Promoting Mental Health for the Whole School

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• Promoting Mental Health for the Whole School

SCHOOLS PROJECT
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Schools Project
HSE PSYCHOLOGY
NEPS PSYCHOLOGY
MEATH VEC
SCHOOL
ADOLESCENT HEALTH TEAMS
CARE TEAMS
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Schools Project
REGULAR INTERAGENCY MEETINGS
Community Garda
Child Adolescent Mental Health Services
Youth Reach
SCHOOL
Institute of Guidance Counsellors
SPHE
Children Services Committee
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Schools Project
St. Peters College, Dunboyne
Annette Clarke, Jigsaw Schools Facilitator,
Meath VEC
Beaufort College, Navan
Athboy Community School
St. Olivers Post Primary, Oldcastle
Youth Reach, Laytown
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Schools Project
EVALUATION RESEARCH
UCD PSYCHOLOGY
MY WORLD SURVEY
ONGOING EVALUATION
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Schools Project
ADOLESCENT HEALTH TEAMS
CARE TEAMS

• Identifying supports for the whole school
• Examining policies
• Finding innovative solutions locally
• Promoting mental wellbeing

Identifying young people in distress
and specific interventions for them
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Model for Mental Health Support
AHT Care Team
HEALTH
EDUCATION
Adolescent Health Team

• Principal
• Guidance Counsellor
• SPHE Teachers
• 2 Parents
• 2 Students
• HSE Psychologist
• NEPS Psychologist
• Community Garda
• Student Counsellors
• Past Pupil

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Whole School Mental Health System
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Whats different about this project?

• The interaction between the Schools, NEPS and HSE
• The evolution of counselling services to schools
• Student Support Services within a whole school
  context and effects on
• Anger, alienation and anxiety in young people
• A positive impact on learning
• A solutions focused approach to school retention
  and positive behaviour
• Identifying students at risk so that issues of
  self-harm and suicide are promptly addressed
• Access to and use of Data
• The use of the student voice stress binge
  drinking bullying peer-mentoring
• Raising the levels of connectedness and
  positivity towards school

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Any Questions
EAMONN GAFFNEY , Principal, CARLY CRAWFORD,
Adolescent Health Team, TARA MORAN DEAN
NGUYEN, St. Peters College, Dunboyne 01
825 2552 stpeters_at_meathvec.ie ANNETTE CLARKE,
Jigsaw Schools Facilitator, Meath
VEC 0861930400 aclarke22_at_meathvec.ie LORCAN
FINGLETON, Project Manager, Jigsaw
Meath 0879435757 046 9071702 lorcan.fingleton_at_jigs
aw.ie
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Facebook

• Presentation for the students of St. Peters
  College, Dunboyne,
• Co. Meath.

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Introduction

Adolescent health team - teachers, students, parents and other members of the community. Identifying the most common factors that affect students mental, physical and emotional health. Presentation compiled by Carly Crawford, Kim Deens, Ben Carolan and Brendan Rowan.
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Facebook Profiles

• We have set up to fake profiles to use as
  demonstrations.
• These are completely fictional and for
  demonstrative purposes only.
• Meet Sally and Peter!

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Privacy Settings

• Who knows what their privacy setting is on
  Facebook??
• Recommended - we do not recommed this.
• Friends of Friends This is not safe as most of
  your friends contacts will be unknown to you.
• Custom - This is highly recommended.
• Friends only - This will not give you the
  protection that

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Mobile Phone Settings

• Facebook on your phone?
• Different settings to you PC settings.
• Checking in? you might want to think about who
  can see that!

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Changes in Settings

• What happens when Facebook changes its privacy
  settings?
• You signed up for this - it was in you terms and
  conditions that you agreed when you started to
  use Facebook.

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Who has your details?

• Facebook, of course!
• Applications
• Games - 22 million active users of farmville and
  mafiawars

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Get me off Facebook!!

• Sadly, once youve signed up, your profile will
  remail online.
• You can never delete a profile - only deactivate
  it.

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What belongs to you?

• Information on your page - once you deactivate
  your profile that information is no longer
  accessible - but it can be retrieved.
• Posts on any one elses page from you remains
  THEIRS. You cannot control anything once youve
  left it on someone elses page.
• Those comments are now subject to your friends
  privacy settings.

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Advertising

• Ever noticed how all the ads you see on Facebook
  are something you might be interested in?
• Facebook tracks key words you use on Facebook in
  order to direct specific advertising your way.

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Consequences

• Anything you share on Facebook can be retrieved
  by anybody, anywhere, anytime.
• Once something is uploaded onto the internet it
  is traceable.
• You may regret something you post up - but even
  if youve deleted it - it can still be used
  against you!!
• Leaving your privacy settings open means that you
  may attract unwanted attention.

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Cyberbullying

• Who knows what cyberbullying is??
• Comments/status updates/pages/fake profiles have
  all been used to cyberbully before.
• Cyberbullying is just as bad as any other type of
  bullying - sometimes it can be worse because the
  bully says it from behind a computer.
• Phoebe Prince and Facebook
• Megan Meier and MySpace

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Our Goal

• The purpose of this is not to make everyone
  deactivate their Facebook accounts. Responsible
  use of Facebook is our goal. Understanding the
  privacy settings is extremely important.

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The End

• What have you learned?
• Any questions?

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Thank You!
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Any Questions
EAMONN GAFFNEY , Principal, CARLY CRAWFORD,
Adolescent Health Team, TARA MORAN DEAN
NGUYEN, St. Peters College, Dunboyne 01 825
2552 stpeters_at_meathvec.ie ANNETTE CLARKE, Jigsaw
Schools Facilitator, Meath VEC 0861930400 aclarke2
2_at_meathvec.ie LORCAN FINGLETON, Project Manager,
Jigsaw Meath 0879435757 046 9071702 lorcan.finglet
on_at_jigsaw.ie