Jigsaw is delighted to partner with the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS)/Department of Education to provide a comprehensive suite of mental health and wellbeing resources, training and programmes for post-primary schools over the next 3 years. The NEART initiative provides learning opportunities for students to promote mental health and wellbeing, as well as mental health webinars and e-Learning courses for parents and school staff. NEART will complement the supports already available in schools which include the provision of guidance counselling, the work of NEPS, as well as other existing wellbeing programmes and initiatives, including the Student Support Team structure.
Jigsaw’s track record of delivering high-quality mental health supports on a national level to young people of school-going age makes them the perfect partner in delivering these enhanced supports to our post-primary schools.
Supporting young people’s mental health in places where they live, learn, work and play has been the central mission of Jigsaw since our establishment in 2006. Our partnership with Department of Education/NEPS hugely supports this ambition.
Neart will provide resources and training for schools, for students and support teams and will build the capacity of those teams to be better able to support their students.