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Resources and Planning Tools

We have developed a range of free mental health planning tools and resources that are available for use. We also share monthly mental health snippets that feature a range of information across the life course; from resources, research articles, reports, events, and learning opportunities.

We will continue to add to this page – please contact us at ggc.mhead@nhs.scot* if you have any questions or would like to make a suggestion.

*Please note that this is a generic admin inbox and not monitored immediately. If you, or someone you know are in distress and need an immediate response call the emergency services on 999 or NHS 24 on 111.

Planning Tools

Listed below is a range of planning tools across the life course to assist with planning and prioritising mental health improvement.

Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Adult Mental Health

Mental Health Snippets

Our team produces and circulates a monthly mental health snippet that provides a range of information across the life course, including resources, research articles, reports, events, and learning opportunities. If you would like to sign up for our snippet, please contact ggc.mhead@nhs.scot.

Aye Mind Newsletters

Resources

We have developed a range of free resources on a range of themes that cut across the life course which are available for use:

Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

Resources
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Good Practice Guide

resource to support Health Care Workers, Third Sector Partners, and any community organisations that are in contact with, supporting and/or working with new and expectant parents. It is underpinned the nine protected characteristics as set out in the Equality Act (2010).

Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide

The Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide helps staff have conversations with parents about their mental health during the perinatal period and signpost to supports appropriate to their needs to prevent a mental health crisis from developing.

Download the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide or you can order free from the Public Health Resource directory.

For more information and resources, visit our Infant, Early Years, and Maternal Mental Health page.

Children and Young People Mental Health

Accessing Mental Health Support 
Transforming Child and Youth Mental Health Poster

Transforming Child and Youth Mental Health Poster: The resource illustrates what the Child and Youth Prevention and Early Intervention Framework can look like in action to support partners from across sectors to use it.

Accessing Mental Health Support – Child and Youth Poster

Accessing Mental Health Support – Child and Youth Poster: A poster illustrating the different ways in which mental health supports can be accessed; from 1 to 1 support, reading, group work, phone, and online. Anyone working with children and young people can download it to populate it with their own update to date information on an ongoing basis, relevant to their organisation, locality area, and wider.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Card

Mental Health & Wellbeing Card: Our Mental Health and Wellbeing Card provides details for mental health support organisations in each of the 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and West Dunbartonshire. It also provides helpful tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing and who to contact if you feel someone is in distress.

Child and Youth Mental Health Apps, Helplines, and Websites Supports

Child and Youth Mental Health Supports: A document that maps out the range of available mental health supports for children and young people to access, including websites and helplines.

Loss and Bereavement
Grief after a Bereavement

Grief After A Bereavement: A poster resource sharing information on healthy ways in which we can manage our grief. Available to download in various languages, including: ArabicCantoneseFarsiKurdish SoraniMandarinPolishPunjabiRomanianSlovakUrdu

Resilience
Resilience Toolkit

Resilience Toolkit: This Emotional Resilience Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of young people as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme.

Resilience Poster

Top 10 Tips Poster: A downloadable poster that includes top 10 tips for developing resilience. Available to download in ArabicFarsiKurdish SoraniPolishPunjabi, RomanianSimplified ChineseSlovakTraditional ChineseUrdu.

Resources for Early Years, Schools and Youth Providers
Resources for Early Years, Schools and Youth Providers

Resources for Early Years, Schools, and Youth Providers: A comprehensive document that offers a range of suggested resources that can be used in early years, schools, and by youth providers to help protect, promote, and support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Whilst this is not an exhaustive list, the resources highlighted have been developed by Education and Health colleagues and National Mental Health organisations.

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement: This guidance aims to support practitioners to increase their knowledge and understanding on the subject of bereavement, loss, and change and how to support children and young people through this.

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement and CYP Mental Health Framework: Illustrates how the loss and bereavement resource links to the NHSGGC Child and Youth Mental Health Improvement and Early Intervention Framework.

A Whole Establishment Approach to Self-harm Training and Awareness for Early Years and Schools

A Whole Establishment Approach to Self-Harm Training and Awareness for Early Years and Schools: A resource to support schools and early years’ establishments take a planned and co-ordinated approach to self-harm awareness and training that will help equip staff with the self-harm knowledge and skills appropriate to their role. Watch the video. (Please note, if this resource is used by schools and early years, they should always refer to the Government Whole School Approach Mental Health and Wellbeing).

On Edge Learning about Self-harm

A resource pack for teachers and professionals working with children and young people. It includes teaching support materials and further information in the form of signposting to external resources and advice services, references, and linked where relevant to the Curriculum for Excellence and other national guidance. Download via the links below:

Supporting Materials

Self-Harm
Self-Harm Resources and Supports

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of self-harm information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Suicide Prevention
Suicide Alert Resources

Suicide alert resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports: a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of suicide prevention information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines, and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

For more information and resources, visit our Children and Young People’s Mental Health page.

Adult Mental Health

Accessing Mental Health Support
Transforming Adult Mental Health Poster

Transforming Adult Mental Health Poster: The resources illustrates what the framework can look like in action to support partners from across sectors to use it.

Adult Mental Health Supports Poster

Adult Mental Health Supports Poster: A poster showing the ways in which mental health supports can be accessed; from 1 to 1 support, reading, group work, phone, and online. The resources allow anyone working with adults to populate with their own update to date information on an ongoing basis, relevant to their organisation, locality area, and wider. It is a reusable, wipe-clean resource.

Healthy Minds Pocket Guide

Healthy Minds Pocket Guide – Our mental health and wellbeing card provides details for a mental health support organisation in each of the 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and West Dunbartonshire. It also provides helpful tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing and who to contact if you feel someone is in distress.

Adult Mental Health Apps, Helplines and Websites

resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Loss and Bereavement
Grief after a Bereavement

Grief After A Bereavement: A poster resource sharing information on healthy ways in which we can manage our grief. Available to download in various languages, including: ArabicCantoneseFarsiKurdish SoraniMandarinPolishPunjabiRomanianSlovakUrdu

Resilience
Resilience Poster

Top 10 Tips Poster: Downloadable, easy-to-follow tips. Available to download in ArabicFarsiKurdish SoraniPolishPunjabi, RomanianSimplified ChineseSlovakTraditional ChineseUrdu.

Self-Harm
Self-Harm Resources and Supports

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of self-harm information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Resources

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports: a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of suicide prevention information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines, and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Suicide ALERT Resources

Suicide ALERT resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

For more information and resources, visit our Adult Mental Health Page.

General Resources Across the Life Course

Resilience Poster

Top 10 Tips Poster: Downloadable, easy-to-follow tips for promoting resilience. Available to download in ArabicFarsiKurdish SoraniPolishPunjabi, RomanianSimplified ChineseSlovakTraditional ChineseUrdu.

Grief after a Bereavement Poster

Grief After A Bereavement: A poster resource sharing information on healthy ways in which we can manage our grief. Available to download in various languages, including: ArabicCantoneseFarsiKurdish SoraniMandarinPolishPunjabiRomanianSlovakUrdu

Self-Harm Resources and Supports

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of self-harm information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

Suicide Alert Resources

Suicide Alert Resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Suicide Prevention Resources

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports: a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of suicide prevention information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines, and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

LGBTQ+ Resources

LGBTQ+ Resources and Supports: A document that brings together a range of information and supports for LGBTQ+ communities across the life course, from perinatal and infant mental health, children and young people, through to adults.