Mental Health literacy
Building mental health literacy means boosting employees’ knowledge and skills so they can better manage their own mental health and improve their ability to support that of others. Ensuring staff and managers have a good understanding of mental health, and the factors that affect workplace wellbeing, is essential for building a healthy, happy and high performing school.
Below we have provided some useful links and resources to help you build mental health literacy within your school.
Raising mental health awareness in schools
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Raising mental health awareness in schools
Spotting the signs of poor mental health and wellbeing
Here you'll find some useful tips on how to spot the signs of poor mental health and wellbeing in staff at your school.
The five ways to wellbeing
The fives ways of wellbeing were developed by the New Economics Foundation. The report below identifies five key actions around the themes of social relationships, physical activity, awareness, learning, and giving.
General wellbeing information for school staff
This page, on the Education Support website, provides a range of information to support staff wellbeing and increase mental health literacy.