What HeadsUP Offer

HeadsUP offer FREE sessions, currently funded by WEB PCN, Exmouth Town Council, Health Opportunities Devon CIC, Norman Family Trust and Woodward Trust.

Current programmes on offer:

Forward Thinking Prevention Sessions: Educating children & young people on how to look after their mental health and equipping them with knowledge of more specific topics including:

• What is mental health?
• The difference between mental health and mental illness
• How to look after your mental health
• The media (including social media) and mental health
• Self confidence
• Building resilience
• Mental health and physical health
• Dealing with Anxiety
• Dealing with Low mood
• Dealing with Anger

These can be delivered as assemblies, class or small group sessions.

Run With Your Feelings: Joint sessions delivered with our partner agencies. Sessions are based around looking after our mental health and the positive relationship between mental and physical health.

Mental Health Ambassadors Workshops: This workshop trains young people to be champions for mental health and lead wellbeing initiatives in their school communities. By empowering young people with skills and knowledge to support their own and their peers’ wellbeing, we aim to prevent early mental health problems and create positive experiences of talking about mental health.

Navigating Change Transitions Programme: Year 5 and 6 sessions (class, small group or 1-1) looking at the following topics:

• Understanding what worry and anxiety are
• Learning how to recognise worry and anxiety
• How to deal with worry and anxiety
• Anxieties and worries around secondary school
• The opportunities that secondary school offers

Specialist One to One Sessions: Sessions for young people who are struggling with their mental health. These sessions will equip and empower young people with techniques to help themselves when they are finding life difficult.

Feedback: –

School feedback –

We have been working with the HeadsUP team since its early stages. There is such a huge need for mental health support for young people and the work that HeadsUP do is invaluable. At our school, HeadsUP have helped to put mental health really high up on the school agenda – for pupils and staff. They work with school leaders, teachers and groups of children to help shape our approach to teaching children about their mental health, and they have also led lessons to improve children’s knowledge. They have been especially supportive of our Year 6 children and their families, helping them manage the big step up to secondary school. As a result, our Year 6 children describe feeling confident about their secondary education and are also able to say different ways that they will reach out for help if they face difficulties. Children in our community have benefited from 1:1 HeadsUP sessions, too. These are vital for some children who need urgent, specific help so that they can thrive in school and at home. 

Stuart Dyer (Head of School, Brixington Primary Academy)

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Parent feedback –

My son ****** has recently finished his ‘heads up’ story. He worked with Tammie and was really in need of some guidance/ help to navigate his way through life. He is now equipped with so many more coping strategies to help guide him through the future. I feel he’s been so fortunate to have received this care and guidance. ****** is 7 and he is well on his way to understanding who he is and how to be okay when he may wobble or feel his bucket is full. You couldn’t really ask for more. Thank you to Tammie and team for making this happen.

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Parent feedback –

I can’t express how much more freedom and lighter we all feel after your intervention with *****. He has been so brave and has opened up so much more at home, trying new things. He is going to the toilet by himself, sitting in his bedroom in the morning and listening to stories/reading which he always used to do, singing around the house again, which we hadn’t heard him do in a year.  He has been talking to me about if he found his day hard and why and we have been talking about it.  It has made the whole house feel lighter.  I know he is a very capable young boy, but his anxiety and fear was really holding him back so that we weren’t seeing the real *****.  Now he is returning back to how he used to be a little more everyday, more relaxed and happier in himself and with us.