BSA virtual day seminar – Practical tips for supporting mental health concerns, including self-harm and eating disorders for African boarding schools

• Date: February 24, 2023
• Time: 14:30 – 17:00 (GMT+0.5)
• Cost: Delegate fee – £75
• Audience: All those working in African boarding schools
• Platform: Zoom (online)

With increasing numbers of young people navigating the struggles of mental health, it’s vitally important that we ensure the right support is widely available and accessible to them within school. This virtual seminar will provide an insight into what normal mental health looks like in the teenage brain and will enable attendees to consider how they can best support students with their mental wellbeing. This seminar, led by Jane Graham, Director Health and Wellbeing, BSA, will help schools better understand mental health in students and identify strategies to support them.

Training topics will include:
What mental health looks like and the day-to-day fluctuation
Helpful and unhelpful coping strategies
The 5 ways of wellbeing and creating a mental health toolbox
How to identify and support a student with mental health
When is it appropriate for a boarder to remain a boarder when struggling with mental health

Learning outcomes:
Increased awareness of mental health in students
Guidance on ways to support students with mental health

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Speaker: Jane Graham, Director Health and Wellbeing, BSA

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has over 30 years of nursing background, Many of them in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilise and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE. She is currently the director of Hieda and director of health and wellbeing for the BSA Group.