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FEEL SAFE
Imagine a school with a mental health professional on hand every week, for staff, for children, for parents.
FEEL HOPE
For staff to have a referral pathway when they need it and quickly and for parents to have chance to offload and seek advice on how to support at home.
WHO WE ARE
Bridge the Gap Child Mental Health C.I.C. are a Derby based emotional health hub for children aged between 5 and 25 years. We want ALL children to feel that they matter, that they are loved and that they are not alone.
WHAT WE DO
We have a multi-disciplinary team who deliver high quality emotional education and long term mentoring to children to support their mental health. Sadly, statistics show that in Derby, the likelihood of a child taking their own life is significantly higher than national averages. We work closely with schools and other partners in the city to ultimately save children's lives.
school packages
Do you want to become a Bridge the Gap School? If you would like to have mental health support for your students, parents and teachers then why not enquire about a bespoke package of support.
Mental health crisis, suicide and self-harm is touching every school community and we want schools to feel confident in knowing how to keep children and staff safe.
We can arrange a visit to see your school and you can meet us and ask questions about the difference we can make to school mental health and engagement and learning in the classroom.
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Training
At Bridge the Gap Child Mental Health we deliver training in key areas of supporting child and family well-being. We are passionate and committed to helping organisations find a space to learn about topics in a way that informs and empowers them with knowledge that truly makes a difference to both staff and the children or families that they come into contact with.
Emotional Literacy underpins all of our training and how that links to the prime areas of learning and development, once we understand this we can begin to move forwards helping people to go below the surface to areas that are often talked about at surface level.
Your team will come away with a deeper understanding of mental health and be confident in knowing more about how to join all of the elements that effectively supporting mental health entails.
Please find details of some of the areas that we specialise in at the bottom of this page, if there is something that you would like to explore but you don't see it on this page then please get in touch, we will be honest about whether we would be the best people to explore this with you.
Our aim is to improve child mental health in our local city and beyond, our training helps you to be able to be a part of that difference.
Parents
At Bridge the Gap Child Mental Health we have created many different workshops for parents over the years, these are developed to help raise parents confidence in being able to support their child's mental health proactively. By sharing valuable information in an accessible and relatable way, we are able to build connections that support parents to support their child.
Schools have succesfully funded us to deliver parent empowerment sessions in school as well as parent and child emotional literacy sessions.
We also deliver both in-person and online workshops in all areas that we deliver our training for professionals in - all are adapted to ensure that they are appropriate for the people in the room, with the age and the concerns of their child. We are always happy to answer any questions throughout.
As with all of our sessions the space is safe and completely non-judgmental, delivery is relaxed and informal.
3-week parent empowerment sessions:
Week 1 - Explaining anxiety to children
Week 2 - Responding to an anger outburst
Week 3 - Building your child's strategy toolbox
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During the pandemic we took our training online by creating online courses that parents and teachers can work through at their own pace as well as creating online lessons that provided schools with quality emotional education lessons that they could deliver both for at home and classroom learning. This led to us creating a whole school online platform.
The platform currently consists of 4 1-hour CPD sessions, over 32 lessons in both primary and secondary education as well as giving teachers AND school parents access to the courses - 'Supporting Child Mental Health: an in-depth approach' and 'Supporting an Anxious Child'.
We cover everything from anxiety, mental health, self-esteem, goal setting, growth mindset, friendships, empathy and emotional literacy. If you are interested in finding out more about the content and how your school can gain full access for just £1000 per year then please get in touch by emailing our school liaison officer richardwyman@jwbridgethegap.com or by calling 01332 600827.
The platform continues to grow and your price stays the same, no matter how much new content is created.
Examples of
Training
Offered
*Emotional Literacy
Understanding emotional development, and building authentic emotional resilience.
*Supporting an Anxious Child
Understanding anxiety, worry and panic and how to educate and support children in these areas.
*Social Media and the Impact on Mental Health
Understanding how social media is impacting our children and how we can guide and support them with its use.
*Raising Self-esteem
Exploring what self-esteem is and how we can help children to build it Moving away from artificial rewards and boosting authentic self-esteem to improve and protect mental health and growth mindset.
*Connection and Co-regulation
Understanding behaviour, what it is, what it looks like and what it tells us about a child's needs alongside practical tools and knowledge around how to connect and co-regulate to reduce the need for de-escalation.
Let’s Work Together
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