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New practice paper: Does labelling racism as bullying perpetuate a colour-blind approach when working with culturally diverse families?
Bullying and racism are two distinct yet interconnected issues that impact children’s mental health, development and overall wellbeing. Children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities often experience both bullying and racism. Understanding their similarities and distinctions, and employing effective responses is fundamental for creating a safe and inclusive environment… -
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New resources to share with families: Supporting children through experiences of bullying
Bullying is a common childhood experience that can cause physical and psychological harm. It’s important for all children and parents to talk about childhood bullying, know what to do if it occurs and how to best prevent it. This suite of resources from Emerging Minds Families has been created… -
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Seeking expressions of interest: Education leaders interested in contributing to the Family Partnerships workforce package for educators
Emerging Minds has worked with educators and education leaders to develop a suite of resources to support family partnerships in schools and early learning services, including a new model for family partnerships, online courses and a range of practical tools. To inform the next stage of this project, Emerging… -
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New resources: Pre-teen social media use
The pre-teen years are a time of rapid change, including how children are engaging in and using social media. Due to a range of factors such as higher technology and literacy skills, children in the pre-teen years are more independent online and can engage on a variety of different platforms… -
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Perinatal Mental Health Week: 12–18 November 2023
This week is Perinatal Mental Health Week and the theme for 2023 is ‘Connection through conversation’. PANDA created Perinatal Mental Health Week to help the community and health professionals to better understand perinatal mental health. To achieve positive outcomes for infants and families, it’s important that support is available which… -
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Celebrating Children’s Week
21–29 October 2023 was Children’s Week, a national celebration of children’s rights, talents and citizenship. This year’s theme was ‘Children have the right to relax, play and to join in a wide range of leisure activities’. Children’s Week is a wonderful opportunity to promote the rights of children and… -
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Reframing Children’s Mental Health: A communications toolkit
October was Mental Health Awareness Month, a reminder of the importance of looking after our mental health and checking in on those around us. This year’s theme was ‘We all have a role to play’, ensuring that we take some time to look after our own wellbeing, care for… -
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New fact sheet: Talking to children about war and conflict
It can be hard to know how to explain war and conflict to children, or if you should even talk about them at all. You may be struggling to make sense of what you’re seeing, hearing and feeling yourself. It’s normal to want to protect children from the violent reality… -
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Important update: Child-aware supervision online course
We will soon be retiring the online course Child-aware supervision. If you have already completed this course, please ensure you download your certificate prior to Tuesday, 31 October, 2023 for your professional development records. An updated version of this course has been produced and you can find Supervision for children’s… -
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New online course: Supervision for children’s wellbeing
Child-aware supervision is an approach that supervisors of frontline workers can take to promote child- and family-sensitive practices in their work with clients who have families. It incorporates attitudes, strategies and techniques that support workers (and organisations) to identify and respond to the needs of children. It continually aims to… -
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New online course: Understanding brain development
Brains aren’t just born; they’re built over time. Nurturing and responsive relationships and safe environments are key to developing thriving brains. In partnership with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) and the Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP), and in collaboration with The University of Queensland’s Queensland… -
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National workforce survey for family, parent and child mental health
Help improve mental health outcomes for children in Australia with our national survey In order to best meet the needs of health, social and community services workers across a range of professions all over Australia, we, along with our delivery partners, are conducting a national workforce survey for family, parent and child…