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Supporting Students’ Emotional Wellbeing Programs

Cool Little Kids Program

The Cool Little Kids Program is a group treatment program for parents of children aged 3-6 years who exhibit excessive shyness or anxiety. Cool Little Kids is a psycho-educational parenting program that equips parents with knowledge, practical skills and tips on how to help their child manage and overcome anxiety.

The Emotional Health Clinic at Macquarie University is currently taking expressions of interest for Cool Little Kids Zoom Group Sessions. Find out more information or express your interest. Contact our friendly staff at (02) 9850 8711 or email ehc.admin@mq.edu.au

New online resource - for kids and parents: Momentum - Moving Forward

Helping children and adolescents with anxiety, depression and wellbeing

Momentum offers tailored online treatment programs to help children and adolescents learn new ways to cope with feelings of anxiety and/or unhappiness. Momentum also offers help with sleep difficulties, as well as information on well-being and help-seeking, and tips and information about substance use for adolescents.

Momentum has been designed in collaboration with young people, parents, clinicians and researchers. The program is free to use in Australia and can be worked through at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home.

To find out more about Momentum for 7 - 12 year olds: https://www.momentumhub.org.au/prereg_participants_child/#FAQ

Parental Controls Webinar

Learn how to use parental controls at this free webinar by eSafety Commissioner. To register: https://esafety.gov.au/parents/webinars

Navigating online safety and sexual development: eSafety’s new resource

Content type

Webinar

Event date

27 August 2025, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (AEST)

Presenters

Anne Atcheson, Deanne Carson, Derek McCormack, Gulsum Adas, Lewis Allan

Partners

eSafety

Location

Online

Children and young people are growing up in a digital world where they use online devices and platforms in many aspects of their lives.

What children and young people see and do online can affect them in both positive and negative ways. For parents and carers, keeping children and young people safe online can feel overwhelming, especially with the availability of violent content and the potential for sexually abusive or exploitative contact. There is also often online misinformation about sex, relationships, sexuality and gender – which can be hard to identify.

It’s important that practitioners and service providers who work with children and families can provide support and guidance regarding online safety. To provide this support, it is critical to understand how the online experiences of children and young people can impact, and be impacted by, their relationships and sexual development.

To assist practitioners and service providers to better support children and families, eSafety has recently released their ‘Online safety and sexual development guidance’.

This webinar, produced in partnership with eSafety, brings together some of the key people involved in developing the resource.

This webinar will give you:

insight into how the ‘Online safety and sexual development guidance’ was developed, including the evidence base underpinning the resource
a better understanding of the intersection of online safety and children’s sexual development, including the development of respectful relationships
insight into how to use the resource with the families you work with, including case scenarios to illustrate practical examples.

Target Audience

This webinar will be of interest to practitioners and service providers who work with children and families in a range of settings including child and adolescent mental health services, non-government organisations and schools.

To register for the webinar, click here.