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About the event
Creating a trauma informed and mentally healthy culture in schools benefits every member of the school community: staff parents and most significantly children and young people. A whole school approach ensures that every child grows, develop sand learns in a psychologically safe environment that protects their mental health and ensures they are supported to achieve their full potential and develop the capacity to live life well. Children enter the school system either with the advantage of experiences that allow them to take every opportunity offered to them or disadvantaged by their experiences of adversity. They then find themselves further disadvantaged by the responses to the adaptive behaviours that have helped them survive. This can leave young people with limited pathways to health, wellbeing and success. School as a pathway to public health ensures that the environment promotes psychological safety, enables equity and inclusion and facilitates children to be able to live life well, interrupting the cycle of intergenerational trauma.
Learning outcomes
- To understand how adversity alters brain and body systems which can translate into behaviours that challenge society.
- To understand the components of a mentally healthy and trauma informed culture in school.
- To identify the ways in which schools can create psychological safety and support the recovery from adversity.
About the speakers
Director of Education and National Strategy TISUK
Former Headteacher of a Primary Alternative Provision. Over 23 years of experience as a qualified teacher in supporting children and young people with social, emotional and mental health difficulties and/or challenging behaviour at both a practitioner and senior leadership level within both the mainstream and specialist sectors. Previously Trust Lead for Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) and Inclusion for a large academy trust in Cornwall. Education Consultant supporting teachers, education professionals and counsellors with individuals and groups of challenging and/or vulnerable children.
I am passionate about inclusion, supporting children and young people to be the best they can be by helping them to remove the barriers preventing full engagement in life and learning. I have a particular interest and expertise in supporting schools to develop a fully inclusive approach with both students and members of the school community, facilitating an environment where the mental health and well being of all is central to the school ethos.