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SPECIAL REPORT: Trauma Recovery

Trauma in children significantly disturbs their sense of safety and normalcy, leading to substantial emotional and behavioural changes. Such disturbances often result from exposure to traumatic events, which may be exacerbated by continuous media coverage. This exposure can trigger stress, anxiety, and trauma, with varying recovery timelines due to the unpredictable nature of trauma's impact. Observing young people grappling with these effects can be highly distressing for parents and caregivers.

It's important to establish a nurturing environment to help restore a child's sense of security to help promote resilience. Active involvement in their recovery is essential, as is recognising the unique, personalised needs of each child in responding to trauma. Depending on their age, children may present with different symptoms, such as regressive behaviours in younger ones or withdrawal and agitation in older children and teens. It is important to monitor and manage the type of information children may access to reduce their emotional distress.

The brain stores traumatic events as powerful emotional memories, influencing behaviour through mechanisms beyond a child's conscious awareness. By providing young people with support and equipping them with coping mechanisms to handle uncertainty, parents and carers can greatly enhance a child's capacity to recover and build long-term emotional resilience.

This Special Report will help you identify a child experiencing trauma and how you can support them to overcome it.

Here is the link to your Special Report https://holytrinity.nsw.schooltv.me/wellbeing_news/special-report-trauma-recovery

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Broadband free initiative

The School Student Broadband Initiative (SSBI) is a federal government program. The SSBI is a program to provide free home internet for one year for up to 30,000 unconnected Australian families with school-aged students. 

To be eligible, families must:

• Have a child living at home that is enrolled in an Australian school (Kinder to up to Year 12) 
• Not have an active National Broadband Network (nbn®) Internet service at home. Having a mobile internet service does not affect eligibility.
• Live in a premise that can access the National Broadband Network via a standard connection - this will be checked for families.
• Not have had an active nbn connection during the previous 14 days.

Families can apply to the National Referral Centre via: 

• https://www.anglicarevic.org.au/student-internet
• Calling 1800 954 610 (10 am – 6 pm AEDT Monday to Friday)

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Real Talk

The FREE Real Talk Parents Membership Site is a quality resource bank in the areas of eSafety, relationships and sex education, which fosters Catholic values, resilience, and relationship success. Families and caregivers are encouraged to take advantage of this Parent's Membership Site - because parenting doesn't come with an instruction manual.

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