Help for Schools

When you become a Bridge in Schools partner your whole school benefits from improved mental health.

How we can support your school

We work closely with you to co-create a service that builds on your existing expertise; embedding our highly qualified and experienced therapists into your school to bring positive results in areas of need.

Supported partnerships:

Our flexible programme brings specialist mental health into the heart of the school community with highly skilled staff embedded as part of the team.

We work with you to create bespoke solutions, tailored to your school. As well as direct therapeutic intervention with children who have the most complex needs, we also work with leadership teams around whole-school emotional wellbeing.

We work as part of the team in your school environment and support lasting improvements to emotional wellbeing and resilience for not only the individual children referred for therapeutic support, but also staff, parents and the wider school community.

Brief intervention service:

We offer time-limited, stand-alone help for children with more complex backgrounds and issues. Our brief intervention services are designed to:

Assess the emotional/mental health needs of the child.
Support family/staff towards a shared understanding of the child’s emotional needs and joined-up support strategies.
Support schools to put in place holding measures while referrals are being processed.
Contribute professional reports to support school applications for e.g. top-up funding, or referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Provide school-based therapy for the child and/or parent.

Support is commissioned on a case-by-case basis. The service is based on pre-agreed contracts that specify the aims, scope and length of intervention. All interventions are evaluated against agreed goals.

The Bridge are leaders in child and family mental health

Impact and evidence

Over the past decade we have supported hundreds of children with specialist psychotherapeutic interventions that consistently improve emotional and behavioural difficulties, including those who suffer complex issues and severe traumas.

Our monitoring shows consistent and sustained improvements across the whole school community following our work, with 77% of parent/carer respondents reporting that the child’s problems were better since their therapy began. This is backed up by teachers, with 80% stating that problems have improved.
Children and young people experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties gain self-confidence and emotional resilience, and build their ability to manage feelings and relationships, with positive impacts on their wellbeing and behaviour.
School staff are better equipped to work with children with complex needs and mental health difficulties, and feel supported with this difficult and challenging work, which can enhance staff resilience.
Parents gain from opportunities to explore the challenges of parenting a child experiencing emotional/behavioural difficulties, and better understand how to respond to their child’s needs.
School leadership teams benefit from whole-school wellbeing strategies and consultation, resulting in pastoral care systems that are joined up to therapeutic expertise. Schools are strengthened by our bespoke programme of support.

What schools and families say

“A vital support to our most vulnerable pupils who are unable to access other services to support for their emotional difficulties.”

“I am friendlier to my friends. I used to fight a lot but now I don’t have to.”

“I could not do this stressful job without supervision from the Bridge”

Find out more

Interested to find out how our in-depth, expert work can bring lasting benefits for your school and community? Talk to us about the wellbeing changes that you would like to bring about in your school or get in touch with any questions you have about our services.

Get in touch

‘We’re here to answer your questions or requests about our Bridge in Schools services.