Resources and support for schools, colleges and other professionals

• Just Talk guidance for schools, colleges and other professionals
• Just Talk Week 
• Other resources and support for professionals
• Promoting positive body image guidance
• The Sleep Factor lesson plans & PowerPoints
• Young peoples mental health in Hertfordshire - data
• Communications guidance and materials
• Find out how to join the Just Talk professional network

Just Talk guidance for schools, colleges and other professionals

• Schools and Colleges Toolkit 2023-24 (PDF 3.36mb) 
• Mental health awareness lesson plans, discussion guides and other guidance
• Top tips for parents leaflet (PDF, 45mb) – how to encourage their child to talk to them about their mental health.
• Anti-bullying guidance and other resources
• Posters for printing and display (PDF 24Mb)

Just Talk Week 

Check out the "Back to basics" resources from Just Talk Week 2023 including useful guidance for young people and adults about what to do if a young person tells you they're NOT ok. 

Check out the "Look Beneath the Surface" resources from Just Talk Week 2022 

These resources can be used all year round.

The Power of Small poetry competition 2024

Thank you to everyone who submitted their entries for this year's competition, the creativity and imagination demonstrated by Hertfordshire's young people was incredible.

Check out the shortlisted entries below:

• Digital booklet
• Printable booklet

Gift of Kindness poetry competition 2022

Just Talk received so many amazing entries - thanks to everyone who wrote a poem and to all the schools/colleges who submitted their winning entries.

Read the 20 shortlisted poems here.

Five Ways to Wellbeing resources, assets and e-learning

• Read about our Five Ways to Wellbeing here.

 Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) 

• Transformation Plan for Hertfordshire 2023/24 (PPTX 1.87MB)

Other resources and support for professionals

• Hertfordshire's mental health support  services - at a glance
• Children and young people's mental health services (CYPMHS) system directory
• Guidance for if a child/young person is avoiding school or college due to anxiety

If you're a professional working with children and young people in Hertfordshire and you'd like to know more about the services to support their emotional and mental wellbeing, subscribe to the monthly CYPMHS newletter by emailing: JustTalk@hertfordshire.gov.uk

As well as the fantastic information from our partner organisations, we'd recommend taking a look at these:

Resources

Promoting positive body image guidance

Help young people feel positive about their body: 

• Useful tips and advice for managing body image and mental health from Just Talk's Real Bodies in Herts campaign
• Body Image guidance and quality assured resources for professionals in schools, to promote positive body image in ALL pupils.
• Body Image and social media guidance: Communications guidance to support positive body image in young people.
• Help for under 18s in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet at:Report Remove | Childline

Webinars

• Body Positivity and Preventing eating disorders in children and young people (PPT 8.8kb) (from live webinar 28 June 2021)

  Body Image in children and young people (PPT 29.6kb) (from live webinar 28 June 2021)

The Sleep Factor lesson plans & PowerPoints

• The Sleep Factor lesson plans and powerpoints
• KS2 lesson plan on the importance of quality sleep
• KS3 and KS4 lesson plan on the importance of quality sleep

Young peoples mental health in Hertfordshire - data

Hertfordshire Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Surveys

• Results from previous surveys
• 2021 results webinar
• 2021 results Infographic
• 2020 results Infographic