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Cancer Talk
Macmillan's on-line resource guide for teachers and youthgroup leaders looking to download lesson plans, find out what support is available for young people and how to get involved in fundraising.
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HandsOnScotland
HandsOnScotland is an online resource for anybody working with children and young people. The website provides practical information and techniques on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour, build up their self-esteem and promote their positive mental wellbeing.
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Healthy Schools-Emotional health and wellbeing guidance
Emotional health and wellbeing contributes significantly to all five national outcomes for children/young people
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Health Promoting Schools
Information and resources to help schools take positive steps towards better health and well-being
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Inside Out
InsideOut offers Whole School Emotional Health & Wellbeing Training.  They help children and young people successfully deal with choice, change and challenge in their school life and beyond, and offer school staff support programmes, tools, strategies and resources.
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Jenny Moseley Circle Time
Achieving excellence through building self-esteem. Quality circle time activities, training and conferences and resources.
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Making sense of health
An educational and community health, web-based resource for teachers and young people in primary and secondary education, and also for parents and public health professionals. It is a preventative health resource that aims to empower young people to make better lifestyle choices, engage with community health issues, become better informed patients and use the NHS more appropriately.
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MoodMon
MoodMon is a new, innovative, software package for use with an interactive whiteboard – or – if preferred – a stand alone computer. MoodMon records the emotions chosen by the children, across the school, at any time during the day. We suggest morning and afternoon registration times as a routine, but how it is used is limited only by the creativity of the user. A trial is available by visiting their website.
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Social Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties Association-SEBDA
SEBDA's membership consists of teachers, educational psychologists, education officers, social, care, youth and mental health professionals who work with or for children and young people said to have SEBD
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The National Healthy Schools Programme (NHSP)
Helps schools develop a whole-school approach to promoting young people’s health and wellbeing. The programme supports the link between health, behaviour and achievement – it is about healthy and happy children and young people doing better in learning and in life.
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TheSite.org
TheSite.org aims to be the first place all young adults turn to when they need support and guidance through life
Advice on health and wellbeing and more.
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists website
Mental health information web area that has a section on children and young people
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Young Minds
Young Minds is committed to improving the mental health of all babies, children and young people.
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YouthHealthTalk
This is a website about young people’s real life experiences of health and lifestyle. This is not just a website about the medical facts, this is about real people and real lives. Watch, listen and read young people talking about their experiences
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