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Sherborne House Accreditation
16th January 2024
Sherborne House School in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire receive AcSEED Award
The AcSEED Newsletter
28th July 2022
AcSEED Newsletter for July 2022
UK Government blog
21st July 2022
What we are doing to improve the mental health of children and young people
AcSEED at MHW Show 2022
11th May 2022
AcSEED were a presenter and exhibitor at the Mental Health and Wellbeing show in Cardiff on 10th May 2022
Wistaston Accreditation
25th April 2022
Wistaston Church Lane Academy in Crewe, Cheshire receive AcSEED Award
Gorse Hall Accreditation
7th April 2022
Gorse Hall Primary and Nursery School in Stalybridge, Cheshire receive AcSEED Award
Crosby High Accreditation
7th April 2022
Crosby High School in Crosby, Merseyside receive AcSEED Award
St Olave's Accreditation
1st April 2022
St Olave's Grammer School in Orpington, Kent receive AcSEED Award
St Paul's Accreditation
19th August 2021
St Paul's Church of England Primary School in Stalybridge, Cheshire receive AcSEED Award
The AcSEED Newsletter
14th December 2020
AcSEED Newsletter for December 2020
On-line Wellbeing Support
11th December 2020
Kooth: An on-line Mental Health Support Platform
Mental Health in Schools Conference
11th November 2020
Report from the Westminster Insight conference on Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools
Fairfield Road Accreditation
20th October 2020
Fairfield Road Primary School receive AcSEED Award
Newport Girls' get AcSEED Award
31st August 2020
Congratulations to Newport Girls' High School in Shropshire ...
First AcSEED Wellbeing Centre
25th June 2019
Trinity School and College opens the first AcSEED Wellbeing Centre
Listening to Young People
25th September 2012 ... Charlotte
Today I along with two other representatives from YoungMinds visited the local child and adolescent inpatient unit to run a workshop with the young people. It was the second of these workshops that we have run in the unit. The aims of the sessions are to:
- Raise awareness of YoungMinds and the VIK project
- Provide recovery inspiration/ hope for CAMHS inpatients
- Decrease feelings of isolation prompted by being an inpatient
- Empower individuals to make positive changes in their lives
- Provide a distraction in the inpatient day
- Increase inpatient participation schemes
- Link with outpatient participation work
We split into small groups and had discussions around some predetermined questions relating to young people's mental health. What struck me yet again was how passionately young people felt about mental health education in schools. In many schools PHSE covers STI's and pregnancy however little or nothing is generally said about mental health, which is shocking as one in ten young people will suffer with a mental illness. Schools have a responsibility to consider the emotional health of their students as well as striving for academic achievement. In my local area it seems that the community is finally starting to recognise that some schools do a lot more to support their students than others and this is where the role of AcSEED is so important.
