Services
Wellbeing Warriors
This is a programme of between 8-10 sessions training children/young people to recognise when their peers may be upset anxious or worried and gives them the confidence to approach and support them.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
What we experience or are exposed to as a child or young person can have a detrimental effect on our mental and physical health as both a child and later on in adulthood.
This may impact severely our ability to achieve our potential.
Some of these areas could be:
- Being subjected to physical sexual and/or emotional abuse.
- Exposure to drugs and alcohol in the family.
- Family members being involved in the Criminal Justice System, serving a prison sentence.
- Having a close family member with a several mental health issue.
- Breakup in a family through divorce, death or being taken into the care system.
- Bereavement.
Wellbeing Warriors
This is a programme of between 8-10 sessions training children/young people to recognise when their peers may be upset anxious or worries and gives them the confidence to approach and support them.
Each Warrior who completes the training will be equipped with:
- understanding and knowledge
- an identification lanyard
- information hand out
- a folder with more information
… and works with teachers and other staff in the school being available through playground duty on a daily basis.
