Wellbeing Zone
Headspace Ballarat's Tuning in to Teens
Headspace Ballarat has announced that their program Tuning in to Teens is back for Term 1 2022! Tuning in to Teens runs six sessions over a six-week period that focusses on emotions and is designed to support parents/carers to establish stronger relationships with their young people. The program aims to improve parents' emotional awareness, regulation and communication style; and support their teens emotional experiences. By the end of Tuning in to Teens, parents will understand the importance of emotional intelligence, learn how to be an effective emotion coach by using the Five Steps of Emotion Coaching, and discover ways to express understanding and empathy.
Week to Week content
- Session 1: The foundations of emotion coaching teens.
- Session 2: Connecting and emotional acceptance.
- Session 3: Building connection and showing empathy.
- Session 4: Emotion coaching fear.
- Session 5: Emotion coaching and anger.
- Session 6: Emotion coaching now and in the future.
Headspace Ballarat have two groups scheduled to be ran face-to-face:
- Group 1: 6pm - 8pm Mondays, Commencing Monday 7th of February
- Group 2: 1pm - 3pm Thursdays, Commencing Thursday 10th of February
To register and for more information please see the JotForm: https://form.jotform.com/headspaceballarat/T1_TuningintoTeens
- For parents and carers who are interested please complete the referral form directly.
- Please contact Erryn at Headspace Ballarat on 5304 4777 or via email at programs@headspaceballarat.org.au if you have any questions.
Please note: groups are limited in size, therefore, not all expressions of interest can be confirmed for the upcoming group. However, those who do not make the next group will be contacted for groups in the future. For groups to go ahead, minimum numbers are required. In the instance where minimum numbers are not met, the group will not proceed.
Head Lice
It has come to our attention that some students at Beaufort Secondary College have been complaining of an itchy head and we seek your cooperation in checking your child’s hair for head lice or eggs this week.
Head lice do not transmit infectious diseases – they are transmitted by having head to head contact with someone who has head lice.
What can you do?
We seek your cooperation in checking your child’s hair and in those instances where head lice or eggs are found, treating your child’s hair.
Please find a link below to the pamphlet Treating and Controlling Head Lice, from the Department of Human Services. This pamphlet has informative guidelines regarding detecting and treating head lice and eggs.
If head lice are found, when can my child return to school?
Health regulations requires that where a child has head lice, that child should not return to school until the day after appropriate treatment has started. Please note, this refers only to those children who have live head lice and does not refer to head lice eggs.
Beaufort Secondary College is aware that head lice can be a sensitive issue and is committed to maintaining your confidentiality.