Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Whole-School Approaches to Mental Health and Bullying: Discussion

2:00 pm

Ms Marie-Louise Neary:

In terms of the lessons learned, the Jigsaw Meath schools model represents the bringing together of health and education and is an example of how that works. It is about building the capacity of the entire school to be a more supportive environment, which aligns itself to the whole-school approach and buys very much into it. In doing that it creates awareness around the schools of where young people can seek help, normalising that and making it okay to seek help. They know the support exists within the school from the HSE primary care psychologists, NEPS and SPHE support services. All of those services have been brought together to work in an integrated and concentrated way. Perhaps Ms Clarke wishes to add to what I have said.

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