Cowes Enterprise College has been chosen to host Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) to support the mental health and wellbeing of its students.
The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is a newly established service that offers evidence-based interventions in the treatment of mild to moderate mental health conditions.
The MHST on the Isle of Wight is a multi-agency collaborative formed of the Isle of Wight Youth Trust, Barnardo’s and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust. They are currently in their pilot year of service development and initially working in only 8 schools.
Cowes Enterprise College has always put the mental health and wellbeing of students and staff at the heart of its ethos. By offering this additional service, the academy further strengthens its already supportive safeguarding and inclusion teams.
The EMHPs have begun their work with students being offered ‘low intensity cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) based interventions’, which offer a toolkit of support to address many common, developing or emerging mental health conditions.
Vice Principal, Jemma Harding, said:
“We are very excited about this next layer of provision we are able to offer here at the academy for our children. We are committed to promoting resilience and a positive mental health and wellbeing for both students and staff.
“Being happy and healthy is the first step to being successful. Cowes Enterprise College places well-being at the heart of our academy and we ensure that our packages of excellent support and intervention are bespoke through a thorough understanding of individual needs.”
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CEC has always put the mental health and well-being of the students and staff at the heart of our ethos. Not if your child is being bullied it doesn’t
Well done Steve, for recognising that CEC has always put the student’s and staff’s mental health and well-being at the heart of their ethos. With all large communities, which rely on a significant level of personal interaction, CEC is recognised for its ability to strive towards creating a harmonious and productive working environment, where all stake-holders thrive and grow personally and as a collective. Along that journey, some will experience difficulties in their relationships, how pleasing to know that inspired by the professionalism of the Senior Management Team, CEC will always support, review and respond, to those difficulties.
It’s not some that experience difficulties along the way it is a lot and if you don’t believe that stand outside the school at the end of the school day and hear the children being abused by other school children as they try to make their way home. How about their mental health and how many have left the school because of bullying