Lindsey Shaffer, lead CAMHS practitioner for the Emotional Health in Schools Service in Manchester, has arranged for all nine of the schools covered by the service to take part in Make Time.
Her own school, Newall Green High School in Wythenshawe, has a well-established whole-school approach to mental health that offers fertile ground for the anti-stigma messages that Make Time tackles.
Ms Shaffer works with a multi-agency team that includes pastoral staff, a member of the police, a social worker, and a clinical psychologist.
She explained: “We have weekly agency meetings and every six weeks we have an Emotional Health in School meeting where students can be referred by parents and carers, for example.
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