THE "ROXY SAYS" PROJECT
Mental and Emotional Health can be taught at home and school. One-to-one is the most effective way to help children develop long-term life skills. Reading Roxy's workbook at home can provide long-term support, normalise talking about our feelings and provide the best chance to build good relationships for the future. The goals of this project and workbook is to Raise Awareness, Reduce Stigma and Increase Resilience in children. This project and workbook will:
- Make more Efficient use of school resources: We work directly with parents, saving the school resources in (time and money), whilst still supporting the curriculum and obligations.
- Support for the child in the future: We engage parents directly to work with children. We are creating a psycho-logical anchor for the child where they can talk about their emotions and feelings, with a safe adult within the family unit. This space will support the child in their future after they have left primary school, into secondary education and beyond, with intention to have a positive impact on their future relationships.
- Document the results: Activities are documented and evidenced in the workbook resource. We also provide a report with infographics from the feedback data received. This can be used as evidence to illustrate the project’s success.
5min Workbook Design Video
Roxy's school programme can be delivered directly by adults i.e. teachers, parents, carers or professionals). The original school project is described in the guide below and revolves around an interactive workbook resource. It's designed for SEND or pre-transition age i.e. for children before they move from primary to secondary school.
We have included all the content required to deliver resilience skills in the workbook and accompanying online resources. The story, about emotional wellbeing, focuses on the experiences of Roxy, the dog, her friends and family. It is broken into chapters followed by practical written and talking activities. These are augmented with online videos, audio and further information.
The stories in each chapter contain everyday experiences that build up to an emotional climax that is resolved in a happy ending at the end of each chapter. Through the discussion exercises at the end of each chapter, we subtly allow the child to empathise with the character’s experiences and then analyse them through further discussion to help them understand and manage their emotions and feelings. The workbook is designed to allow both the reader and the child to interact about the characters' feelings and emotions and to create a safe space to talk about their feelings. This interaction can help the child avoid poor coping strategies in the future to protect their mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The book can be used by parents, carers, older people (eg. Grandparents) or professionals to talk to the child about mental health. The exercises open up a valuable space facilitating the discussion, which is the most important aspect. There is an extensive emotional glossary to look up words providing emotional vocabulary and a space to complete action plans. There is a number of interactive practical exercises to deliver skills for the child to learn and develop for better mental health practice in the future. These are a combination of videos, audio files and additional text information all working in coordination with the guided resource.
We attempt to obtain sponsors to provide the workbooks free of charge for participants and to support the programme, which is run over 4-5 weekly lessons. Template lesson plans are available FREE online to follow or customise. Developed from the authors professional skills, lived experience and recovery, the workbook is a complete mental health toolkit for any child (or adult) to follow to better manage their mental health.
From the feedback and data collected we can measure: 1. increased awareness of mental health, 2. reduced stigma and 3. increased resilience.
The workbook can be a homework assignment to read with adults OR used as part of a school programme. The guide describes how to implement the programme and includes details of Roxy's Book.
We can deliver this programme directly with adults who choose to do so, or in primary schools, focusing on Key Stage 2 (Yr6) pre-transition children. The workbooks and supporting activities are sponsored by local businesses so there is no cost to the school or parents but is available below to purchase from Amazon. The text has been reviewed by counsellors, a psychologists and mental health professionals and Ai for feedback and improvements to make it fit for purpose.
Please check out the other reviews and more information here.
Short Review:
"Roxy Says"
"This book is a good opportunity to delve into the complexities of feelings and emotions in a way which isn’t intrusive to children."
How do you measure the outcomes? & How does the Survey work?
We use a combination of feedback and surveys to improve the project and achieve the outcomes.
This feedback form, based on the MYMOP method, will be used to measure and score feedback. Using this document we can determine the success of Roxy's Programme. The measurements are;
1. Raised Awareness
2. Reduced Stigma
3. Increased Reliance/Empowerment
Please contact, info@mind-angels.com if you have any questions or suggestions.
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