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Nip in the Bud® Podcast - The children's mental health health charity
We are Nip in the Bud®
Nip in the Bud is a charity that works to recognise and respond to children's mental health needs. We believe that early intervention is key to supporting children. Alis Rocca is an education consultant and coach, having been a teacher and a head teacher in the UK for over 20 years.
As a charity, Nip in the Bud works with mental health professionals of the highest standing to produce FREE short evidence-based films, podcasts and fact sheets to help parents, educationalists and others working with children to recognise potential mental health conditions.
In these podcast episodes, Alis is in conversation with a variety of guests aiming to share deep and engaging conversations about children's mental health. Guests include a variety of people with lived experiences and research based theories including parents, educationalists and those from the medical profession.
We discuss mental health issues which are often linked to a diagnosis or to experiences that children may have which could lead to poor mental health. Areas such as trauma, Autism, ADHD, conduct disorders, PTSD, self-harm, eating disorders, anxiety and depression are covered in our podcasts.
In doing so we bring parents, teachers and professionals ideas, support and advice in order to increase the prospects of early intervention for the children and young people you care for. We hope to help avoid conditions becoming more serious in later years.
In October 2023 Kitty Nabarro was awarded the Points of Light award for her work in setting up the Nip in the Bud Charity and the impact it is having on improving lives. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wrote to thank her for '...doing incredible work to raise awareness of mental health disorders in children and help avoid conditions becoming more serious as they get older.'
Nip in the Bud® Podcast - The children's mental health health charity
Nip in the Bud with Kitty Nabarro: Meet the founder of the children's mental health charity Nip in the Bud.
This episode shares a conversation with co-founder of Nip in the Bud, Kitty Nabarro.
Kitty co-founded Nip in the Bud together with her husband Daniel in 2015 and is the Chair and administrator of the charity. Previously Kitty worked as a teacher of modern languages in secondary schools and adult education. After retiring from the classroom she became an active volunteer for OCD Action, with particular focus on the OCD at School programme, giving awareness talks prepared by the Maudsley Hospital.
In 2023 Kitty’s outstanding voluntary work and commitment to promoting a greater awareness of Children’s Mental Health was recognised by the Prime Minister with a Points of Light Award.
Our conversation today tells of how the mental health charity was formed, and the personal journey of Kitty and her family that lead to creating this charity. Kitty shares her first hand experience as a mother of a child with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). She explains the changes that have come about since her daughter was in school and how the eventual diagnosis impacted on their lives.
Listen for information on the children's mental health charity Nip in the bud and for signposting towards help around obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) as well as other mental health and neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD, Autism, PTSD, Anxiety and Depression.
Nip in the Bud - Where to get help
https://nipinthebud.org/where-to-get-help/