Wellbeing
Wellbeing and Mental Health
Wellbeing Supports for Community
Be You - Growing a mentally healthy community
Be You is the national mental health in education initiative delivered by Beyond Blue, in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and headspace. Be You supports early learning services and schools to develop a positive, inclusive and resilient learning community where every child, young person, educator and family can achieve their best possible mental health.
Be You has a great library of fact sheets on a variety of topics, such as Social and Emotional Learning, wellbeing, relationships, grief, trauma, mental health issues and development.
The Australian Indigenous Health Info Net has information and resources specific to Indigenous Australian social and emotional wellbeing.
A not-for-profit network of people and organisations committed to developing individual and community wellbeing, especially in education.
Black Dog Institute – Wellbeing
Information and resources on how to achieve and maintain a state of wellbeing.
Black Dog Institute – Workplace wellbeing
Information on what a healthy work/life balance looks like and how to establish this.
Headspace – Tips to keep good mental health
Headspace provides support for young people aged 12 -25. This link provides tips and advice on strategies you can implement to maintain good mental health.
MensLine is an online counselling and telephone service for all men in Australia looking for support with their wellbeing.
Life is a telephone and web chat service for members of the LGBTI community across Australia, available from 3pm – midnight every day.
Downloadable free resources to help you meaningfully connect with people around you and support anyone struggling with life.
Wellbeing Supports for Students
The BRAVE Program is an interactive, online program for the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent anxiety. The programs are free, and provide ways for children and teenagers to better cope with their worries. There are also programs for parents.
Smiling Mind is a free app designed by psychologists to support you in adopting a mindfulness practice. There are programs for stress, sleep, attention and concentration, and wellbeing among other topics.
Headspace provides support for young people aged 12-25. It is available Australia wide and has a variety of in person and online resources for free.
Parenting Supports - Triple P Parenting Programs
Short Term Parenting Support
Berry Street offer ‘Primary Care’, providing families with children aged 0-12 with one to one evidence based parenting support in relation to specific concerns that they may be having, like screentime, mealtimes, being bullied etc.
Supporting Children with Anxiety
We know that many children are experiencing anxiety at the moment. Individual and group evidence based parenting support is available to help parents/carers support their children (aged 6-14) around anxiety (Fear-Less Triple P). This can be particularly helpful whilst on the waitlist for psychological services.
Financial Support
These Triple P supports come with packs of relevant supplies to support costs for the families, eg. books, games, toys. In addition, there are also grant applications that can be submitted to help with parenting.
Respectful Relationships
A huge thank you to Cat Ross who has volunteered her time to audit our student library to ensure students have access to a diverse range of books. She is organising the purchase of books representing neurodiversity, physical diversity, gender equality, gender identity and family diversity. This will be a long term project aligning with Respectful Relationships lessons taught in classrooms.
School Wide Positive Behaviour Support
This year I will be working with a number of students to develop video models of our Deadly values. Video modelling is an evidence-based practice which explicitly models the expected skills and behaviours. By viewing the videos, the expected behaviour is rapidly learnt.
SWPBS
TPS recently applied to be a Vic SWPBS school in Term 2 and beyond. The Vic SWPBS committee finalised their decision based on our school's ability to demonstrate that we can meet the criteria for the 2022 school year. Our application was successful and we will continue to lead other schools in SWPBS as well as receiving ongoing coaching to further embed practices and professional development for TPS SWPBS leaders.
Mental Health in Primary Schools Survey
We successfully collected 45 family surveys (Grade 2 and 4 families only) completed and 33 staff surveys completed this term.
We would like to extend our enormous thanks for your participation and assistance with the research activities for the Mental Health in Primary Schools study this term. We really appreciate your efforts in completing surveys. This effort is greatly appreciated and will go a long way in helping Murdoch Children’s Institute evaluate this important program.
Breakfast Club
FREE AMAZE workshop for families of student with Autism
