The Emotional Wellbeing Gateway website assists professionals and families who are worried about a child’s emotional wellbeing, providing online guidance and local support services for common mental health issues.

The information available on the Emotional Wellbeing Gateway website, which is funded by the Children and Young People’s Emotional Wellbeing 2020 Plan, has been co-produced with the Suffolk Parent Carer Network, and includes:

• Information and resources about emotional wellbeing support, including how to access the Emotional Wellbeing Hub.

• Practical advice and guidance pages on common mental health issues, such as, anxiety, stress, depression, eating disorders, and self-harm.

• A directory of local organisations and community services that offer emotional wellbeing support to children, young people, and families.

 

We have a selection of training opportunities available to professionals. The new training courses provide an understanding of:
• Why it’s important to be emotionally healthy and how to spot the risks to mental health,
• Common mental health symptoms, and how they affect family life,
• How to guide children and young people who are experiencing poor mental health towards the support they need.

For more details about the training courses, please see:
Emotional wellbeing training courses flyer (PDF)

To find available course dates, and to book a place, go to Suffolk CPD Online. Go to the ‘multi agency’ channel and search using course event code MHFA or SNM.

If you have not already created a training profile on Suffolk CPD Online you will need to do this, before booking onto to an event.
Instructions can be found here

MindEd, is a great resourceful website offering e-learning modules to professionals (Please note that the website also has a wealth of easy to read information that you can signpost parents and carers to - MindEd – for families

MindEd - for Professionals & Volunteers has a suite of core e-learning modules for professionals that has been selected to foster a universal understanding of mental health and emotional wellbeing in our children and young people. To access their e-learning models you need to create a learning account by registering on the MindEd home page here.

You will then need to sign in to track and record your progress every time you work on a module. To view your progress simply click onto the 'My Sessions' link in your profile page.

Please bear in mind

The content of these modules is extremely valuable in understanding the challenges some of our children face. However, they are designed for a national audience and may occasionally contain some information which is at variance with methods practised within your organisation. Please keep this in mind as you work through the modules.

Continuity and Coherence in Thinking - covers recognising situations in which different agencies and childcare professionals have different priorities for a child, enabling you to reduce the likelihood of this happening.

Family Relationship Problems - focuses on family relationship problems as an important factor affecting the behaviour and emotional state of children and young people.

Mental Health and Wellbeing - aims to help practitioners to describe mental health and well-being and identify the wider social determinants which protect vulnerable children and adolescents.

Putting Information Together - offers a framework for focusing on a child or young person's needs, and formulating an effective plan or intervention.

Self-harm and Risky Behaviour - provides the background to self-harm, common associated conditions and the optimal approach to managing it in the community.

Optional modules

Managing Risk: Self-harm and Suicidality - aimed at more experienced/specialist users, it focuses on the shorter and longer-term management of self-harm and suicidality, and touches on the assessment frameworks.

Wrap Around Approach - looks at the relevant systems in relation to child mental health and why it is important for these systems to work coherently.