News & Webinars

We are asking all schools and colleges across Harrow to run this during a tutor time during January and February 2021

The national ‘Wellbeing for Education’ initiative (published as Wellbeing for Education Return) aims to build on and strengthen educational settings’ ability to support children’s wellbeing, and the wellbeing of adults in the school community, in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Permission has been granted to convert a School-owned building on the Hill into subsidized offices for the Young Harrow Foundation.

Our Social Media Webinar on 4 November 2020 was designed to share the expertise of our members who are doing exceptionally well in specific areas of social media and online fundraising

Together, we urgently need to curb the spread of this deadly infection and get cases back to a manageable level - especially as the cold sets in and other germs lay people low. We need to help save lives and protect the NHS by staying inside our own homes with our own households.

Young Harrow Foundation have been out and about (on Zoom) interviewing our Members to ask them "does Youth Work Work", Our interns "DO you think Youth Work is Working" and 2 people Dan (YHF CEO) did youth work with over 15 years ago to ask "Did Youth Work Work"

The national youth groups have created a website with a range of resources which are being developed at speed so please signpost your groups to this for guidance and updates:

Cases of covid continue to rise rapidly across London, as well as in Harrow where they have nearly doubled in the past couple of weeks. Because of this London will move to tier 2 lockdown tomorrow.

'They say a picture speaks a thousand words. It’s not always easy to find the words to talk about mental health, so why not start with a picture?' To celebrate World Mental Health Day, we are working with Mind in Harrow and the Heads Up partners, encouraging you and the young people you work with to share a meme or a favourite image that best reflects how they are feeling at the moment.

Covid-19 has hit our communities hard and it is by us all following the Public Health England (PHE) advice, and taking the proper precautions, we have managed to keep people safe.

Coronavirus is spreading across Harrow and throughout the country.

Young Harrow Foundation, Mind in Harrow presenting on behalf of the Heads Up mental health partnership, My Yard and Harrow Carers delivered a session for Harrow School on Saturday 26th September to understand the Charity Sector and prepare students for their chosen activity on Community service.

TOGETHER YOU HAVE RAISED MORE THAN £14,000 (£17,000 WITH GIFT AID). AND AS I WRITE TO YOU, THE AMOUNT IS STILL RISING AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO STILL MAKE A DONATION PLEASE USE THE LINK BELOW!

"This pandemic hasn’t been easy on any of us, but the governments reluctance to take any big measures that shake up our educational structure in a bid to give us the opportunities to continue our dreams means that we have been left alone and vulnerable and paying the price for the impacts of this pandemic"

Veronica Mason (BSc, MA, PGCHE) is a Professional Youth and Community Worker (JNC Qualified) and university lecturer. She is very passionate about creating programmes of change which encourages the formation of positive self-identity and racial identity awareness. Veronica currently works for London Metropolitan University and holds a master’s degree in Applied Anthropology, Community and Youth Work, a BSc Degree in Sociology and Psychology as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.

He has over twenty years’ senior leadership experience working across mental health, public health, heritage and ethnic equality and is well known in health, local government and the voluntary sector. In 2018 he kick started the campaign for an amnesty for the Windrush Generation. Patrick is currently Associate Director for Connected Communities at the Centre for Ageing Better, Equality and Diversity Adviser to Lambeth Council, Chair of Citizens Partnership for Healthcare Investigation Branch (HSIB) and Senior Associate at OLMEC.

As a qualified child therapeutic wellbeing practitioner, Errol has worked extensively in community settings where he observes creative, intercultural practice with an awareness of the cognitive, emotional, and educational needs of young people. Errol is the founder and director of Mindspray, a creative practice delivering projects that meet at the intersections of art, culture, and wellbeing. Acknowledged as a leading figure within the development of British graffiti art, Errol has since established a track record for creative leadership within education, corporate law, youth leadership, cultural heritage, and therapeutic wellbeing.

WEBINAR 8: BLACK LIVES MATTER, LET’S HAVE THAT CONVERSATION….. It has never been more important to come together and have an open dialogue about Culture, Heritage and identity (CHI). On the 25th May, George Floyd, a 46-year old African-American man, was murdered in broad daylight by the police in Minneapolis.

SUPPORTING BEREAVED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Councillor Sue Anderson, Community Engagement & Accessibility Portfolio Holder and Charlie Stewart, Corporate Director Resources at Harrow Council

GP and Chair of Clinical Commissioning Group - CCG. How health services outside of the hospital are supporting the Covid-19 response.

Speaking and taking questions on a number of subjects

A commissioned services offering early intervention mental health support will provide a brief summary of their current support offer.

Leads from charity sector organisations Heads Up (including Mind in Harrow, The Centre for ADHD and Autism Support CAAS, The WISH Centre; Mosaic LGBT Youth Centre; and Paiwand) will similarly provide insights from their work with children and families during recent weeks, along with a brief summary of their current support offer.

Kooth commissioned services offering online and text mental health support will provide insights from their work with children and families during recent weeks, and what this might mean for some children and young people returning to schools.

HARROW - UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL PICTURE HARROW SCHOOLS' JOURNEY TOWARDS 'A NEW NORMAL' A FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING HELPING US TO UNDERSTAND THE LOCAL PICTURE, PLANS AND PRIORITIES FROM NHS, LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

Thinking about wrap around provision, flexibility in funding and programme planning for future delivery.

WEBINAR 7 STREET SAFETY AND DETACHED WORK. KEEPING YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUTH WORKERS SAFE AND ENGAGED Looking at detached and outreach youth work through the lens of informal education, youth engagement and contextual safeguarding. This webinar focused on what has been happening over the Covid 19 lockdown period around young people being out and about including gang and youth violence incidents. With everything indicating a spike in the coming weeks we need to consider ways of engaging with young people, ensuing detached work can take place safely and effectively and how funders can support new ideas and changes to provision.