Mental Health First Aid training
10 February 2021
"Thank you to Mental Health First Aid England for a wonderful day refreshing our knowledge and developing our skills to help us to work towards normalising society's attitudes and behaviours around mental health. A fantastic day of learning and interacting with other professionals." Lesley McNay, Specialist Women's Multiple Disadvantage Advocate
Safer Internet Day : online resources
09 February 2021
Today is Safer Internet Day and the NSPCC have produced some online resources to help you help your young people keep safe online. Follow the link to find out more. https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-resources/schools/safer-internet-resources?utm_source=NSPCC_Learning&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=AR4496*&utm_content=Safer-Internet-Day+CTA+Feb20&ac&_ga=2.50528169.1835335149.1612873150-1938332837.1605792694
Safer Internet Day : 9th February
08 February 2021
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021, we will celebrate the 18th edition of Safer Internet Day with actions taking place right across the globe. With a theme once again of "Together for a better internet", the day calls upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people.
Sexualised Trauma training with Zoe Lodrick
05 February 2021
"Zoe Lodrick’s training on sexualised trauma was informative and engaging throughout. She gave us a great insight into what happens in our brains during and after traumatic experiences. This facilitated some good discussion around how we as practitioners can use this understanding to better support traumatised individuals. Thank you, Zoe! " Eve Wright, Student social worker
Children’s Mental Health Week
02 February 2021
A new campaign is launching this week aimed at helping promote emotional well-being and resilience in children and young people. ‘This is how #WeveGotThis’ will get young people sharing their top tips on getting through the pandemic via social media platforms, such as TikTok and Instagram. Its launch coincides with Children’s Mental Health Week, which runs from 1-7 February. Norfolk County Council is leading the campaign, on behalf of the Norfolk Children’s Safeguarding Partnership, recognising the challenges that children, young people and their families are experiencing in lockdown.
#itsnotok
01 February 2021
We support Sexual abuse and sexual violence awareness week : 1st - 7th February, 2021.
Welcome…
28 January 2021
...to Eve-Marie Wright, student social worker, who joins us on placement from UEA for the next few weeks. We look forward to working with her.
Thank you for gift boxes.
18 January 2021
These lovely gift boxes are from Sadhia, who is currently working on a project to empower vulnerable young girls in Norwich; particularly working together with New Routes Integration Charity who support families of refugees, asylum seekers and isolated migrants living in Norwich, & hoping to distribute approximately 50 gift boxes (for FREE) to include basic sanitary and hygiene products as well as educational material for the young girls. Please see summarised a short story on the JustGiving Page of the project in general: Project PowHER Period, inspired by Scotland's new policy of making sanitary products free to access.
STIQ Day : 14th January
18 January 2021
Today is STIQ day : This sexual health awareness day is dedicated to sexual health & encourages people to get tested for STIs.
Online safety education resources from ThinkUKnow
11 January 2021
Remote and home online safety education resources from Thinkuknow from the CEOP education team : go to their website : https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/?utm_source=Thinkuknow&utm_campaign=c96a649dde-TUK_GLOBAL_12_11_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b54505554-c96a649dde-55217093