode: F2F, Virtual

Cost: FREE

Frequency: As needed

Audience: School staff working with a child or children open to early Help

Accredited: No

Contact: john.harrington@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Description: 6 day package - Schools aware to contact the Education Psychology team at WaF

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: FREE (this may change in the future)

Frequency: As needed

Audience: School staff

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description:

Delivery Mode:

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: SENCo's in schools and other members of school staff more involved with provision for children and young people with Autism

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description:

Delivery Mode:

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: All school staff - delivered to the whole school

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description: 6 day package - Schools aware to contact the Education Psychology team at WaF

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: FREE (this may change in the future)

Frequency: As needed

Audience: School staff

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description:

Delivery Mode: Virtual - 2 hour twilight training

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: School staff

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description: 2 hour twilight

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: School staff (could be adapted for parents/carers)

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description: Half day training NEED MORE DETAILS IF POSSIBLE

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: FREE (this may change in the future)

Frequency: As needed

Audience: School staff or social workers

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description: Becoming trauma aware to look ‘Beyond ACEs’

and to develop relational health and resilience with vulnerable and wonderful children and Families.

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Teams working with vulnerable children and adults. Those in care, who have a social worker, are on a child protection plan or child in need plan

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: Building Underdeveloped Sensory Motor

Systems is a ‘bottom up’ trauma informed therapeutic approach develop by Sarah Lloyd (OT and Play Therapist) which can be used individually and in group work. Emotion coaching helps children to understand the different emotions they experience, why they occur and how to handle them. Emotion Coaching is based on the research of John Gottman to explain how emotions impact on forming relationships and the importance of feeling safe.

Delivery Mode: F2F or Virtual

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Sessions for school teachers and parents/carers

Social workers, Residential staff, Foster carers, Schools staff, SGO carers, Personal advisors, Social workers kinship carers

Accredited: No

Contact: virtualschool.businesssupport@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Description: Training for Foster carers, Supervising social care workers, Residential care team members, Child and family workers and Family resilience workers

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Foster carers, Supervising social care workers, Residential care team members, Child and family workers and Family resilience workers

Accredited: No

Contact: Zoe.Heathcock@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: Group supervision for ‘risk management and crisis support’ purposes when using AMBIT within Westmorland and Furness’s residential care homes.

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Residential Care Teams

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: A two-hour introduction or Two to five day course on how to ‘adapt’ and ‘integrate’ and ‘mentalizing’ approach to our work. AMBIT is the systemic application for Peter Fonagy’s ‘Mentalization Based Therapy’. Mentalization is a thinking style characterised by being flexible, curious and emotionally aware. This is key to the attachment process in the parent/ carer: child relationship and to effective therapeutic work.

Delivery Mode: F2F/Virtual/hybrid

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Social Workers, Practitioners and residential carers and any professional working in a multi - agency context with children’s services

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: All Foster carers in Cumbria are encouraged to complete a 4 day course in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Acquire the skills and knowledge to help children improve their coping strategies. Use crises as an opportunity to help children learn and grow

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed - 1 day overview

Audience: Westmorland Council residential homes use TCI as a crisis management response

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: Routine use of the Strength and Difficulty

Questionnaires (SDQ) are a statutory requirement for the children we care for, and help EHWB to screen for what type of emotional health and wellbeing support a child might need. SDQ training by EHWB aims to improve SDQ completion rates, and Social Worker confidence when engaging children, parents/ carers and teachers in SDQ scoring.

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Teams delivering services to children, young people, families and carers (i.e., Children’s Social Workers in CLA, and SAP Teams, although Fostering and residential services would benefit too).

Accredited: No

Contact: Jenny.lofthouse@cumberland.gov.uk

Talia.mcmillan@cumberland.gov.uk

Description: Introduction to Trauma Informed Care

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Teams delivering services to children and young people, families and carers

Accredited: No

Contact: Jenny.lofthouse@cumberland.gov.uk

Talia.mcmillan@cumberland.gov.uk

Description: One day course to help managers in Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness Council’s to understand how working with traumatised children and families can impact on the people they manage, and how best to help prevent burnout, vicarious trauma and secondary trauma.

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed - 1 day

Audience: Team Managers, Residential Managers, Service Managers and Head teachers working in Cumberland or Westmorland and Furness Children’s Services

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: Westmorland and Furness Children’s

Services are launching a new life story policy that will implement Richard Rose’s Therapeutic Life Story Work (TLSW) model. This 2-and-a-half-hour workshop will introduce participants to the new policy and some of the tools and techniques used in TLSW and other models such as Signs of safety, and PACE used by TLSW Practitioners in their direct work to engage and communicate with vulnerable children and families.

Delivery Mode: F2F

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed - 2.5 hour workshop

Audience:

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: Teams can access this after

their managers have completed Trauma Informed Supervision

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed - 1 day

Audience: Social Workers, Practitioners, Child and family workers, Family resilience worker, carers and Care teams.

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: Participants will learn about how trauma

impacts on learning and behaviour at school and how best to respond in a trauma informed way.

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: Free

Frequency: 1 hour every Tuesday

Audience: Anyone working in a school or college or educational setting

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description: 2 hours monthly group supervision to help

TLSW trained practitioners to support each other to be reflect upon their Therapeutic Life Story Work practice, while also sharing good practice examples.

Delivery Mode: Virtual

Cost: Free

Frequency: 2 hours a month group supervision

Audience: Theraputic Life Story Work trained practitioners

Accredited: No

Contact: Sean.Twomey@Cumberland.gov.uk

Description:

Delivery Mode: F2F or Virtual

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Schools and parent/carers

Accredited: No

Contact: virtualschool.businesssupport@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Description:

Delivery Mode:

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience:

Accredited: No

Contact: Educational Psychology (EP) service | Westmorland and Furness Council

Description: Introducing the values of youth work and what youth work is.

Delivery Mode: Virtual/F2F,Blended

Cost: Free

Frequency:

Audience:

Accredited:

Contact: info@youthpresence or Mary Biddle info@youthpresence.org.uk

.org.uk or contact Cumbria Youth Alliance

Description: The importance of connection in preventative work with children and young people.

Delivery Mode: Virtual/F2F,Blended

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Voluntary sector youth

work staff and volunteers

Accredited: no

Contact: info@youthpresence or Mary Biddle info@youthpresence.org.uk

.org.uk or contact Cumbria Youth Alliance

Description: Storm break is a charity who aim to improve

children's mental health through movement, equipping them with sustainable, transferable skills and coping strategies to thrive during the complex demands of growth into adult life

Delivery Mode: Virtual/F2F,Blended

Cost: Free

Frequency: As needed

Audience: Primary schoolsstaff

Accredited: no

Contact: https://www.stormbreak.org.uk/

For Professionals:

A variety of online courses are available, including:​

• Understanding Trauma: This course delves into the impact of trauma on individuals and offers strategies for effective support.​solihullapproachparenting.com

• Understanding Attachment: Focusing on the significance of attachment in developmental and relational contexts.​

• Understanding Brain Development: Exploring how the brain develops and its influence on behavior and learning.​inourplace.co.uk

For Parents and Carers:

The Solihull Approach provides online courses tailored to support parents, grandparents, and carers in supporting strong, healthy relationships with children. These courses cover a range of topics, from understanding child behaviour to navigating developmental stages, and are designed to improve emotional health and well-being within families. ​s

These online training offerings are evidence-based and developed by experts, ensuring participants receive high-quality, relevant information to support their personal or professional development.

Professionals Courses:        CODE: WORDSWORTHPRF​

·         Understanding trauma​

·         Understanding attachment​

·         Understanding brain development​

This 45-minute long e-learning course looks at how staff can best support students who are struggling with their mental health and wellbeing.

It provides staff with a basic understanding of mental health and wellbeing and acknowledges that ill mental health can look different for everyone.

Mental health leads could use this webinar to create their own training so that the content is more tailored to their individual school or college setting.

This e-learning course is CPD accredited and delivered by an independent NSPCC accredited safeguarding consultant. Users will be emailed their certificate upon completion.

MindEd for families – There are also free to use resources to support parents and carers. They provide safe and reliable advice about young people’s mental health, created by experts and parents together.

MindEd brochure, provides a range of specialised e-learning sessions, including:

• adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) programme

• blue light services

• combining therapies

• core mental health content

• counselling

• MindEd for families

• healthy child mental health framework

• improving workforce wellbeing, resilience and population mental health

• learning disabilities and mental health

• suicide and self-harm prevention (SSHP)

• targeted and specialist CAMHS

• wellbeing for education return

• MindEd top tips hub

Session 1 (You)

People are supported to manage their own mental health and wellbeing.

We need to understand that we all have mental health, and recognise when our wellbeing might be at risk. This session gives participants an interactive experience through whole group discussion and breakout space, to reflect on what will help to sustain them to manage the stresses and strains of life in relation to work.

Session 2 (others)

People are supported to recognise influences on others mental health and wellbeing.

We need to support the workforce to recognise the impact that trauma can have on their, and others actions and behaviours. This session offers an opportunity for participants to consider how they view and engage with each other through a relational lens.

Session 3 (Culture)

People are supported to consider the impact ethos and culture has on mental health and wellbeing.

This session offers participants the opportunity to consider the wider environment/culture in which they operate, and how it could be improved to better meet the wellbeing needs of all.

We provide a range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for staff:​

• Blogs

• Booklets

• Activities and Posters

• Wakelets

• Podcasts​

• Videos

We have organised our resources by themes: mental health and wellbeing, bereavement, grief, loss and change, trauma, and staff wellbeing.​

BEC strives to collaborate on the development of resources with a range of practitioners and organisations working within education, as well as with CYP directly. Contributions have been made by experts in their fields - some of the relationships we have established are with the University of the West of England and BATOD.

We hope that these resources support you in facilitating conversations with CYP around mental health and wellbeing, offering a framework to explore complex emotions and feelings. We have intentionally left age ranges open for many of our booklets and activities, as they can be adapted to suit various developmental stages. The use of props/real objects, where appropriate, will enhance the learning experience.

Whilst resources play a valuable role in supporting learning around key topics such as mental health, grief, bereavement, loss, change, and trauma, the most important resource is the adult guiding the CYP - bringing their own skills, knowledge, empathy, and values to the interaction. Positive relationships are essential for all babies, children, and young people. Through these connections, they learn to feel safe, develop a sense of belonging, and begin to understand themselves and others. We believe that strong, supportive relationships are at the core of creating environments that promote positive mental health and wellbeing for everyone.

At BEC we greatly value any feedback received; connecting and listening to staff about what you want and need enables us to provide content that is responsive to both the needs of CYP and the staff supporting them. Please complete this feedback form if you have accessed any of the BEC resources (blog, booklet, activity, poster, Wakelet, podcast, or video).​

• Mental health needs of refugee children and youth.

• Racial Trauma

• Relationships in the education environment, various trauma, and the importance of support in the workplace.

• Positive pathways for care experienced young people aged 19 - 21.

• BEAT - Eating disorders, warning signs, support and treatment.

• Trauma - What it is!

• The impact of early years trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACE's).

• The flight, fight, freeze and flock theory.

• Relational poverty and the impact positive interactions can have on a child or young person.

• Generational Trauma.

  
  

This course covers Type 1 and Type 2 trauma, the window of tolerance, going through a traumatic experience, neurology and trauma. recognising trauma, recovery from trauma, and more... 

• Understanding Attachment - This course is for practitioners who want to understand more about attachment, and shows how containment and reciprocity underpin the quality of an attachment. 

• Understanding Brain Development - This course is for practitioners who want an introduction to brain development from the antenatal period to adolescence. 

To access this FREE course please enter the code WORDSWORTH.

This on-line course takes between 1 - 3 hours to complete.

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Child Sexual Exploration (CSE)

Domestic Abuse 

Neglect

Suicide Alertness

Emotional wellbeing and mental health

and much more