Supporting The Mental Health Needs Of Looked After Children training

1 in 10 children and young people experience mental health problems in the UK. Foster carers have an important role to play in supporting children to be mentally healthy, and knowing the signs can help aid early appropriate intervention. This course enables learners to gain the necessary knowledge to understand mental health and identify signs and symptoms. It provides clear guidelines as to your role in supporting children with mental healthdifficulties.

Access this course as part of the following online course package(s):

Adoption

Foster Care

This course will cover:
  • What is good mental health?
  • The factors that influence mental health
  • The signs that there may be a mental health problem for a looked after child
  • How to start conversations about mental health
  • How to deal with low to medium risk situations
  • How to respond to a crisis situation
  • Promoting resilience for looked after children to help support their mental health needs

This Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Looked After Children course has been designed specifically for people who want to know more about supporting looked after children who are experiencing mental health problems. Whilst it provides focus for people working in Children's Services, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people who work with vulnerable young people.We can deliver this course either: online, as a webinar, or as a face-to-face programme. If you have your own LMS and would like this course as a SCORM file, please get in touch.

The online version of this course will take 4 hours to complete. The webinar versions are usually 2-3 hours long and face to face delivery will usually be around 4-5 hours.

You can access this course in three ways, as an online course, as a webinar, or with face-to-face delivery.

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Aims of the Supporting The Mental Health Needs Of Looked After Children course

By the end of the training, you will:

  • Understand what mental health is
  • Understand how poor mental health can affect adolescents
  • Recognise the signs and symptoms of poor mental health
    Better understand what you can do to help a young person with mental health issues
  • Know what to do when there is a low to medium concern for a young person’s mental health
  • Know how to help a young person with mental health difficulties who has been found in a crisis situation

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