Senior Mental Health Lead training: New dates live
Due to popular demand, new dates are now available.
Sign up with the Anna Freud Centre, the UK's leading mentally healthy schools charity.
DfE grant funding is available to cover the cost of our Senior Mental Health Lead training.
Experiencing racism can have a significant impact on mental health.
We’ve been working with the Hon. Stuart Lawrence and BLAM UK to develop free resources for schools. These will support school leaders and staff to build a whole-school approach to anti-racism.
LGBTQI+ young people are over two-and-a-half times more likely to have a mental health problem as those who identify as heterosexual.
Coming out, fears of not being accepted by friends and family and the impact of discrimination can create feelings of exclusion and rejection, and destabilise good mental health.
Our new resource, LGBTQI+ mental health provides advice and support for LGBTQI+ young people seeking help for mental health problems.
We’ve been working with children’s services leaders to codesign mental health support for our most vulnerable children and families.
The result is our new clinical offer, Supporting children, families, and the workforce.
It’s the start of a national conversation to develop sustainable change for those left behind by covid.
On My Mind is the Centre's offer for young people aged 12-25 which includes a range of free digital resources to help you manage your mental health and wellbeing. Includes the Youth Wellbeing Directory, where you can find free support local to you, and over 90+ self-care strategies identified by young people themselves.
The Centre offers a range of advice and guidance to parents and carers including adoptive parents, foster carers, special guardians and kinship carers.
We’re transforming mental health by working with infants, children, young people and their families, their communities and professionals to deliver timely evidence-based support for all.
On My Mind aims to empower young people to make informed choices about the mental health support they want, the treatments they receive and the outcomes they desire.
Early Years in Mind is a free online network for early years practitioners that provides easy to read and easy to use guidance on supporting the mental health of babies, young children and their families.
Schools in Mind is a free network for education professionals which shares practical, academic and clinical expertise about mental health and wellbeing in schools and FE colleges. The network aims to translate research into practice by providing evidence-based, accessible information and resources that can be used to embed good mental health across the whole school community.
This month we have expanded our free Mentally Healthy Schools information and resource hub to support all secondary schools and FE settings across the UK. Want to learn more?
The Anna Freud Learning Network brings together the best in practice and the latest in policy. It is a space to share learning and expertise and to collaborate to develop new ways of working.
The UK Trauma Council (UKTC) is the first UK-wide platform enabling collaboration between individuals and organisations holding expertise in childhood trauma.
Come and work with us at the centre!
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Talking racism and mental health in schools
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