This guide aims to equip the sport and physical activity sector with the tools and
information required to support the mental health of staff, coaches, volunteers and
participants as we ‘return to play’.
This guide is aimed at organisations, clubs and groups that wish to provide the very best
experience for their workforce and participants as lockdown restrictions are eased and
sport and physical activity returns. It includes guidance, good practice, tools and insight to
help the sector to
This toolkit is for organisations, clubs and groups in the sport and physical
activity sector that want to support the mental health of their members,
participants, staff and volunteers. It introduces the idea of mental health
champions, and provides guidance on establishing a mental health champions
scheme.
The BCR Pair of ACEs tree image grew out of the need to illustrate the relationship
between adversity within a family and adversity within a community. The leaves on
the tree represent the ‘symptoms’ of ACEs that are easily recognized in clinical,
educational and social service settings, such as a well child visit or a pre-school
classroom. Adverse childhood experiences can increase a person’s risk for chronic
stress and adverse coping mechanisms, and result in lifelong chronic illness such
This guide is provided as additional information to help PCNs introduce the new role of social prescribing link worker into their multi-disciplinary teams as part of the expansion to the primary care workforce introduced under the GP contract reforms, using the new national funding available from July 2019, as part of the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES). It builds on the local system guidance provided in the Social Prescribing and Community Based Support Summary Guide.1 It shoul
This report highlights the role the National Association of Link Workers (NALW) can play in coordinating link worker support and development across the UK and providing peer support, networking and professional development support that link workers need whilst juggling all the relationships, information and skills that they need in order to keep successfully supporting their service users.
Over the past few years, the field of social prescribing has grown rapidly and along with it, the need to capture and quantify the impact of social prescribing on individuals.
There are challenges to integrating measurement into practice, especially for social prescribing. This is now a broad term which incorporates a range of conditions and situations that extend well beyond healthcare and into the wider determinants of health. Whilst we now have an agreed architecture in England, of social p
