Foyer Health: February 2008

Young Minds www.youngminds.org.uk
The leading national charity on mental health and children and young people. Have online information for young people, professionals and parents. Excellent leaflets on coping with being a teenager, coping at schools, self harm, depression and more.

Royal College of Psychaitrists

www.rcpsych.ac.uk
The website includes online factsheets for teachers and students on subjects including bereavement, eating problems, depression, divorce, and stress. A new CD ROM teaching resource is also available Self Harm and Young People

Self Harm
Website of the national inquiry into self harm and young people. Useful information sheets for teachers and families and good links section. Up to date research on the issue.

http://www.selfharmuk.org/

Mental Health Foundation www.mentalhealth.org.uk
The Mental Health Foundation works to improve the lives of everyone with mental health problems or learning disabilities.

Samaritans www.samaritans.org.uk
Provides an email advice service and telephone helpline 08457 90 90 90 and lots of useful information and advice about mental health.

MIND www.mind.org.uk

BBC www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health

Site giving information on mental health

Depression Alliance www.depressionalliance.org
Charity for those affected by depression

Eating Disorders Association www.edauk.com
Information and help on all aspects of eating disorders.

Changing Minds www.changingminds.co.ukAnti-stigma campaign by Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Be...foundation www.be-foundation.org
Aims to offer a comprehensive source of help and information on youth suicide and deliberate self-harm.

Rethink www.rethink.org
Rethink aims to help everyone affected by severe mental illness to recover a better quality of life.

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health www.scmh.org.uk

Healthy Schools www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk

Antidote: Campaign for Emotional Literacy www.antidote.org.uk
Antidote aims to create an emotionally literate culture, where the ability to handle emotional life is as widespread as the capacity to read, write and do arithmetic.

Lucky Duck Publishing
www.luckyduck.co.uk
The creators of the no blame approach to bullying.

National Emotional Literacy Interest Group www.nelig.com
The site aims to promote and resource emotional literacy defined as, "the ability to recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express emotions" for both young people and adults. It includes articles and signposting to useful teaching resources on emotional literacy that may be of use to teachers.

Very useful guidelines and resources on promoting emotional literacy in schools including books for children and emotions vocabulary available to download from:

http://www.nelig.com/pdf/selig_guidelines.pdf

Youth In Mind http://www.youthinmind.com/

Check out http://www.ru-ok.com/ - a site set up to support learning mentors and teachers

Bullying
Bullying Online www.bullying.co.uk
This website provides help and advice on bullying issues for pupils, parents, governors and teachers. It also includes legal advice, school projects and suggestions for work in class and youth clubs.
Kidscape www.kidscape.org.uk
Kidscape is a registered charity that aims to keep children safe from harm or abuse. The site includes advice for young people and parents who are being bullied as well as publications and leaflets produced by the organisation.

Anti-Bullying Alliance www.ncb.org.uk/aba

Other Useful Publications
Nurturing Emotional Literacy – Peter Sharp
A practical guide for teachers, parents and those in a caring profession. This book helps to recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express their emotions. How we manage our emotions and positive impact that emotional literacy can have on improving standards in schools has been overshadowed recently by the attention given to the 3 R’s. This handbook seeks to redress this and looks at the importance of the fourth R – relationship. Specific ideas for working with children, teachers, parents and carers, makes this book ideal for all concerned with developing the whole child.

Brand and Communication Guidelines

Here are the Brand and Communication Guidelines for Foyer Health.

To obtain the original artwork for logos for design purposes please email laura@foyer.net

Physical Activity Resources

Why is exercise so important? Here are the answers.

Why not have your own physical activity diary? Or a Weekly Activity Planner

Try out our Physical Activity Quiz

Some other resources you migth want to use:

Mind Guide to Physical Activity - http://www.mind.org.uk/

Get Active Resource Book

Ideas for young people

Web Guide to Physical Activity

Ideas from Foyers

Briefing Paper on Physical Activity from the British Nutrition Foundation

Physical Activity Questionnaire

Monitoring your Foyer Health Programme

Monitoring your Foyer Health programme is an essential requirement of your Foyer Health Partnership Agreement.

Ongoing payments from the Big Lottery Fund to the Foyer Federation, and therefore, payment from the Foyer Federation to your Foyer, are dependent on successful delivery of your targets, which are evidenced by the monitoring information you provide.
We are required to provide quarterly monitoring reports to the Big Lottery Fund, and so will require you to provide quarterly reports to us.

Some of the evaluation tools are still under development in consultation with Foyers, but here are a selection of resources to help you with your monitoring opportunities:

This Monitoring Overview will help make the importance of monitoring clear, as well as some of the benefits of monitoring.

Foyer Health Monitoring Form

Foyer Health Beneficiaries Details Form

Monitoring Form for Wider Beneficiaries

Foyer Health Accreditation Standards

An important part of the Foyer Health programme is to pilot and achieve health accreditation standards. This is an essential part of ensuring that Foyers become healthy places to live, learn and work beyond the three years of the Big Lottery funding. It is also an exciting opportunity to lead the way in creating a new framework for a healthy setting in Foyers, alongside the National Healthy Schools Scheme, Healthy Colleges, healthy hospitals and prisons and healthy workplace initiatives.

Here is some more information about Foyer Health Accreditation Standards

Core Health Standards
Specialist Accreditation Module for Healthy Eating
Foyer Health Accreditation Standards
Foyer Health spacialist Accreditation Module Worksheet

For further information contact nerys@foyer.net

Wednesday, 6 February 2008

Foyer Health Launch Events

Fancy making a fuss about Foyer Health? Well, what are you waiting for....
Put on your glad rags, put up the bunting and get the party started.

To make your launch event go with a bang try using these resources for your taster sessions:

Proforma for planning and evaluating your taster sessions and launch events.
Taster Session signing in sheet
Taster Session Evaluation Form for young people

Foyer Health Resources

We have put together a whole host of resources to accompany Foyer Health, and to help support you. We have also found some resources provided by other organisations which we think will be useful.

Setting Healthy Eating Goals and keeping a Food Diary.

Set some healthy eating goals. And try using this Five a Day Chart

Why not try keeping a Food Diary? Fill out Your Food Diary here.

Why not try setting yourself some healthy eating goals? Or check out some of these healthy eating ideas from young people.

Try some ideas for healthy catering and use a healthy catering checklist.

Resources from organisations committed to supporting health and well-being.

Department of Health 'Five A Day' Leaflet
www.dh.gov.uk

Five A Day Order Form for accompanying resources from the NHS

The Mind Guide to Food and Health, from leading mental health charity, Mind.
http://www.mind.org.uk/

The British Heart Foundation's 'Food Should Be Fun and Healthy' booklet.
www.bhf.org.uk

Community Cook and Eat Training

Norwich Union's 'Cook and Eat Toolkit'

British Nutrition Foundation's 'Healthy Eating Leaflet'