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Useful links and resources

Useful links and resources

Post 16 and careers

bucksskillshub.org
Uptree students
icould.com
nationalcareers.service.gov.uk
Youth space | Family Information Service
Youth Enquiry Service - High Wycombe
Shaw Trust - We support young people to realise their potential
Restore Hope-enriching groups, courses and activities to help local people in need take their next best step for a hope-filled tomorrow.
Support we offer - NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies

Mental health support

Free Resources Archives - ELSA Support (elsa-support.co.uk)
Improving children’s mental health in schools – (Place2Be)
Free, 24/7 mental health text support in the UK | Shout 85258 (giveusashout.org)
Home - Calm Harm App
Resource library: Mentally Healthy Schools

M.I.N.T.
Phone: 07850 376130
Email: info@mintcounselling.org

Papyrus UK Suicide Prevention | Prevention of Young Suicide (papyrus-uk.org)

Nip in the Bud: Nip in the Bud works with mental health professionals of the highest standing to produce FREE short evidence-based films, fact sheets, blogs, and podcasts to help parents/carers, primary school staff, teacher trainees, and others working with children to recognise potential mental health conditions.

The Charlie Waller Trust: Mental Health Resources and Training. We provide mental health training and resources with a focus on children and young people. We equip parents, carers, teachers, and communities with the best and latest evidence-based strategies. We give them the knowledge and confidence to help young people thrive.

Young Minds: We provide young people with the tools to look after their mental health. We empower adults to be the best support they can be to the young people in their lives. Guides for young people, guides for parents/carers, and a parents' helpline.

Alumina: A free, online 7-week course for young people struggling with self-harm. (10-17 year olds)

Beyond: Beyond is a youth mental health charity tackling the growing mental health crisis affecting young people in the UK.

Neurodiversity Support

The Parents Portal - Autism Early Support: An interactive 24/7 community of support, resources, and guidance. Free for Buckinghamshire residents.

Autism Toolbox – Buckinghamshire Council Family Information Service:
Whether or not your child has an autism diagnosis, this toolbox will provide advice and signpost you to support, services, and resources to help you to support your child.

Autistic Girls Network – information and resources: 
A small registered charity working to support autistic women, girls, and their families by providing education, resources and community.

Trauma informed

(beaconhouse.org.uk) useful-resources
Resources - UKTC (uktraumacouncil.org)

Practical classroom strategies for pupils with Development Trauma and Attachment Difficulties (Download Word)

Barnardo's Thames Valley Trauma Informed Padlet: Advice and signposting to help spread and embed Trauma Awareness and Trauma-Informed Practice throughout Thames Valley.

Child Bereavement UK: This guide is free to download and offers schools and educational settings guidance, support, and information when a death occurs in the school community, when a school is facing an expected death, or when a pupil is facing bereavement.

Nudge Education: Nudge Education provides a range of services to support young people who have become chronically disengaged from education, no matter the reason. 

UK Trauma Council: Resources to support individuals and organisations working to nurture and protect children and young people following trauma. You will find articles, animations, videos, guidance, handouts, presentations, and more — all created by the UK’s leading childhood trauma experts.

Hector's House: Promote mental health awareness and suicide prevention

Mindjam Mentoring: At MindJam, our primary focus is to support young people’s emotional well-being. We believe that the key to doing so is by engaging them in a world in which they feel safe and comfortable, namely video games. We support young people between the ages 6 – 25.

OpenLearn Create is an educational platform providing free courses, including one entitled “Foundations of trauma-informed, relationship-based practice – an introductory course for everyone”, which aims to help you understand the concepts of “trauma-informed” and “relationship-based” practices.

Transitions

Moving up! The transition to secondary school | Anna Freud
The Small Fish Podcast- helping parents and children’s workers to create conversations about the transition from primary to secondary school.

Getting children ready for reception: supporting effective transition DFE 
Supporting the Transition from Primary to Secondary School for SEN Children with Kirsty Greenwood: The SENDcast | Podcast on Spotify
Supporting your child's transition to secondary school | Bucks Family Information Service
Young Minds: Helping your child manage the move from primary to secondary school
BBC Teach: Transitioning to secondary school 

Therapeutic interventions including animal therapy

The Zones of Regulation | A Curriculum For Emotional Regulation
(adhdfoundation.org.uk)
www.autismteachingcompany.org.uk
Free resources available - Your Therapy Source
(ilslearningcorner.com)
Home - Chiltern Forest School
Wild for Life
Orchard Therapeutic Farm 
Harmony Alternative Education 
Heroesberkshire

Ride High Equestrian Centre MK: horse riding and life skills work, as well as educational trips, visits, and residentials during the school holidays.
  
Horsewyse(Long Crendon): Working with children with ASD, ADHD, behavioural and anxiety, and more complex needs, as well as many other disabilities/mental health.

Animal Antiks North Marston: Animal-assisted Learning and Therapy.

Therapy dogs PAWS Bracknell: Animal-assisted interventions.

SEND/SEMH children's Alternative Provision Fields of Dreams Farm, Potterspury: Fields of Dreams was founded because we recognised a deep need to be a voice for students who struggle in mainstream education.

Rossway RDA Amersham: We provide opportunities to ride or simply be with horses and to support children & adults with physical, emotional, or psychological challenges.

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

FASD.me: Website for children to understand and celebrate their FASD diagnosis 
National Organisation for FASD: includes information and resources for schools and families 
FASD Hub on the Adoption UK website

Speech and language help

NHS Buckinghamshire Healthcare – Speech and language therapy

  • General information and advice
  • Speech and language therapy virtual advice sessions – advice for parents, carers, and professionals working in education settings

Fostering, adoption and post order resources

BraveHeart Education - #1 Attachment and Trauma Training

Adoption UK: Adoption UK is the leading charity for adopted and care-experienced people, adoptive families, and others parenting children who can’t live with their birth parents

Buckinghamshire Adoption: preparing and supporting you through adoption and after
Buckinghamshire Guardians guide: support and information for special guardians

Welcoming refugee children (trauma informed)

International Rescue Committee: The Healing Classrooms programme aims to support schools and educators to develop inclusive and nurturing learning spaces where refugee and asylum-seeking students can gain the necessary academic, social, and emotional skills to develop their full potential.

The Bell Foundation: EAL resources for schools 
EAL Hub: resources, assessment and support 
Widgit: Free communication boards and symbol resources

 

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