Wellbeing
Kristy Dupille, Maddi Hall, Sherree Jorgensen, Karli Price
wellbeing@spbendigo.catholic.edu.au
Mental Health Month
This week we continue to focus on the 5 Ways to Mental Wellbeing, having already focused on the importance of learning and being active, we now spend time this week to think about how we Connect with others.Developing healthy social relationships can increase our feelings of happiness, security, belonging and self-worth. Did you know that positive wellbeing can also be passed on through relationships? Spending time with positive people can in fact improve your own psychological wellbeing.
This week students will be encouraged, through the Big Question, and Break Club activities to think about how they can connect with others, increase their positive connections and make our school values of caring for others, and caring for themselves be part of their everyday actions in the classroom and in the yard.
Connecting with others also gives us a chance to help and support others, and it also provides us with the opportunity to receive support from others. This is an important focus when we think of the RU OK campaign. RU OK? Is a question we can ask any day, and it is recommended that we use these four steps when we are concerned for someone:
Ask RUOK?
Listen with an open mind
Encourage action
Check back in
If you, or someone you know, is in need of support please know that help is available, and it’s okay to not be okay.
If someone you know is not OK, support is available from the following organisations: (remember you can always call these free services for support and advice on what to do next).
Lifeline (24/7 ) 13 11 14 lifeline.org.au
Suicide Call Back Service (24/7) 1300 659 467 suicidecallbackservice.org.au
Beyond Blue (24/7) 1300 224 636 beyondblue.org.au
Kids Helpline (24/7, for youth 5-25) 1800 55 1800 kidshelpline.com.au
MensLine (24/7) 1300 78 99 78 mensline.org.au
If you or someone else is in danger, call 000 immediately.
More resources: ruok.org.au/findhelp
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