Mental Health Champions in Bradford Schools: A Future in Mind Initiative
***Relaunched and expanded for 2019/20***
The Mental Health Champions project was born out of the Government's Green Paper: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.
The project was set up to provide support for schools in dealing with children and young people with low level mental health or emotional wellbeing difficulties. It is not intended to replace specialist support, but is a way that schools can access information
and guidance for staff carrying out their day to day roles and responsibilities. The project is managed and delivered by Bradford Educational Psychology Team, meaning that training and support is based on up to date research and evidence-based practice.
Although it has been running on an ‘opt in ‘ basis for a number of years,
all schools in Bradford are now expected to join the project. Delivery of the project is fully funded by the Clinical Commissioning Groups in Bradford, and therefore costs to schools are minimal, and mainly limited to the costs of sending Champions to
the six meetings.
Schools should nominate a ‘Mental Health Champion’ who acts as a point of contact in school and who attends six meetings per year where they receive training and supervision related to issues affecting the mental health of children and young people.
Meeting Dates
Please find below a list of target weeks and proposed themes for network meetings this year. (Full details are on the Skills for Bradford website). Network meetings are intended to be delivered in area hubs to support local links and sharing of resources:
Mondays: West Tuesdays: North Thursdays:
South Fridays: East
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w/c 2nd December 2019
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Relaunch and introduction
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w/c 3rd February 2020
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Depression and anxiety
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w/c 23rd March 2020
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Coping with transitions
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w/c/ 18th May 2020
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Self-harm and suicidal thoughts
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w/c 29th June 2020
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Healthy relationships
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Each area is allocated the choice of either a morning or afternoon session. Champions should book their preferred session on the Skills for Bradford website:
http://skills4bradford.co.uk (registration required).
For queries please email: mhchampions@bradford.gov.uk