We have developed a range of free mental health planning tools and resources that are available for use. We also share monthly mental health snippets that feature a range of information across the life course; from resources, research articles, reports, events, and learning opportunities.
We will continue to add to this page – please contact us at ggc.mhead@nhs.scot* if you have any questions or would like to make a suggestion.
*Please note that this is a generic admin inbox and not monitored immediately. If you, or someone you know are in distress and need an immediate response call the emergency services on 999 or NHS 24 on 111.
Planning Tools
Listed below is a range of planning tools across the life course to assist with planning and prioritising mental health improvement.
Children and Young People’s Mental Health
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Child and Youth Prevention and Early Intervention Framework: An evidence-based framework to support partners and organisations plan and prioritise for child and youth mental health improvement.
- Child and Youth Mental Health Policy Landscape: A policy landscape to highlight how our evidence-based child and youth mental health improvement prevention and early intervention framework links to some of the key policy drivers for child and youth mental health and how they interconnect to ultimately Get it Right for Every Child.
- 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.
Adult Mental Health
- Healthy Minds Adult Mental Health Improvement Framework: A strategic framework for promoting mental health in adults in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
- Adult Mental Health Policy Landscape: A policy landscape to highlight how our evidence-based mental health improvement framework links to and supports some of the key adult mental health policy drivers.
Mental Health Snippets
Our team produces and circulates a monthly mental health snippet that provides a range of information across the life course, including resources, research articles, reports, events, and learning opportunities. If you would like to sign up for our snippet, please contact ggc.mhead@nhs.scot.
Latest Snippet
Previous Editions
- September 2024 (Suicide Prevention Week 2024)
- August 2024 (Digital Youth Mental Health)
- June 2024 (Veterans Mental Health)
- June 2024 (Snappet)
- April 2024 (Mental Health Week 2024)
- March 2024 (Stress)
- February 2024 (Sleep)
- January 2024 (Financial Inclusion)
- December 2023 (End of Year Report)
- November 2023 (Stress Awareness Day)
- Health Improvement Team Snippet October 2023
- Health Improvement Team Snippet September 2023
- August 2023 (International Youth Day 2023)
- June 2023 (Infant Mental Health Week 2023)
- May 2023 (Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2023)
- May 2023 (Mental Health Awareness Week – Anxiety)
- April 2023 (Stress Awareness Month)
Aye Mind Newsletters
Latest Newsletter
Previous Newsletters
- Social Media Series 2 – Tik Tok
- Social Media Series – YouTube
- Issue 9 – Gaming (June 2024)
- Issue 8 – Sextortion (May 2024)
- Issue 7 – Mis/Disinformation (April 2024)
- Issue 6 – Grief (March 2024)
- Issue 5 – Social Media and Self-harm (February 2024)
- Issue 4 – Online Safety (January 2024)
- Issue 3 – Digital Inclusion (December 2023)
- Issue 2 – Screen Time (November 2023)
- Issue 1 – Welcome to Aye Mind (October 2023)
Social Media Series
Resources
We have developed a range of free resources on a range of themes that cut across the life course which are available for use:
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Resources
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Good Practice Guide
A resource to support Health Care Workers, Third Sector Partners, and any community organisations that are in contact with, supporting and/or working with new and expectant parents. It is underpinned the nine protected characteristics as set out in the Equality Act (2010).
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide
The Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide helps staff have conversations with parents about their mental health during the perinatal period and signpost to supports appropriate to their needs to prevent a mental health crisis from developing.
Download the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide or you can order free from the Public Health Resource directory.
For more information and resources, visit our Infant, Early Years, and Maternal Mental Health page.
Children and Young People Mental Health
Accessing Mental Health Support
Transforming Child and Youth Mental Health Poster
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
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 and Wellbeing Card
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 Apps, Helplines, and Websites Supports
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.
Loss and Bereavement
Resilience
Resilience Toolkit
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.
Resilience Poster
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
Resources for Early Years, Schools and Youth Providers
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
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 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).
On Edge Learning about Self-harm
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
Self-Harm Resources and Supports
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
Suicide Alert Resources
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
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.
For more information and resources, visit our Children and Young People’s Mental Health page.
Adult Mental Health
Accessing Mental Health Support
Transforming Adult Mental Health Poster
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
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
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.
Adult Mental Health Apps, Helplines and Websites
A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.
Loss and Bereavement
Resilience
Resilience Poster
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
Self-Harm Resources and Supports
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
Suicide Prevention Resources
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
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.
For more information and resources, visit our Adult Mental Health Page.
General Resources Across the Life Course
Resilience Poster
Top 10 Tips Poster: Downloadable, easy-to-follow tips for promoting resilience. Available to download in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Traditional Chinese, Urdu.
Grief after a Bereavement Poster
Self-Harm Resources and Supports
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
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
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.