Services and Resources My Wellbeing. My Classroom
reachout.com has released the first installment in their ‘Wellbeing@School’ series, an i-book titled “MyWellbeing. My Classroom’. This resource guides teachers and students through the practical application of Martin Seligman’s Positive Psychology framework. The activities are applicable for all ages (for sustaining or improving wellbeing), explores the Personal and Social Capability of the Australian Curriculum and can be used with students as individually or as a series of activities in the classroom/pastoral care group.
Now available for download au.professionals.reachout.com/My-Wellbeing-MyClassroom-Resource
Body Image Friendly School Resources
The National Advisory Group on Body Image has available a ‘checklist for body image friendly schools’ to provide practical guidance for all schools on the issue of body image. The messages contained within the checklist have been used in a poster and accompanying material to support school leaders and teachers in considering the sensitive and sometimes difficult topic of body image. The materials use a whole-school approach, and will assist the school community - school leaders, teachers, students and parents - to reflect on, discuss and take action on the way the school might develop and provide a positive body image friendly environment where, as the key message says, all individuals and the whole school culture ‘respects every body’. The Respect Every Body poster, Conversation Starters and links to fact sheets are available for free download: www.youth.gov.au/sites/youth/bodyimage/resources
About Central Coast NSW Medicare Local
The Central Coast NSW Medicare Local is a not-for-profit organisation and is responsible for improving the patient journey through better coordination and integration of services, identifying the health needs and service gaps for local communities, and working in partnership to meet these needs.
Child Mental Health Service
The objective of the Child Mental Health Service component of the Access To Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) Program is to provide eligible children with evidence based short-term psychological services within a primary care setting. The Child Mental Health Service is designed for children under 12 years who have, or are at risk of developing, a mild to moderate mental, childhood/behavioural or emotional, disorder, and who could benefit from short-term focused psychological intervention. The service is not intended to provide long-term intensive support to consumers and in some cases individuals may be more appropriately referred to another local service.
How the Program Operates
This program provides services to children up to 11 years who have, or are at risk of developing mental illness and/or behavioural/emotional disorders. GPs and Paediatricians are able to refer consumers to this service. • Funds are available for GPs to refer patients to the Central Coast Medicare Local’s contracted or employed Allied Health Providers for the provision of ‘time-limited’ focussed psychological strategies. Referrals must occur in the context of a GP Child Treatment Plan. • Patients are eligable for a maximum of 12 sessions per calendar year • All CC GPs are able to access patient referrals via this program.
www.ccnswml.com.au
Mental Health Line 1800 011 511