Digital Resilience: Growing up online

About this training

At Anna Freud, we recognise that time spent online can have a significantly positive or negative impact on self-esteem, emotions and wellbeing. For staff working in schools and colleges, it can be difficult to keep knowledge up to date and to manage problems arising from their students’ lives online.

On this course we will help you to understand what staff in schools and colleges can do to help keep young people safe online. We explore both the role of curriculum and of working in partnership with parents and carers, as well how peer support may work in your setting.

We will suggest and discuss a range of strategies and resources that can be used to build up trust with young people, encourage healthy discussion and ensure appropriate responses.

This course does not rely on participants having any advanced technological understanding.

Aims of this training:

By the end of the training session, you will:

• Understand some of the activities and platforms that young people are using online.

• Have explored the link and the research between brain development and digital use.

• Have gained insight into how to support young people to manage the impact of their digital life, including;

  • our obligation to young people’s safety, including cyber-bullying responses,

  • school curricular requirements,

  • a whole school or setting approach,

  • practical ideas and strategies to use, including conversation starters, peer support and developing algorithmic literacy.

• Have explored working alongside parents and carers.

• Know where to find more information and resources.

Who is this training for?

• School and college leaders

• Senior/designated mental health leads

• PSHE leads

• Teachers and staff in schools and colleges