What is self-harm really about? Primary Parents

Satveer has had a passion for reducing stigma around mental health since she herself became affected. Her experiences as a patient and more recently as a parent of a child with mental illness have helped shape her career. Her main focus is upon improving understanding of, and response to self-harm behaviours.In 2018 Satveer was the recipient of ‘Most Inspirational Person of the Year’ at the Midland’s Business Community and Charity Awards. This was a great honour, especially as the winner was decided through a public vote. Satveer was nominated for the work that she does in reducing stigma of self-harm and mental illness nationwide.Over the last 8 years she has successfully set-up ‘Attention Seekers? Training’. Through the business, she delivers her CPD Accredited Self-harm Awareness course nationally alongside PSHE/PDC student sessions, parent awareness sessions, conference talks and workshops. Though the majority of her deliveries are for education-based staff and students, she also delivers to housing staff, doctors, nurses, social workers among others. Some of the media work Satveer has been involved in includes having a video featured on Head Talks, written for the Boarding Schools Association Magazine and featured Natasha Devon’s best-selling book ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Being Mental’.The key for Satveer is combining lived experience and academics to provide robust sessions that remove the taboo of self-harm and suicide to not only increase the confidence of professionals in providing support but also for those who self-harm to feel empowered to seek support.www.satveernijjar.com

Satveer Nijjar

A free event for Parent/Carers of Primary School children within Gloucestershire to improve understanding of self-harm behaviours.

This event is being fully funded under the Trailblazer Programme and is for parent/carer's of Primary Children within Gloucestershire. The session will be delivered by Satveer Nijjar (www.satveernijjar.com).We know that young people's mental health is being affected by the pandemic. It is estimated 1 in 8 young people self-harm in any one year. Self-harm is not just an issue that affects secondary students, more and more younger students are presenting with self-harm behaviours.Whether you are a parent/carer of a young person who is self-harming or not, this is a session for all. Maybe you struggle to understand why someone may self-harm, or how to best support them if faced with it? Do you want to broaden your understanding and build your confidence on the topic?This online session will be delivered through Zoom and cover:<ul><li>improve your understanding of self-harm behaviours</li><li>look at what leads someone to self-harm</li><li>what functions the person gets from the behaviour</li><li>how best to broach suspected self-harm</li><li>what to say / not to say to someone who is self-harming</li><li>alternative strategies to self-harm you can offer</li></ul>This is Satveer's 2hr awareness raising session that is usually delivered in schools / colleges across the UK. It is consistently met with excellent feedback however due to Covid-19 the sessions are currently being delivered online. A full handout will be provided at the end of the session. "As a parent, you hope you would never ever have to deal with anything like this, but information evenings like this, promoting awareness of issues that are ever more present amongst our young people today are so important. It was a really informative, interesting and, surprisingly enjoyable evening given the subject matter. Satveer was extremely engaging in her delivery and I am sure everyone walked away from the meeting having more of an understanding and appreciation of the issues involved, I certainly did." Parent attendee at a school session.

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