1. NEW Online Training My FRIENDS Youth (aimed at Junior Cycle students) designed to prevent anxiety and build resilience in students. Access it directly through the FRIENDS Resilience website: www.friendsresilience.org.
2. NEW Online Training Friends for Life (upper /primary) and Fun Friends (lower primary) designed to prevent anxiety and build resilience in pupils . Access it directly through the FRIENDS Resilience website: www.friendsresilience.org.
3. The Welcome to our Schools’ video for primary and post primary schools, provides information and strategies to welcome and include children in your schools following their arrival in Ireland, looking at ways to promote a sense of safety, calm, efficacy, connectedness and hope: https://youtu.be/UR-tWbApvrQ
4. NEPS Critical Incidents ELearning Module gov.ie
5. Further information on the e-learning course is available here: Wellbeing – Introducing a Trauma Informed Approach: The Stress Factor – Getting the Balance Right – NEPS.
6. Neart are delivering a range of mental health and wellbeing training. Please see the Neart webpage https://jigsaw.ie/neart/
NEPS psychologists have developed two handouts to provide advice to parents and school staff with regard to supporting children and young people in our schools at this time of war in Ukraine, available at the following links in English and Irish:
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/e003e-supporting-children-and-young-people-in-a-time-of-war/
gov.ie – Tacú le Leanaí agus Daoine Óga le linn Cogaidh (www.gov.ie)
We hope these are helpful for our school communities in supporting children and young people at this time.