Resources and Planning Tools

Transforming Child and Youth Mental Health Poster: The resource illustrates what the Child and Youth Prevention and Early Intervention Framework can look like in action to support partners from across sectors to use it.

Accessing Mental Health Support – Child and Youth Poster: A poster illustrating the different ways in which mental health supports can be accessed; from 1 to 1 support, reading, group work, phone, and online. Anyone working with children and young people can download it to populate it with their own update to date information on an ongoing basis, relevant to their organisation, locality area, and wider.

Mental Health & Wellbeing Card: Our Mental Health and Wellbeing Card provides details for mental health support organisations in each of the 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and West Dunbartonshire. It also provides helpful tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing and who to contact if you feel someone is in distress.

Child and Youth Mental Health Supports: A document that maps out the range of available mental health supports for children and young people to access, including websites and helplines.

Grief After A Bereavement: A poster resource sharing information on healthy ways in which we can manage our grief. Available to download in various languages, including: Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Mandarin, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovak, Urdu

Resilience Toolkit: This Emotional Resilience Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of young people as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme.

Top 10 Tips Poster: A downloadable poster that includes top 10 tips for developing resilience. Available to download in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Traditional Chinese, Urdu.

Resources for Early Years, Schools, and Youth Providers: A comprehensive document that offers a range of suggested resources that can be used in early years, schools, and by youth providers to help protect, promote, and support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Whilst this is not an exhaustive list, the resources highlighted have been developed by Education and Health colleagues and National Mental Health organisations.

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement: This guidance aims to support practitioners to increase their knowledge and understanding on the subject of bereavement, loss, and change and how to support children and young people through this.

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement and CYP Mental Health Framework: Illustrates how the loss and bereavement resource links to the NHSGGC Child and Youth Mental Health Improvement and Early Intervention Framework.

A Whole Establishment Approach to Self-Harm Training and Awareness for Early Years and Schools: A resource to support schools and early years’ establishments take a planned and co-ordinated approach to self-harm awareness and training that will help equip staff with the self-harm knowledge and skills appropriate to their role. Watch the video. (Please note, if this resource is used by schools and early years, they should always refer to the Government Whole School Approach Mental Health and Wellbeing).

A resource pack for teachers and professionals working with children and young people. It includes teaching support materials and further information in the form of signposting to external resources and advice services, references, and linked where relevant to the Curriculum for Excellence and other national guidance. Download via the links below:

• On Edge Pack
• Updated Resource Pack Information: Please download this updated information to support with the delivery of the pack.
• Appendix 1: Policy context to illustrate On Edge links to some of the key health, education, and youth work policy drivers

Supporting Materials

• Lesson 1 Plan – Understanding the term ‘Self-harm’
• Lesson 1 PowerPoint – Understanding the term ‘Self-harm’
• Lesson 2 Plan – Dealing with Difficult Feelings
• Lesson 2 PowerPoint – Dealing with Difficult Feelings
• Lesson 3 Plan – Exploring Stereotypes
• Lesson 3 PowerPoint – Exploring Stereotypes
• Lesson 4 Plan – Getting Help
• Lesson 4 PowerPoint – Getting Help
• See Me Scotland Videos

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of self-harm information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Suicide alert resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports: a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of suicide prevention information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines, and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Transforming Adult Mental Health Poster: The resources illustrates what the framework can look like in action to support partners from across sectors to use it.

Adult Mental Health Supports Poster: A poster showing the ways in which mental health supports can be accessed; from 1 to 1 support, reading, group work, phone, and online. The resources allow anyone working with adults to populate with their own update to date information on an ongoing basis, relevant to their organisation, locality area, and wider. It is a reusable, wipe-clean resource.

Healthy Minds Pocket Guide – Our mental health and wellbeing card provides details for a mental health support organisation in each of the 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and West Dunbartonshire. It also provides helpful tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing and who to contact if you feel someone is in distress.

A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Grief After A Bereavement: A poster resource sharing information on healthy ways in which we can manage our grief. Available to download in various languages, including: Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Mandarin, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovak, Urdu

Top 10 Tips Poster: Downloadable, easy-to-follow tips. Available to download in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Traditional Chinese, Urdu.

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of self-harm information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports: a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of suicide prevention information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines, and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Suicide ALERT resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.