The ‘choose well for mental health’ guide for children and young people – toolkit for partners
Overview
This toolkit has been put together to help people and partners promote and share a guide to help children and young people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield choose well for mental health.
The ‘choose well for mental health guide’ for children and young people aims to:
- Support people in looking after their mental health and wellbeing
- Inform people about how to access the right support when they need it
- Help people know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency.
Parents, carers, families and friends can also use the ‘choose well for mental health’ guide to look out for children and young people close to them and help them get the right support and advice.
The guide has been co-created with children and young people with lived experience, and specialist healthcare teams who work with them, carers and their families.
What’s included
The ‘choose well for mental health’ guide for children and young people covers a wide range of support and advice, including:
- Things people can do to help look after their own mental health, emotions and wellbeing (self-care)
- Talking to someone
- Family help and support
- GP practices and referral to mental health services
- Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) for help with specialist mental health concerns
- What to do in an emergency or crisis.
How you can help
We need your help in sharing this guide with as many young people, parents, carers and families as possible.
It is also important that we reach those who may work with young people, carers and families who may provide advice in a formal or informal capacity. This could include emergency service staff, voluntary and community sector staff and those working with young people in and outside of educational settings (e.g. sports clubs), to name just a few.
You can use the assets in this online toolkit to help:
- Share the guide with young people, parents, carers and families you may work with
- Share the guide with your staff
- Forward the guide and toolkit to other organisations you may work with
- Promote the guide on your website
- Share the details of the guide in internal and external newsletters
- Share social media posts
- Put up posters in your organisations
We really appreciate your help in getting this guide out to as many people as possible.
If there are any other assets which are not available in the toolkit which may be helpful, or if you have any questions, please email comms@swyt.nhs.uk
Choose well for mental health guide:
- A5 print ready guide (concertina leaflet)
- Easy Read (coming soon)
- Text only (webpage)
Assets:
Internal bulletin copy (long and short)
Short (63 words)
‘Choose well for mental health’ guide for children and young people
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, has a new guide for children and young people, to enable them to ‘choose well’ when looking after their mental health and wellbeing. It includes services in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. Please share this guide with people who may find it helpful.
Long (243 words)
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has created a ‘choose well for mental health’ guide for children and young people. The aim is to help people to ‘choose well’ when looking after their mental health and wellbeing.
The ‘choose well for mental health’ guide can:
- Support people in looking after their mental health and wellbeing
- Inform people about how to access the right support when they need it
- Help people know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency.
Parents, carers, families and friends can also use this guide to look out for children and young people close to them and help them get the right support and advice.
The guide has been co-created with children and young people with lived experience, and specialist healthcare teams who work with them, carers and their families.
It includes details of a wide range of support and services across Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield, including:
- Things people can do to help look after their own mental health, emotions and wellbeing (self-care)
- Talking to someone
- Family help and support
- GP practices and referral to mental health services
- Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) for help with specialist mental health concerns
- What to do in an emergency or crisis.
Please share this guide with those you work with who may find this helpful.
You can download a copy of the guide from the Trust website.
Social media
The hashtag to use is #ChooseWellForMentalHealth
Please tag @allofusinmind into any posts you would like us to like or share.
Graphics
- Cover – Facebook and Twitter
- Images – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
- Story – Facebook and Instagram
- GIF – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
Facebook posts
Facebook – post 1
We can all do our bit to help children and young people find the right support and advice for their mental health and wellbeing.
By sharing the new #NHS #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide, you can help children and young people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield…
- look after their mental health and wellbeing
- get access to the right support when they need it
- know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency.
Get the guide from the @allofusinmind – https://bit.ly/CYPchoosewellformentalhealth
Facebook – post 2
If you’re a parent, carer or work with children and young people, you can help them to choose well when looking after their mental health and wellbeing. A new guide for children and young people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield is now available from the #NHS [insert hyperlink].
You can use this guide to look out for children and young people close to you and help them get the right support and advice.
Get the guide from the @allofusinmind website – https://bit.ly/CYPchoosewellformentalhealth
#ChooseWellForMentalHealth
Facebook – post 3
We all have mental health, it’s all the things that go on inside your mind such as thoughts and feelings. Children and young people have mental health too. That’s why the #NHS in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield have a new #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide to help children and young people look after their mental health and wellbeing.
You can use the #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide to look out for children and young people close to you and help them get the right support and advice.
Get the guide from the @allofusinmind website – https://bit.ly/CYPchoosewellformentalhealth
#ChooseWellForMentalHealth
Instagram posts
Instagram – post 1
We can all do our bit to help children and young people find the right support and advice for their mental health and wellbeing.
By sharing the new #NHS #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide, you can help children and young people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield…
- look after their mental health and wellbeing
- get access to the right support when they need it
- know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency.
Get the guide by searching online for ‘SWYT choose well for mental health’
#ChooseWellForMentalHealth @allofusinmind
Instagram – post 2
If you’re a parent, carer or work with children and young people, you can help them to #ChooseWellForMentalHealth
A new guide for children and young people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield is now available from the #NHS.
You can use this guide to look out for children and young people close to you and help them get the right support and advice.
Get the guide by searching online for ‘SWYT choose well for mental health’
It includes loads of helpful information, including:
- Things people can do to help look after their own mental health, emotions and wellbeing
- Who you can talk to
- Family help and support
- GP practices and referral to mental health services
- Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) for help with specialist mental health concerns
- What to do in an emergency or crisis.
#ChooseWellForMentalHealth @allofusinmind
Instagram – post 3
We all have mental health, it’s all the things that go on inside your mind such as thoughts and feelings. Children and young people have mental health too. That’s why the #NHS in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield have a new #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide to help children and young people look after their mental health and wellbeing.
Get the guide by searching online for ‘SWYT choose well for mental health’
You can use the #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide to look out for children and young people close to you and help them get the right support and advice. It can help them to:
- look after their mental health and wellbeing
- get access to the right support when they need it
- know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency.
#ChooseWellForMentalHealth @allofusinmind
Twitter posts
Twitter – post 1
The new @allofusinmind #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide helps children and young people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield #ChooseWell when looking after their mental health and wellbeing. Get the guide: https://bit.ly/CYPchoosewellformentalhealth
Twitter – post 2
@allofusinmind have a new #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide. It’s for children and young people, parents, carers and families, to help you get the right support and advice. Get the guide: https://bit.ly/CYPchoosewellformentalhealth
Twitter – post 3
If you’re a parent, carer or work with children and young people, you can help them #ChooseWellForMentalHealth, download the guide from @allofusinmind – https://bit.ly/CYPchoosewellformentalhealth
Twitter – post 4
We can all do our bit to help children and young people find the right support and advice for their mental health and wellbeing. Share the @allofusinmind #ChooseWellForMentalHealth guide https://bit.ly/CYPchoosewellformentalhealth with people you know.
Story/reel (for Facebook and Instagram)
Please share the Story graphic images as a story/reel on Facebook and Instagram – a guide is below to which order these should be shared in.
- What’s on your mind? (use Story graphic 1)
- Mental health, it’s all the things which go on within your mind (use Story graphic 2)
- Whether good, bad, or changing every day, (use Story graphic 3)
- There are places to go and people to speak to if you need help. (use Story graphic 4)
- Search online for SWYT choose well for mental health (use Story graphic 5)
- #ChooseWellForMentalHealth (use Story graphic 6)
Website/intranet copy
Choose well for mental health – a guide for children and young people
A new guide to help children and young people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield choose well for mental health has been launched by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
The ‘choose well for mental health’ guide will enable people to find the right service for their mental health and wellbeing needs, and:
- Support people in looking after their mental health and wellbeing
- Inform people about how to access the right support when they need it
- Help people know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency.
Parents, carers, families and friends can also use the guide to look out for children and young people close to them and help them get the right support and advice.
The guide has been co-created with children and young people with lived experience, and specialist healthcare teams who work with them, carers and their families.
The ‘choose well for mental health’ guide for children and young people covers a wide range of support and advice, including:
- Things people can do to help look after their own mental health, emotions and wellbeing (self-care)
- Talking to someone
- Family help and support
- GP practices and referral to mental health services
- Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) for help with specialist mental health concerns
- What to do in an emergency or crisis.
You can download a copy of the guide from the Trust website.
Email copy (for parents/carers/onward cascade)
Subject:
Information about local mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people
Body:
We wanted to let you know about a new a ‘choose well for mental health’ guide for children and young people. The attached guide [please download and attach a copy of the guide to the email], has been created by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and covers support and services across Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.
The ‘choose well for mental health’ guide can be used by children and young people and/or by parents, carers, families and friends to:
- Support people in looking after their mental health and wellbeing
- Inform people about how to access the right support when they need it
- Help people know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency.
The guide has been co-created with children and young people with lived experience, and specialist healthcare teams who work with them, carers and their families.
We hope you find the ‘choose well for mental health’ guide helpful. You can download a copy from the Trust website.
Further information
This toolkit has been put together by the marketing and communications team at the Trust. If you have any questions, or would like further information, please email comms@swyt.nhs.uk.
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