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There is more hunger in
the world for love and appreciation than for bread...
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This website was commissioned by HeadsUpScotland, the National Project for children and young people’s mental health, in response to recommendations from the SNAP (Scottish Needs Assessment Programme) report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2003). The SNAP report found that many frontline workers from all agencies feel they lack the practical skills and confidence to help children and young people who have troubling behaviour.
These children or young people may be waiting to see a mental health specialist or they may have already received specialist assessment, but need ongoing support from frontline workers. Alternatively, they may not need to see a specialist, but they need someone to help them through a difficult time in their lives. If help is given early enough, when a problem appears, it may not become a serious issue. So this website was developed to provide the information and tools to help frontline workers to offer help and support to children and young people in such situations.
We hope that this website will give you the information, tools and confidence to help you understand, think about and act to help the children and young people you see who have troubling behaviours. We have consulted with frontline workers throughout the development of the website to ensure that the content is relevant and useful. We believe that this website is an ongoing, dynamic process and we welcome your feedback so that we can continue to improve the site. You can provide specific feedback about individual topics on the appropriate topic page, or general feedback about the toolkit by e-mailing us.
The website, launched on 6 June 2007, was developed by Playfield Institute in partnership with Barnardo’s and the University of Dundee, School of Nursing.
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