Mental Health Improvement

We have developed a range of free mental health planning tools and resources that are available for use. We also share monthly mental health snippets that feature a range of information across the life course; from resources, research articles, reports, events, and learning opportunities.

We will continue to add to this page – please contact us at ggc.mhead@ggc.scot.nhs.uk if you have any questions or would like to make a suggestion.

*Please note that this is a generic admin inbox and not monitored immediately. If you, or someone you know are in distress and need an immediate response call the emergency services on 999 or NHS 24 on 111.

Planning Tools

Listed below is a range of planning tools across the life course to assist with planning and prioritising mental health improvement.

Children and Young People’s Mental Health

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Child and Youth Prevention and Early Intervention Framework: An evidence-based framework to support partners and organisations plan and prioritise for child and youth mental health improvement.
Child and Youth Mental Health Policy Landscape: A policy landscape to highlight how our evidence-based child and youth mental health improvement prevention and early intervention framework links to some of the key policy drivers for child and youth mental health and how they interconnect to ultimately Get it Right for Every Child.
A Whole Establishment Approach to Self-Harm Training and Awareness for Early Years and Schools: A resource to support schools and early years’ establishments take a planned and co-ordinated approach to self-harm awareness and training that will help equip staff with the self-harm knowledge and skills appropriate to their role. Watch the video for more information. Please note, if this resource is used by schools and early years, they should always refer to https://www.gov.scot/publications/whole-school-approach-mental-health-wellbeing/

Adult Mental Health

Healthy Minds Adult Mental Health Improvement Framework: A strategic framework for promoting mental health in adults in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Adult Mental Health Policy Landscape: A policy landscape to highlight how our evidence-based mental health improvement framework links to and supports some of the key adult mental health policy drivers.

Mental Health Snippets

Our team produces and circulates a monthly mental health snippet that provides a range of information across the life course, including resources, research articles, reports, events, and learning opportunities. If you would like to sign up for our snippet, please contact ggc.mhead@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.

Latest Snippet

April 2024 (Mental Health Week 2024)

Previous Editions

Aye Mind Newsletters

Latest Newsletter

Issue 7 – Mis/Disinformation (April 2024)

Previous Newsletters

Resources

We have developed a range of free resources on a range of themes that cut across the life course which are available for use:

Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

Resources

Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Good Practice Guide

A resource to support Health Care Workers, Third Sector Partners, and any community organisations that are in contact with, supporting and/or working with new and expectant parents. It is underpinned the nine protected characteristics as set out in the Equality Act (2010).

Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide

The Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide helps staff have conversations with parents about their mental health during the perinatal period and signpost to supports appropriate to their needs to prevent a mental health crisis from developing.

Download the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prevention and Early Intervention Guide or you can order free from the Public Health Resource directory.

For more information and resources, visit our Perinatal and Infant Mental Health page.

Children and Young People Mental Health

Accessing Mental Health Support

Transforming Child and Youth Mental Health Poster

Transforming Child and Youth Mental Health Poster: The resource illustrates what the Child and Youth Prevention and Early Intervention Framework can look like in action to support partners from across sectors to use it.

Accessing Mental Health Support – Child and Youth Poster

Accessing Mental Health Support – Child and Youth Poster: A poster illustrating the different ways in which mental health supports can be accessed; from 1 to 1 support, reading, group work, phone, and online. Anyone working with children and young people can download it to populate it with their own update to date information on an ongoing basis, relevant to their organisation, locality area, and wider.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Card

Mental Health & Wellbeing Card: Our Mental Health and Wellbeing Card provides details for mental health support organisations in each of the 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and West Dunbartonshire. It also provides helpful tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing and who to contact if you feel someone is in distress.

Child and Youth Mental Health Apps, Helplines, and Websites Supports

Child and Youth Mental Health Supports: A document that maps out the range of available mental health supports for children and young people to access, including websites and helplines.

Loss and Bereavement

Supporting Those Affected by Bereavement

Supporting Those Affected by Bereavement: A staff guide that provides information, resources, and signposts to organisations that offer support to those struggling with grief as a result of bereavement. *Developed for Primary Care Staff working in GP practices across Glasgow City, however, contains lots of useful information and resources for anyone supporting those affected by bereavement*

Grief after a Bereavement

Grief After A Bereavement: A poster resource sharing information on healthy ways in which we can manage our grief. Available to download in various languages, including: Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Mandarin, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovak, Urdu

Resilience

Resilience Toolkit

Resilience Toolkit: This Emotional Resilience Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of young
people as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme.

Resilience Poster

Top 10 Tips Poster: A downloadable poster that includes top 10 tips for developing resilience. Available to download in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Traditional Chinese, Urdu.

Resources for Schools and Youth Organisations

Resources for Schools and Youth Organisations: A comprehensive document that offers a range of suggested resources that can be used in schools to help protect, promote, and support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Whilst this is not an exhaustive list, the resources highlighted have been developed by Education and Health colleagues and National Mental Health organisations.

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement: This guidance aims to support practitioners to increase their knowledge and understanding on the subject of bereavement, loss, and change and how to support children and young people through this.

Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement and CYP Mental Health Framework: Illustrates how the loss and bereavement resource links to the NHSGGC Child and Youth Mental Health Improvement and Early Intervention Framework.

A Whole Establishment Approach to Self-harm Training and Awareness for Early Years and Schools

A Whole Establishment Approach to Self-Harm Training and Awareness for Early Years and Schools: A resource to support schools and early years’ establishments take a planned and co-ordinated approach to self-harm awareness and training that will help equip staff with the self-harm knowledge and skills appropriate to their role. Watch the video. (Please note, if this resource is used by schools and early years, they should always refer to the Government Whole School Approach Mental Health and Wellbeing).

On Edge Learning about Self-harm

A resource pack for teachers and professionals working with children and young people. It includes teaching support materials and further information in the form of signposting to external resources and advice services, references, and linked where relevant to the Curriculum for Excellence and other national guidance. Download via the links below:

On Edge Pack
Updated Resource Pack Information: Please download this updated information to support with the delivery of the pack.
Appendix 1: Policy context to illustrate On Edge links to some of the key health, education, and youth work policy drivers

Supporting Materials

Positive Mental Attitudes

Positive Mental Attitudes Curriculum Pack: A pack developed to support teachers and practitioners to engage with young people about mental health issues. The lessons can be used individually and put together to provide a whole school approach to mental health education. Although the pack is several years old, much of the information is still relevant. A supporting addendum has been produced to include up-to-date information and signposting to new media resources.
Positive Mental Attitudes (PMA) and the CYP Mental Health Framework: Illustrates the PMA resource links to the NHSGGC Child and Youth Mental Health Improvement and Early Intervention Framework.

Supporting Materials

Self-Harm

Self-Harm Resources and Supports

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive resource for staff providing support and advice to people who may be using self-harm as a coping strategy.

Suicide Prevention

Suicide alert Resources

Suicide alert resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports

Suicide Prevention Resources and Supports: a comprehensive document for the wider public health workforce that brings together a range of suicide prevention information for staff relating to learning, resources and websites, helplines, and keeping safe. The information is targeted at the Informed and Skilled levels as set out in the Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention Framework.

For more information and resources, visit our Children and Young People’s Mental Health page.

Adult Mental Health

Accessing Mental Health Support

Transforming Adult Mental Health Poster

Transforming Adult Mental Health Poster: The resources illustrates what the framework can look like in action to support partners from across sectors to use it.

Adult Mental Health Supports Poster

Adult Mental Health Supports Poster: A poster showing the ways in which mental health supports can be accessed; from 1 to 1 support, reading, group work, phone, and online. The resources allow anyone working with adults to populate with their own update to date information on an ongoing basis, relevant to their organisation, locality area, and wider. It is a reusable, wipe-clean resource.

Healthy Minds Pocket Guide

Healthy Minds Pocket Guide – Our mental health and wellbeing card provides details for a mental health support organisation in each of the 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and West Dunbartonshire. It also provides helpful tips for looking after your mental health and wellbeing and who to contact if you feel someone is in distress.

Adult Mental Health Apps, Helplines and Websites

A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Loss and Bereavement

Grief after a Bereavement

Resilience

Resilience Poster

Top 10 Tips Poster: Downloadable, easy-to-follow tips. Available to download in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Traditional Chinese, Urdu.

Self-Harm

Self-Harm Resources and Supports

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive resource for staff providing support and advice to people who may be using self-harm as a coping strategy.

Suicide Prevention

Suicide Prevention Resources

Suicide ALERT Resources

Suicide ALERT resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

For more information and resources, visit our Adult Mental Health Page.

General Resources Across the Life Course

Resilience Poster

Top 10 Tips Poster: Downloadable, easy-to-follow tips for promoting resilience. Available to download in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Traditional Chinese, Urdu.

Grief after a Bereavement Poster

Suicide Alert Resources

Suicide Alert Resources: for staff working in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area to support you if you are talking with someone who may be at risk of suicide. It explains the ‘ALERT’ model and provides some ideas for putting it into practice, as well as useful information about support services and suicide prevention resources. Resources include a briefing note and prompt sheet. A resource directory of mental health apps, helplines, and websites to support staff with signposting and sharing of information that is appropriate to need.

Suicide Prevention Resources

Self-Harm Resources and Supports

Self-Harm Resources and Supports is a comprehensive resource for staff providing support and advice to people who may be using self-harm as a coping strategy.

This page provides information about our Healthy Minds mental health awareness-raising resource. If you have any questions about the resource or would like to hear more about it, please contact ggc.mhead@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.

What is the Healthy Minds resource?

Healthy Minds is a universal resource which aims to promote basic awareness and understanding of mental health and topics that are associated with and can impact on mental health and wellbeing. It is a cascading and capacity building resource that aims to support partners and organisations deliver on the public mental health agenda. The focus of Healthy Minds is prevention and early intervention.

The sessions can be delivered in person or online. Please read our Healthy Minds information leaflet carefully before accessing the resource: Healthy Minds Information leaflet.

Who can use Healthy Minds?

The resource is aimed at anyone who has an interest in raising awareness of mental health and wellbeing. You don’t need any prior experience or qualifications to deliver any of the sessions. It is not a training resource but a tool to raise awareness of basic mental health and areas that can impact on mental health and wellbeing.

Healthy Minds by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, meaning it can be used and adapted to suit your own purposes.

The Healthy Minds Collection

There are 18 sessions available to download on a range of areas that can impact on mental health and wellbeing. Each session has a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes and handout to guide you through delivering the sessions. You can browse the full collection below:

00. Healthy Minds Information Session

Anyone can deliver a Healthy Minds session to raise awareness of mental health and the factors that can impact it. To help you deliver these sessions with your staff, team, or partners, we have developed a dedicated Healthy Minds Information Session. This introductory session gives an overview of the resource, including what it is, why it was developed, and how to access it.

Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and a frequently asked questions document:

PowerPoint

Facilitators Notes

Frequently Asked Questions

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

01. Basic Mental Health Awareness – Adults

Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

02. Basic Mental Health Awareness – Children and Young People

Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

03. Body Image

Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

04. Emotional Literacy

Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

05. Loneliness and Isolation

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

06. Long Term Conditions

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

07. Loss and Grief

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

08. Loss and Grief during a Pandemic

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz, session outline, and handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

09. Maternal Mental Health

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

10. Adult Mental Health Improvement Framework

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

11. Children and Young People Mental Health Improvement Framework

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

12. One Good Adult

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation and facilitator’s notes, and handouts:

Overview

Session Plan & Notes

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

13. Resilience

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

14. Sleep

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

15. Stigma and Discrimination

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and See Me Scotland’s resources:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

16. Mental Health and Alcohol

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

17. Menopause and Mental Health

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:

PowerPoint

Quiz

Resources

Session Plan & Notes

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

18. Online Harms and Mental Health

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

19. Screen Time and Mental Health

Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:

For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:

Healthy Minds Online Guidance

Appendices

The below appendices include information on mental health training courses and a reflective practice evaluation form :

The Mental Health Improvement team are a Greater Glasgow and Clyde wide team who support our colleagues and partners across the six Health and Social Care Partnership areas with public mental health; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, and Inverclyde.

We share updates about the work we are undertaking across our key priority areas, and share useful resources and information to help you deliver on the public mental health agenda.

This is not a website for people looking for immediate help. If you are in distress and need immediate help:

Emergency: 999 | Crisis: 111 | Samaritans: 116 123 | Breathing Space: 0800 838587 | ChildLine: 0800 1111 or check out Mental health services at NHS 24 (nhsinform.scot)