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Just Talk

The Just Talk Hertfordshire partner agencies have worked together to produce a large number of resources to be used with young people and parents. They're to raise mental health awareness and normalise conversations about mental health.

 

Toolkits and guidance

Five Ways to Wellbeing

Contains all the information and resources you need to promote the Five Ways to wellbeing.

School and college toolkit (PDF, 2.5mb)

Contains all the information and resources you need to promote Just Talk in your school or college (Years 5-13). Contact us if you need hard copies.

Clubs outside of schools toolkit (PDF, 2.5mb)

Contains all the information and resources you need to promote Just Talk at youth groups, sports clubs or other groups of young people aged 9 or over.

Boys and men - making mental health accessible for all (PDF, 1.5mb)

Guidance for any individual, team or organisation that promotes or engages people in mental health services.

Checklist - engaging boys and men (DOC, 19kb)

Make sure you're doing enough to engage with boys and men

Schools best practice (PDF, 227KB)

Promoting the mental wellbeing of children and young people in Hertfordshire Schools

Free resources guidance training directory (PDF, 629KB)

Free ready made resources, videos and toolkits for School professionals, parents and young people

Looking after your mental health and wellbeing during Coronavirus (PDF 148kb)

Information for children and young people

Teaching about body image (PDF 138kb)

Guidance and quality assured resources for professionals in schools to promote positive body image in ALL pupils. After schoolwork, pupils across Hertfordshire identify their "appearance" as the thing they worry about most, affecting almost half of all young people.

Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey Results 2021

The Hertfordshire Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey was undertaken in November 2020.

Results : full and summary reports

View the full and summary reports for the Young People’s Health & Wellbeing Survey 2021 at the link below:

https://www.hertshealthevidence.org/yphws/what-is-the-yphws.aspx

Results 2021 Infographic

Results: webinar

Watch the Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey 2021 Results webinar. It provides an overview of the results and is for any professional who works with or for young people in Hertfordshire.

If you have any questions or feedback please contact us at E: YPHWS@hertfordshire.gov.uk

The full webinar is 40 minutes, 54 seconds long:

If you’d prefer to watch specific sections of the full webinar above, the links to each section are below:

Introduction (2 minutes, 15 seconds)

Key Messages (4 minutes, 40 seconds)

Mental Health and Bullying (9 minutes, 27 seconds)

Sexual Health Drugs and Alcohol (7 minutes, 47 seconds)

Healthy Lifestyles (5 minutes, 32 seconds)

School Feedback (1 minute, 32 seconds)

How to use and interpret the survey results  (7 minutes, 54 seconds)

Thank you (1 minute, 6 seconds)

Social media

Social media joint agreement (DOC, 75kb)

We encourage all agencies across Hertfordshire that talk about mental health on social media, to adhere to the Hertfordshire social media agreement. This was developed as part of the county’s Suicide Prevention Plan.

Communications and social media plan (PDF 384KB)

To normalise positive conversations about mental health, we need to work together to get messages out as widely as possible. Take a look at our communications and social media plan.

Social media images (ZIP 7.6MB)

A selection of images for you to use to help promote Just Talk

Template presentation slides

We have developed these presentations (ZIP 4.77MB)Opening in a new window for you to use in your schools or other settings. There's a primary, secondary and parent version.

The notes section for each slide provides you with example scripts and further information.  You can adapt these slides for your setting. Contact PublicHealth@hertfordshire.gov.uk if you have any questions about how to use these slides or if you wish to order printed copies of resources.

Lesson plans, discussion guides and exercises including positive body image and social media guidance 

These lesson plans have been designed to raise mental health awareness in the classroom.  The Reach Free School have developed additional resources which you may find useful when planning to deliver the lessons.

This is a short quiz that can help to dispel some of the myths surrounding mental health.  You can use this, or you could do the Time to Change quiz online.

Web and digital resources

A range of PNG vector files and a high resolution logo for promoting the Just Talk campaign on your website. There's also a slide for screens in waiting rooms.

Download web and digital resources (ZIP, 2.9mb)

Films 

Young people worked with us to create short films to raise awareness of the positive impact that talking can have on our mental health.

Please share them far and wide!

If you decide to create your own Just Talk film and share it with us, please use this consent form for any children or young people (PDF, 35kb) who feature in the film.

Find out how easy it is to use #JustTalk resources in your school and the positive impact it is already having on young people’s mental health

 

 

 

 

Self help tools to share with young people you work with and other useful websites

As well as the fantastic information from our partner organisations, we'd recommend taking a look at these: