These weekly newsletters will help you to support families, children and young people during the Coronavirus period with opportunities to follow the 5 Ways for Wellbeing:
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Keep learning
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Connect
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Take notice
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Give
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Be active
Through this period of change and difference, when we are all asked to stay alert to the coronavirus, we are supporting this by, sending out bulletins to help everyone stay Healthy, Happy and Safe.
Each Bulletin will focus on 1 of the the 5 ways to wellbeing and is linked with our partner website
https://www.healthysomerset.co.uk/covid-19/
On Thursday 21st May during the 8pm clap, we invite you to join with us to 'Give' thanks to all the key workers and a special thanks to the schools that have stayed open throughout the pandemic and are re-opening more fully from 1st June - Thank you!
Please click on the blue links below to access this bulletins items
Advice & Tips
Whilst we continue with social distancing you may experience feelings of isolation. Taking part in experiences where you can 'give' something to another can help promote positive feelings for all.
Helping others is not only good for them, and a good thing to do, research shows us that it also makes us happier and healthier too.
Lifehacks - Mental wellbeing is something we do, not something we have and with Covid-19, things are pretty tough; so we reworked the Lifehacks for life under a global pandemic.
Created by young people for young people to support mental wellbeing during Covid-19 - check out the new Covid-19 Lifehacks - Here
Emotion Tuning is part of Emotion Coaching and offers us an approach to parenting and being in relationship with each other. Through this approach we give our attention to each others emotions. Information about Emotion Tuning can be found Here
During the week of 18th - 24th May 2020 “Kindness” has been announced as the new theme for Mental Health Awareness Week, in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Here you can find a summary of the latest research evidence about the important mental health benefits of kindness, along with tips, ideas and stories that we hope will inspire the nation.
“We want to use Mental Health Awareness Week to celebrate the thousands of acts of kindness that are so important to our mental health. And we want to start a discussion on the kind of society we want to shape as we emerge from this pandemic"
Kooth online counselling service for young people will also be celebrating Mental Health Awareness week.
A children’s guide to Coronavirus from the Children's Commissioner, offering factual information, advice, support guidance and activities is available
The Autism Education Trust (AET) has designed a wide range of practical tools to support teachers to work effectively with autistic pupils.
The Trust has put together a concise, but really comprehensive COVID-19 edition leaflet which combines six of the most useful tools which are particularly helpful at this difficult time.
This resources is available through Somerset Choices Here
Young People’s Mental Health Helpline Now ‘Live’
01823 276892
The opportunity to talk to someone who can listen, advise and support on how to take care of ourselves is of vital importance for keeping ourselves emotionally well and getting the right support for our Mental Health. Open 24 hours a day, seven-days a week and is operated by people in your local area who will know how best to support you.
Activities and Ideas
Seeing yourself, and your happiness, linked to the wider community, can be incredibly rewarding and creates connections with the people around you. What activities can you do at home that might benefit others?
We have put together some ideas to get you started, take a look Here
This is a resource from ELSA support for Good Mental Health week which starts on May 18th through to 24th May.
This is a 5 day challenge on being kind to yourself and is suitable for anyone to do whether you are 5 or 15 years old.
Kindness-to-yourself-challenge.pdf
Healthy, Happy, Safe Logo Design Competition 
Eleanor Jones (17) from Nether Stowey submitted the winning entry; a beautiful image portraying the Somerset countryside featuring the image of Glastonbury Tor under a rainbow and inside a sunshine circle.
Congratulations Eleanor!
Today Eleanor said: “I am truly honoured to have my design chosen for the Public Health’s Healthy, Happy and Safe campaign! The competition was brought to my attention by my family who encouraged me to give it a go and enter. I then set about trying to create a design that conveyed a positive and uplifting message. I hope my art may help to brighten your day and act as a reminder that we will get through this together. Stay healthy, happy and safe!”
The design will now be used as the logo for Public Health’s ‘Healthy Happy and Safe’ campaign which will be used on the Healthy Somerset website.
There were two runners up, Liza Wittek (12), from Bridgwater
and Lola Clark (8), from Creech St Michael
who both submitted fantastic entries that will also be used on social media to support the campaign.
Thank You and Well Done to all who entered the competition
There are lots of opportunities and ideas for 'Giving' on the Action for Happiness: Meaningful May calendar
Take a look at this physical activity below from SASP
After trying out this game, give yourself a physical space to enjoy by tidying up your bedroom
If you enjoyed this activity then why not take on the SASP May Challenge
SASP May Challenge
Weblinks and Apps 
Helping others is not only good for them and a good thing to do, it also makes us happier and healthier too.
Take a look at some actions, facts, news and resources from Action for Happiness
Here
Hold a virtual Give and cake event for Young Minds Charity by signing up on their link below where you will find ideas for your event and donate what you would have spent on a hot drink and a cake.
Give and Cake
The podcast that thinks about thanks, with the good, the great and the grateful. Presented by Angela Scanlon
https://www.thanksamillionpodcast.com/
Mindful opportunities
Gratitude meditation is simply the practice of reflecting on the things in our lives we’re grateful for. It’s about experiencing that feeling of appreciation, whether for a loving family member or friend, a beautiful sunny day, or the pleasure of a good cup of coffee.
Try this 10-minute appreciation and gratitude meditation from Headspace
Here
Give yourself a few moments to enjoy this meditation focusing on kindness from the Weaving Wellbeing series
focusing on the character strength of kindness
