The Good Childhood Report from The Children's Society highlights the challenges faced by children - challenges that can be tackled through prevention and early intervention. Here are their six steps to creating a better world for children: 🔹 Prevent crisis. Ensure early intervention and preventative support is in place before children hit crisis. 🔹 Prioritise wellbeing. Elevate children’s wellbeing to a national priority. 🔹 End child poverty. Eradicate child poverty so no child experiences worry or unhappiness due to their financial situation. 🔹 Improve girls’ wellbeing. Address the worrying levels of unhappiness among girls. 🔹 Reform the school experience. End unwarranted pressures on children and instead prioritise their happiness alongside achievement. 🔹 Let children play. Enrich their lives by providing safe, improved spaces for leisure and play so they can explore interests, develop friendships and socialise. This is needed because their report found that: 🔹 In 2022, 15-year-olds in the UK had the lowest life satisfaction across all of Europe. 🔹 Almost 1 in 3 girls in the UK have said they have low life satisfaction. 🔹 50% of young people have said not having money has stopped them from doing something they wanted in the past few months. Thank you for sharing this essential report. Check this link to find out why this matters: https://orlo.uk/a4qpx #AnnaFreud #MentalHealthCharity #MentalHealthMatters #ChildrensMentalHealth #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #ChildrenAndYoungPeople #ThinkingDifferently #Prevention #EarlyIntervention
Anna Freud
Mental Health Care
London, Greater London 72,515 followers
We're a mental health charity and we’ve been supporting children and young people for 70+ years. Monitored Mon-Fri 9-5.
About us
We're a mental health charity and we’ve been supporting children and young people for over 70 years. We listen to and learn from their diverse voices, and integrate this with learnings from our science and practice to develop and deliver mental health care. This holistic approach has world-changing potential – our training, schools support, networks, partnerships and resources equip those who impact children and young people’s lives with the knowledge and skills to support their mental health. We believe mental wellbeing is the foundation from which children and young people achieve their potential. By continually expanding our understanding and translating it into practice – grounded in science and guided by children and young people – we can ensure they get the right support at the right time.
- Website
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http://www.annafreud.org
External link for Anna Freud
- Industry
- Mental Health Care
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- London, Greater London
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Specialties
- Mental health research, Training for professionals working with children and families, and Mental health services for children, adolescents and families
Locations
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Primary
4-8 Rodney Street
London, Greater London N1 9JH, GB
Employees at Anna Freud
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Dr Dickon Bevington
Medical Director, Anna Freud National Centre; Consultant Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, CPFT; Cofounder of AMBIT; Author and trainer.
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Marjorie James FCIPD
Executive Director People & Culture
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Irina Nedelcu, PhD
Programme Manager - National Autism Trainer Programme
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Dr Brian M.
Updates
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Approximately 70% of autistic young people experience mental health issues, and many autistic children and young people experience challenges and barriers to learning in school. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. Autism and wellbeing in schools is a training and school development programme, helping schools to support the mental health and wellbeing of autistic students. The course is aimed at supporting school staff to increase their understanding of neurodiversity, specifically diagnosed and undiagnosed autistic students. The course has been developed by world leaders in the autism field and features resources co-produced by neurodivergent people of all ages. Book now: https://orlo.uk/BCtrg
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Going back to school can be tough for young people. We have resources to help you help them through it 💙 Lesson plan and teaching resources: https://orlo.uk/DBubn For education professionals: https://orlo.uk/zr8t5 For parents and carers: https://orlo.uk/6isQo #AnnaFreud #MentalHealthCharity #MentalHealthMatters #ChildrensMentalHealth #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #ParentingTalk #ParentingTeens #TeachingResources #TeacherResources #LessonPlan #BackToSchool
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Join us in welcoming our new CEO, Professor Eamon McCrory. Eamon has been at Anna Freud for 18 years. In that time, he’s helped to build our portfolio of postgraduate programmes in child mental health and co-founded the UK Trauma Council. In his first blog as Chief Exec, Eamon explains why innovation and collaboration are key to advancing support for children and young people’s mental health, and shares his thanks to his predecessor, Prof Peter Fonagy CBE. https://lnkd.in/ebi29kur #AnnaFreud #MentalHealthCharity #MentalHealthMatters #ChildrensMentalHealth #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth
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Do you work with children or young people who have experienced trauma? Join our next webinar from the UK Trauma Council where Professor Claudia Bernard and Dr. Marc Boaz will explore contextuality and systemic factors relating to complex trauma. We’ll delve into the contextuality of a child, young person or family’s needs and experiences, and how these intersect with wider systemic factors such as poverty, injustice, prejudice and parental or household experience of trauma. 🗓️ 26 September 🕰️ 5:00 – 6:30 pm 📍 Zoom Secure your spot now: https://orlo.uk/m0QNM #AnnaFreud #MentalHealthCharity #MentalHealthMatters #ChildrensMentalHealth #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #UKTraumaCouncil #Trauma #ChildhoodTrauma #MentalHealthPractitioner #ChildPsychologist
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Celebrating the champions of the Google London Summer Walk team! 🚶🏻 🌳 On Saturday they took on a 10km route along the Thames - and raised vital funds for our work for young people's mental health. We are incredibly grateful for their commitment to children and young people's wellbeing. Thank you, Team Google! Want to play a part in giving children a bright future? Check out how your organisation can get involved: https://orlo.uk/yyOIE #CorporatePartner #CharityPartner #CSR #CorporateSocialResponsibility #UltraChallenge #LondonSummerWalk #CharityFundraising #FundraisingChallenge #AnnaFreud #MentalHealthCharity #MentalHealthMatters #ChildrensMentalHealth #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth
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National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP) course dates are available to book from September through to November 2024. This free training is co-produced with autistic people and is available for staff working in NHS inpatient and community mental health, plus residential special education, and health and justice settings. The NATP train the trainer model allows staff to train their colleagues, and use the course content and resources, to embed NATP values and approach in their service. Find out more and book your free place: https://orlo.uk/BU8G3 NATP is run by Anna Freud in partnership with AT-Autism commissioned by NHS England. #AutismTraining #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance #AutismAwareness #MentalHealthTraining #NHS #AnnaFreud #MentalHealthCharity #MentalHealthMatters #ChildrensMentalHealth #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth
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What is trauma, and how can it make you feel? The UK Trauma Council, a project of Anna Freud, got together with young people from their Youth Advisory Board to make this animation. Watch the full video to hear their own stories and what recovery means to them: https://orlo.uk/YB87Z #AnnaFreud #MentalHealthCharity #MentalHealthMatters #ChildrensMentalHealth #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth
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Calling social workers and mental health practitioners! Discover an innovative framework to assess and support families with separated parents experiencing conflict over contact with and the living situation of their children. Explore interventions to help move families away from narratives of blame, protect children and reduce their involvement in Family Court, and re-instate contact between children and parents. Book now: https://orlo.uk/ZKfIL"
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Calling early years staff, mental health practitioners, and social workers! Discover how to use mentalizing to enhance your work with parents and carers and infants. Gain tools to support the parent-infant relationship and infant development, and to build your own mentalizing skills to manage challenging situations at work more effectively. Book now: https://orlo.uk/aIyz6 #MentalHealthPractitioner #Psychologist #Mentalizing