Making a difference for children with SEMH: How to create a culture of wellbeing and provide targeted intervention

Join us on Thursday 4 May at 5pm – 6pm for the LEARN LIVE webinar ‘Making a difference for children with SEMH: How to create a culture of wellbeing and provide targeted intervention.
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In this session Clare discusses the need for qualitative, targeted SEMH provision and programmes to support the 1 in 6 children with mental health needs. (NHS Digital 2021).

How do we support children to manage in a learning context when they are struggling with their social and emotional development and mental health? How do we support children to express, understand and be able to regulate their feelings and experiences in order to manage in the learning environment and how do we equip the SEN and pastoral adults to feel confident to support the children in their care who have mental health and behaviour needs in a system where external services are stretched?

The session will highlight:

• The context for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing
• Whole school culture and how to ensure wellbeing is central through policy and practice.
• The vital need for qualitative and targeted intervention that centres around social and emotional development and acquisition of skills for life and learning.
• A comprehensive wellbeing intervention programme that offers creative activities, supporting resources and impact measurement tools.

About Hamish & Milo

Hamish & Milo is a comprehensive and detailed resource that offers the language and creative activities to support SEN and pastoral staff to know what to say and how to help primary-aged children to express and regulate themselves. The whole programme offers a set of ten different wellbeing intervention packs that focus on key emotional themes: friendship, resilience, anxiety, diversity, angry feelings, change, conflict, loss, sadness and self-esteem. Each of the programmes consist of detailed session plans delivered weekly over a term and provide all supporting materials and impact measurement tools.

Clare Williams

Clare is a primary teacher and educational psychotherapist, author, speaker and advocate for children’s mental health and wellbeing.

Clare has worked in primary schools, mental health and education provision and within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She has led on national initiatives for local authorities as the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) Consultant, leading on training, curriculum implementation and development as well as the local coordination of the National PSHE CPD programme.

She was a consultant trainer for the Institute of Education, London, and a trainer for the Education Development Association at Homerton College, Cambridge, providing courses for overseas teachers.

As the manager of a multi-agency service for vulnerable children at risk of exclusion, Clare developed Thrive Education Zones, an alternative provision based on nurture principles.
Through this work she became all too aware of the impact adverse childhood experiences can have on children and their long-term mental health.

Clare was co-author and co-creator of the Jigsaw PSHE programme and author of Trauma Informed Schools UK (TISUK) Rainbow Pathway: Return to school programme, resources to support children through the experience of the pandemic. She has worked therapeutically with children and families and as a Wellbeing Therapist for Total Children’s Therapy and was the Strategic Mental Health Lead and Consultant for stormbreak, a charity supported by BBC Children in Need that centres on mentally healthy movement. Clare was central in developing the mental health content within their programmes. Clare is a Senior Trainer, Consultant and Supervisor for TISUK and leads on delivery of the TISUK diploma.

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