There is an increasing interest in how schools can help children and young people to learn better by addressing their emotional needs:
- > Some 25 pathfinder authorities are starting to explore ways of developing an holistic, whole-school approach to promoting children’s mental well-being.
- > A review of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is underway, led by Jo Davidson.
Judging from the experience of the 20 organisations in the Emotional Health Alliance (EHA), a central challenge is ensuring that sufficient resources are focused on early-enough intervention, and are not diverted towards the problems identified by needs analysis.
At our interactive presentation on the 7th March, the EHA’s chair James Park will describe how the experience of the alliance’s 20 organisations argues the need for schools and children’s services to:
- > root targeted interventions in truly holistic approaches
- > implement prevention that is early enough to minimise the emergence of problems
- > ensure all adults act in ways that support the work of ‘specialists’ in emotional health and well-being
- > pay attention to the emotional environment of their organisations
We will present a video made by young people from the Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate to illustrate these themes, showing how the provision of different forms of listening at various stages in a young person’s journey through school can ensure today’s issues do not become tomorrow’s problems.
Key figures from children’s services are being invited to the symposium to explore how this message can be effectively communicated to policy-makers.
Date: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Time: 11.00 to 1.00 p.m.
Venue: Antidote, 3rd floor, Cityside House, 40 Adler St, Aldgate E1 1EE Click here for details >
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