The Wellbeing for Education Return programme aims to equip nominated education staff with the knowledge and skills to introduce and contextualise information and resources to their settings' staff and to support and enable discussions with children and young people, parents/carers and each other.

The programme will be delivered virtually across 7 sessions and explore the following topic areas:

Session 1: Introduction to Wellbeing for Education Return

Session 2: Whole School Approaches to positive mental health/building a community

Session 3: Adult Well-being (Parents/Carers, Teachers and School Leaders)

Session 4: Relationships, neuroscience & trauma

Session 5: Anxiety and working vulnerable groups including pupils with SEND

Session 6: Change, Loss and Bereavement

Session 7: Supervision and Peer Support Models

Focus Group sessions will further enable the programme to be responsive to and reflective of the challenges across the local context.

Overarching Learning Outcomes

By the end of the programme, participants will have had the opportunity to :• Explore how mental health and wellbeing is currently being supported across their setting;

• Develop knowledge and skills in a range of areas related to mental health and wellbeing

• Learn from one another by sharing good practice

• Identify goals and targets for development

• Consider how skills and knowledge learned within sessions can be shared and disseminated within their setting

Trainers/Facilitators:

Educational Psychologists: Claire Rainier; Dr Brettany Hartwell

Trainee Educational Psychologist: Louisa Thomas

Other contributors:

Guest contributors will include voluntary agencies and school colleagues.

Focus group session leads:

Jo Wilson (Head of Programmes, Public Health); Phil Morgan (Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust) & Sara Rose (Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust)