Wellbeing

All children completed a ‘5 finger of safety’ sheet.  Students wrote down 5 trusted adults they can go to at school.  I recommend you talk to your children about 5 trusted adults they can talk to at home.

In our Chill Out room we provide children with opportunities to self-regulate and to remain calm at times they feel angry, mad or sad. It is also a place to go when they feel unsafe or worried.  Instead of punishing children who struggle to regulate their emotions, we have established a calming Chill Out room where children can go to re-center, calm down or chill out.  Children can get overwhelmed by big emotions in their tiny bodies, whether it's frustration or anger or sadness this provides them an appropriate outlet.  We all know big emotions can escalate into yelling, shouting, name calling, lashing out, tantrums and even physical attacks which we do not want.

Drummond Street Services

Phone: 03 9663 6733

Drummond Street offers a range of free (or low cost) services to promote the health and wellbeing within families – with a particular focus on the needs of children and teenagers.

They aim to:

• Address the early risks to poor mental health outcomes for children and adolescents
• Support families to access assistance, create and maintain positive family and parent-child relationships and home environments
• Support children and young people’s emotional wellbeing
• Maintain positive connections with family members, school and the wider community

The counselling and support services are delivered through:

1. Community Support Programs – Delivered at our centre, in Early Childhood Centres, Maternal & Child Health Centres, schools and other community locations, our community support programs
2. Family Intake, Information Referral and Brief Support Service – A phone and face-to-face service is available for those concerned about their own, or a family member’s (including a child or teenager) emotional and mental wellbeing. After assessment, education, information and brief parenting and family support, families may be supported into other community or treatment services.
3. Intensive Family Support and Counselling Services – Available for the whole family, our intensive services may include case management, child/adolescent counselling, family based counselling/therapy and/or couples if required. We are also able to provide specialist family and parenting support through recovery and pathways to community connection.

Family Life also offers counseling for children.  Click this link for more information. 

Children’s Counselling | Family Life Support and Counselling 

Josy Reeder

Learning Diversity/Wellbeing Leader