Year 7 & Wellbeing Team
Information for Year 7 Families
The transition to secondary schooling can be both exciting, and provide some challenges, for students and parents/carers alike. Parents/carers can often reflect on their own experiences of this time of transition and feel concerned about how their young person will face these challenges. As the primary adult in your young person's life, you can be an excellent support for them during this time. Below are some resources to help you navigate this period with confidence.
CSC Wellbeing Team
Our Wellbeing Team at CSC consists of:
- Wellbeing Leading Teacher: Shanee Peters
- Student Wellbeing Workers: Jodi Hunt and Shera Blaise
- Mental Health Practitioner: Lisa Cochrane
- School Nurse: Andrea Scott
As a team we work to support students across the school through:
- Universal activities that promote positive mental health and develop all students’ social, emotional, and behavioural abilities.
- Early intervention and cohort specific mental health support for students; and
- Targeted and crisis mental health response.
Our team can, where appropriate, provide more individualised support such as:
- short term (2-4 sessions) school-based counselling for students with emerging mental health concerns or mild to moderate mental illness.
- developing a plan to manage mental health concerns at school with a student and/or family.
- skills focused programs with small groups of students.
Some students will require a level of specialised support and treatment that school based mental health and wellbeing staff cannot provide. In these instances, the student must be referred to the appropriate specialist or health service.
As a team we also provide consultation to parents & carers to help them navigate accessing the right support for their young person. We can do this over the phone or in person. When contacting the Wellbeing Team, parents/carers should allow 2 - 5 working days for staff to reply.
If you have concerns regarding your young person, we encourage you to:
- Check out the resources on our website.
- Speak with their mentor teacher.
- Make direct contact with the Wellbeing Team, via our website or by calling Reception on 5479 1111.
Resources to support you caring for your young person during this period of transition
Triple P: Positive Parenting Program Online
- Online program for parents/carers of young children (under 12 years)
- Discover more ways to be an ongoing positive influence on your child and strengthen your relationship (now, and in the years to come)
- Promote new skills and help emotional self-regulation
- Know how to respond effectively to guide behaviour
- Raise happier, more confident and capable kids
- Enjoy family life more!
In partnership with Monash University, Headspace is offering an evidence-based online parenting program designed to help parents and carers build skills and confidence in supporting their high school-aged young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Partners in Parenting also covers more common parenting challenges, such as communication, managing strong emotions, boundaries, conflicts and staying involved in your high school-aged young person’s life while they navigate their independence.
There are 10 interactive online modules to explore, you can complete them in any order and at your own time and pace. Each one will only take around 15 to 25 minutes to complete. As well as the modules, there are optional reflection questions which can help to recommend specific modules for you.
Partners in Parenting: Education (PiP-Ed)
PiP-Ed is a new, updated version of the award winning, evidence-based parenting program ‘Partners in Parenting’. The program is designed to support parents of teenagers struggling with school attendance (often called ‘school refusal’) in the context of anxiety and/or depression, by equipping parents with strategies to improve their parenting confidence and support their teen’s mental health and education. The program is self-guided and completed entirely online.
Helpful online articles:
Starting Secondary School - Raising Children’s Network
School Problems - Raising Children’s Network
Helpful Podcasts: