Our Emotional Wellbeing Team are on hand to support in any way we can.
Should you require support at any time please do seek out these members of staff for assistance. If you feel your child would benefit from a consultation please contact the school on 01634 944575
What do we do?
Student Support For Emotional Health and Wellbeing
At Alchemy Schools we have our own Emotional Health and Wellbeing (EHWB) team, and Mental Health Lead. The Mental Health Lead is Molly Gould. Linked closely with the DSL and Pastoral Support Leads, the Mental Health Lead and EHWB mentors support students who are experiencing significant struggles with their emotional wellbeing. Sessions are completed on a 1:1, weekly basis, and focus on unpicking any emotional distress, identifying potential triggers to dysregulation, and progressing onto learning about appropriate regulation strategies. This support also extends to parents/carers too, with designated staff often helping to empower families to make meaningful changes.
Alchemy Schools also has a Mentor Programme. The team is made up of skilled and experienced mentors who support students through 1:1 sessions. Sessions are specific to the student and are centred around particularly challenges they want to address, learning the life skills to make meaningful changes. This includes work such as supporting students to develop their confidence to go into shops, learning more about road awareness, nurturing social skills, managing unfamiliarity more effectively, completing consequential thinking work, increasing independence etc. Mentors will develop a rapport with the students by dedicating their time to get to know them and focus on areas of interest.
Alchemy also offers the Drawing and Talking intervention; a 12-Week, early intervention programme.
Students who require additional mental health support, are also referred to external agencies including Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS). We all always gain consent from parents and young people prior to the referral being completed and remain in contact with the services to gain updates of the support being offered.
Useful Links and Contacts
Useful Links and Contacts:
- Emergency Services: Dial 999
- Childline: 0800 1111
- Release the Pressure: Call 0800 107 0160
- Kent & Medway CYPMHS Crisis Line: Call 0800 011 3474 for the 24/7 single point of access for under-18s
- ChatHealth: A confidential text service run by the Kent School Health Service specifically for 11 to 19-year-olds. Text 07520 618850 (Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
- Kooth : An online mental health community giving free and confidential advice for young people aged 10 to 25 years old Home – Kooth
- Calm Harm: An app that adolescents can use to help regulate their emotions
- Better U: A free app offering mental health support
- Harmless: An app that adolescents can use to help regulate their emotions.
- Live Well Kent: free mental health support for people aged 17 and over Welcome | Live Well Kent
- Free Talking Therapies in Kent and Medway
- Salus: A mentoring programme that supports emotional wellbeing and coping skills Improving the lives of children – Salus
- Oasis: Safe support for LGBTQIA+ children and young people Oasis – KTATSS
- The BeYou Project: BeYou | Oasis Domestic Abuse Service – connects young people in Kent and Medway who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary or are questioning their sexual orientation and / or gender identity. They offer a safe, welcoming and non-judgemental space where young LGBT+ people can meet to socialise, have fun and help each other
- Medway gender sexual diversity centre: MGSD Centre – <b>Medway Gender Sexual Diversity Centre</b></br> Because Gender Matters – The South East Gender Initiative (SEGI) project Medway Gender & Sexual Diversity Centre (MGSDC) provides a place where LGBTQI+ people their families and friends can meet in a safe environment to enable them to receive peer support, education, training, advice, and information. They have a building located in Rochester where they hold support groups. They have a lot of different services accessible through their website.
- Rainbows over Medway: rainbowsovermedway.co.uk/lander?oref=https%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2F – A support and signposting service for LGBTQ+ individuals in Medway. They have a lot of information on their Facebook page.
- Childline: Sexuality | Childline – They offer online support and advice.
- Good Thinking: provides online resources to help children and young people with their mental health. Digital mental health and wellbeing support for Londoners | Good Thinking
- Young Lives Foundation: A peer mentoring service to help build confidence, independence, and resilience. The Young Lives Foundation: Listen – Support – Empower
- Slide Away Bereavement Support: Welcome to Slide Away
- Holding on, Letting Go Bereavement Support: Home – Holding on Letting Go
- We Are With You: One-to-one support for young people aged 11-25 living in Kent who are facing challenges with drugs and alcohol Support for Young People and Their Families in Kent | WithYou
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