Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities | 1 | Culturally and respectful engagement | Resources designed for educators who wish to invite genuine connection and deepen engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families and communities. |
Adolescent / Youth Support | 1 | Reachout | Website designed for teenagers to assist them with personal issues. |
Adolescent / Youth Support | 2 | When Love Hurts | Information for young people around relationships. |
Adolescent / Youth Support | 3 | Youth Insearch | Provide weekend camps where the topics of communication, trust, self-esteem, parent/adolescent relationships, drug & alcohol abuse, suicide, adolescent health, sexual assault and grief are explored. A very powerful program to assist young people turn around their lives. |
Adolescent / Youth Support | 4 | Youth NSW | N.S.W. Government’s website for young people and workers in the youth field. |
Behaviour | 1 | Anti Bullying | Suitable for students, school counsellors and teachers. |
Behaviour | 2 | Behaviour and Attendance Tool Kits | The toolkit units provide schools with a comprehensive resources that address support for parents/carers, teachers & school staff, leaders, students, antibullying and professional learning. |
Behaviour | 3 | Case Management | Part of Mind Matters Plus. Power Point materials and notes. |
Behaviour | 4 | Cybersmart | Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world. |
Behaviour | 5 | Cybersmart Detectives | An interactive, ‘live’ online game that teaches children key internet safety messages—particularly in relation to providing personal information online and understanding the potential for people to hide their true identity online. Children work in an IM-style environment to piece together clues to work out a mystery surrounding the behaviour of a secondary student who is in trouble online. |
Behaviour | 6 | Discipline Help (Parents) | Understanding behaviour for parents. |
Behaviour | 7 | Positive Behavioural Interventions and Support (PBIS)1 | An excellent whole school systems approach to enhance student behaviour and learning outcomes. |
Behaviour | 8 | Positive Behaviour and Learning (PBL) | Australian Research from the University of Western Sydney PBL based on Positive Behavioural Interventions and Support (PBIS) which was developed in the USA. |
Behaviour | 9 | Reality Therapy and Choice Theory | Training for understanding behaviour and systems approach to improve student learning. Excellent Australian presenter. Ideal for Counsellors, teachers and school executive. |
Behaviour | 10 | Restorative Justice | Restorative Practices in the Australian context focuses on the process of anti-bullying and reactive interventions to be used with difficult students or problematic situations. |
Behaviour | 11 | Rock and Water | Rock and Water offers teachers a new way to interact with boys through physical-social teaching (though the program can also be taught to girls). Physical exercises are constantly linked with mental and social skills. |
Bushfire Support | 1 | Bushfire Response Program | Support for schools and early learning services affected by bushfires or community trauma. |
Bushfire Support | 2 | Supporting Communities | Protective factors to support communities recovering from adverse experiences. |
Bushfire Support | 3 | Student Observation Tool | The BETLS Observation Tool is a template for gathering and documenting information and observations about a child or young person. |
Conflict Resolution | 1 | Conflict Resolution Network | Resources, free training manual and training courses for dealing with conflict resolution. |
Conflict Resolution | 2 | Fighting Fair | Scott Dutton from Fighting Fair provides excellent training in mediation and conflict resolution. Training is very practical and interactive with a focus on skill mastery. |
Disabilities | 1 | Inclusive Practices | Disability Inclusion Guide – An introduction to inclusive practices for learning communities to support children and young people with developmental delay or disability. |
Drug Issues | 1 | Australian Drug Information Network | This directory may help you find information on alcohol and other drugs. The directory has a collection of websites formally reviewed and rated out of five stars by the Alcohol and Drug Foundation. |
Drug Issues | 2 | Family Drug Support | Information sheets and support for families. |
Flood Support | 1 | Psychological First Aid | Australian Psychological Society and Australian Red Cross- This resource provides an overview of best practice in psychological first aid. |
Flood Support | 2 | Resources to support teachers | Emerging Minds- This fact sheet includes advice on strategies and practices teachers can implement to support children and young people in the classroom following a traumatic event. |
Flood Support | 3 | The importance of story | Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health- A story for young children about recovering from floods. |
Flood Support | 4 | Birdie’s stories | It rains so much, Birdie and Mr Frog have to get away from the rising water. A story for young children about recovering from floods. |
Flood Support | 5 | Information for parents | Helping children who have been affected by floods – information for parents and caregivers. |
Flood Support | 6 | Preparing for floods | Helping children who have been affected by floods – information for parents and caregivers. |
Flood Support | 7 | Recovery from floods | Helping children who have been affected by floods – information for parents and caregivers. |
Flood Support | 8 | Information for parents | Information for family and friends supporting young people affected by a natural disaster |
Flood Support | 9 | Mental Health services and support helplines | Information for family and friends supporting young people affected by a natural disaster |
Grief & Loss | 1 | Grief Australia | Information to help parents, caregivers, relatives and teachers to understand and support adolescents to navigate their grief experience |
Grief & Loss | 2 | My Grief App | MyGrief app provides support to grieving people and those who support them |
Grief & Loss | 3 | Health Direct | Helpful information for helping people understand grief |
Grief & Loss | 4 | Headspace | Helpful information for understanding grief and loss for family and friends |
Grief & Loss | 5 | Kids Helpline | Practical information for supporting children |
Legal | 1 | Legal Matters | A handbook for young people. |
Mental Health | 1 | Anxiety | Fact sheets for teachers, parents, kids and teens. |
Mental Health | 2 | Aussie Optimism | Provides teachers, practitioners and parents with practical strategies and resources for developing children’s social competence, self-management, and positive thinking in every day life, during times of stress, and across transitions, like the move to high school. The programs are developmentally appropriate for children in middle and upper primary, and lower secondary school. |
Mental Health | 3 | Beyond Blue | Resources and Information Sheets. Very suitable for men. |
Mental Health | 4 | Mood Gym | A free self help program to teach cognitive behaviour therapy skills to people vulnerable to depression and anxiety. |
Mental Health | 5 | Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP) | A universal program which aims to build resilience to depression in pre-teenagers and younger adolescents. |
Mental Health | 6 | Rock & Water | Rock and Water offers teachers a new way to interact with boys through physical-social teaching (though the program can also be taught to girls). Physical exercises are constantly linked with mental and social skills. |
Mental Health | 7 | Work/Life Balance | Videos that assist teachers with their work/life balance. |
Mental Health | 8 | Resources | Emerging Minds provides resources including fact sheets, podcasts, toolkits, videos, short articles, webinars, practice papers, research papers, apps, policies and frameworks. |
Mental Health | 9 | Services and Helplines | National mental health services and support helplines for learning communities. |
Mental Health | 10 | Program Directory | The Programs Directory is a searchable database of mental health and wellbeing programs for learning communities. It is designed to help educators choose programs to implement in their learning community. |
Mental Health | 11 | Educator Wellbeing | Educator Wellbeing – wellbeing guide, plus fact sheets, planning tools, event recordings and videos designed to help individuals and learning communities build and maintain educator wellbeing. |
Natural Disasters | 1 | Responding to natural disasters | Support for early learning services and schools affected by a natural disaster or other traumatic event in the community. |
Parenting | 1 | The Fathering Project | Programs that encourage fathers to participate in school activities, meetings and events. |
Parenting | 2 | Family Man | A research-backed online parenting program designed with dads in mind. Fun, free, fast and interactive. |
Parenting | 3 | Raising Children | Provides ad-free parenting videos, articles and apps backed by Australian experts. |
Parenting | 4 | Cool Kids Anxiety Program | A structured 10 session program run over a minimum of 10 weeks that teaches children (ages 7-17 years) and their parents how to better manage a child’s anxiety. |
Parenting | 5 | | Ideas for all families to assist with their child’s development. |
Professional Organisations | 1 | Australian Association of Special Educators | Useful information for Special Education Teachers. Excellent annual conference. |
Professional Organisations | 2 | Australian Council For Educational Leaders | Publishes ‘The Australian Educational Leader’, provides on line forums and excellent conferences. |
Professional Organisations | 3 | School Counselling and Psychology Association NSW | A professional association for psychologists and counsellors working in schools or educational settings with children and adolescents. Webinars for PD, peer supervision, newsletters, workshops and professional advocacy. |
Professional Organisations | 4 | Australian Professional Organisations for Teachers | Links to many professional organisations, different Australian education systems and free resources for teachers, special educators and school executive. |
Psychological | 1 | Brief Therapy | The Brief Therapy Institute provides training in Solutions Focus. This is very suitable for people providing counselling and suport in schools. |
Psychological | 2 | Choice Theory and Reality Therapy | Reality Therapy is a counselling process that assists client to take more effective control of their lives. Excellent training. |
Suicide Response | 1 | Suicide Prevention | Suicide is the leading cause of death among young people, but it’s preventable, and identifying changes in your students is important. |
Suicide Response | 2 | Suicide Response | A coordinated and informed response can help schools address student and staff needs following a suicide, providing support, aiding recovery, and reducing the risk of more suicides. |