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Student Support and Wellbeing

Access to our Wellbeing Team

 

As a team, we would like to remind our school community of the wellbeing resources we have available at the school.

To access our Wellbeing Team, please attend the Sub School Leaders office, or speak to one of your Teachers, or Education Support Staff who can complete a referral for you.

If as a parent/carer you believe your young person could benefit from accessing our Wellbeing Team, please call the school on 5155 2982 and ask to speak to a member of the Wellbeing Team or a Sub School Leader.

 

Our Youth Worker- Gwen, can assist youth with:

 

 

  • Social and emotional wellbeing support
  • Brief counselling
  • Family challenges / FDV / relationships
  • Mental health referral information and Support
  • Anxiety, depression
  • Substance use support / referrals
  • Challenges / avoidance of school
  • Support / dvocacy in working with Sub School Leaders with concerns / challenges

 

 

Our Secondary School Nurse- Kate, can assist youth with:

  • Hygiene
  • Medical condition (pre-exisitng or new)
  • Dental health
  • Physical health
  • Health concern

 

Koorie Engagement Worker- Pauline, can assist youth with:

  • 10 minute check ins
  • Support regulating emotions / upset
  • Support to cope with challenges
  • Wellbeing concerns
  • Go through plans e.g. safety, behaviour
  • Crises

If you’re 14-21 years old and LGBTIQA+, you are encouraged to take part in these anonymous surveys and help shape the future of LGBTIQA+ young people’s health and wellbeing in Australia.

 

In Our Words is a big study about LGBTIQA+ young people in Australia aged 14 to 21. They want to know about your health, wellbeing, and who you turn to for help. This is the 5th time this survey has taken place. Your answers will help make sure young LGBTIQA+ people get the support they need.

 

To take the survey, and for more info visit: https://latrobearcshs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8kN2NovmmlzaHhc 

 

The Count Us In Survey is a survey that is directly tied to this year's census. The Australian Census for the first time ever is asking questions that include LGBTQA+ community (unfortunately there are still gaps for Intersex inclusion). The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society are partnering with researchers at UNSW Sydney to conduct this confidential survey of how likely people are to answer the new gender and sexual orientation questions in the 2026 Australian Census.

They want to understand:

  • How LGBTQ+ people, and adults who live with and care for LGBTQ+ people, are likely to answer
  • Whether the Census questions reflect how people describe their gender and sexual identity
  • How privacy, disclosure, or who else is in the house might affect what’s recorded on Census night

 

This survey is for people:

  • Aged 16 years or older
  • LGBTQA+, or a parent, caregiver, other adult who lives with and cares for LGBTQA+ people 
  • Living in Australia

Take the anonymous, 10–15-minute survey online now! Take the Count Us In survey https://redcap.unsw.edu.au/surveys/?s=XNJDHMNXW4DDTJNE

For more information about the survey, please visit the Count Us In website https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/countusin