Well Being News
WELLBEING NEWS
Aboriginal and Torres Straight Information
This website aims to provide information about Indigenous services across Gippsland. This website also includes mainstream health and community services to encourage community members to utilise these services, to promote self empowerment and choice in regards to health and the health of others. Link GPHN Black Pages
New Furniture at MNSC
If you have been through the administration building over the past few weeks, you would have noticed our new chairs. The are a welcomed addition to the school.
Mental Health Information
Exams coming up? Sometimes the pressure you feel can help keep you focused, other times it can cause stress. Check out these tips to help you cope with stress during exam time.
What does exam stress look like?
People might experience physical symptoms, like trouble sleeping, feeling sick in the stomach, headaches and muscle tension, and fidgeting, nail-biting and teeth grinding.
Exam stress can also be mental or emotional, like feeling confused, being irritable, feeling overwhelmed, lacking motivation and withdrawing from family, friends and things you normally enjoy.
More information - Exam Stress | What is Exam Stress & How to Deal with it | Kids Helpline
Video - https://youtu.be/TjluhZAaIx0
PHYSICAL HEALTH INFORMATION
VAPING, NICOTEIN and STRESS
We know that 54% of all Victorian adults who vape are aged under 30. And the number of teens using e-cigarettes is skyrocketing. This new report from AIFS shows the risk vaping may pose to the mental health of our next generation.
The Quitline counsellors are well placed to help people battling nicotine addiction. The opportunity now is to encourage people who vape, especially teens and young adults, to seek support to quit.
More information –
Quit Victoria | How smoking makes stress worse
Quit recently launched its online hub – Homepage | Quit Vaping Facts – intended to equip parents and carers of young people with information and support to talk to young people about vaping.
Here's how smoking actually makes stress worse:
- Nicotine causes your heart rate and blood pressure to spike. Your heart has to work harder making it difficult to relax.
- When you haven’t had a cigarette for a while, you experience withdrawal symptoms like irritability, poor concentration and cravings.
- When you do have a smoke, the nicotine relieves those withdrawal symptoms and cravings and gives you a brief hit of dopamine, a brain-reward chemical.
- But then the cycle begins again as your heart rate and blood pressure spike.
Quitting is the best way to break this cycle of smoking and stress. (QUIT )
RELATIONSHIPS
Navigating healthy friendships and supporting your teen online
Friendships are important to teenagers on many different levels. They can help teenagers feel a sense of belonging and acceptance, have a positive influence on their social and emotional skills, and contribute to their personal growth. On the flip side however, learning to navigate social influences and understanding what constitutes a healthy friendship can be challenging, especially when interacting online. As a parent or carer, championing your teen to build the right skills to navigate friendship issues successfully and independently is an important part of supporting their mental health and wellbeing.
More information :
Navigating healthy friendships and supporting your teen online (reachout.com)
Frenemies & toxic friendships: teenagers | Raising Children Network
Pre-teen and teenage friendships | Raising Children Network
Webinars for parents : Webinars for parents and carers | eSafety Commissioner
Report it : Report online harm | eSafety Commissioner
STYMIE
Stymie helps your child to say something by enabling them to report all kinds of concerns, safely and anonymously.
- The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages us from intervening in an emergency situation.
- Social influence affects how many children behave, so they are less likely to stand up to inappropriate behaviours in public when the number of onlookers is high.
- Often our children are burdened by serious issues involving their friends but don’t know how to help.
Rather than trying to work against all of these pressures, our solution recognises the nuanced nature of their social currency, by providing them with a safe place to start a conversation.
We encourage you and your young person to report it on STYMIE - click the link Stymie Notification
Parent Webinars
WHATS ON FOR OUR TEENS ?
