Search Results for "looking after your wellbeing"
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From isolation to connection: a guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people
Child Safety Commissioner, Melbourne VictoriaThis guide is for people working with, caring for, or in contact with children and young people whose lives have been hurt by abuse, neglect or other trauma. -
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Shining a light on good practice in NSW: Stories from child protection and out of home care
NSW Government Family & Community ServicesThey are such different stories but they have one common feature – hardworking, courageous, compassionate and skilled people who have changed lives. We know there is a lot about our system that we need to fix. This report reminds us of so much that is working and does not need fixing. It also reminds us that our people, and the relationships they form, are the very best asset we have to offer vulnerable families. -
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Guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
Beyond BlueThese guidelines from Beyond Blue are a general set of recommendations about how you can help an Aboriginal person who may be experiencing a mental illness or developing a mental health crisis. -
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Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury
Beyond BlueGuidelines from Mental Health First Aid that have been adapted to be specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. -
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Emerging Minds welcomes National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health funding extension
The Australian Government has today announced a $110 million funding package focussed on identifying and preventing mental health problems in children and young people. This package includes a further $16 million for the Emerging Minds’ led National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, a collaboration between Emerging Minds and the… -
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Supporting Infant and Toddlers online course
Supporting Infants and Toddlers is a one to two hour online course aimed at professionals working with parents who experience mental illness and have dependent infants or very young children. The course covers: the impact of mental illness on the family throughout the antenatal period. attachment, infant and toddler development. principles… -
Practice paper
Supporting infants, children and families in an evacuation
Emerging MindsThis practice paper explains why it’s important to consider pregnant people, infants, children and families in evacuation planning and management. It provides practical considerations and strategies for ensuring evacuation procedures and centres meet the needs of infants, children and families and enhance their safety, wellbeing and recovery. -
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Disaster preparedness with a focus on infants, children and families
Emerging MindsThis practice paper is designed to help you understand the importance of disaster preparedness for not only increasing safety and protecting lives when a disaster occurs, but facilitating the recovery of individuals, families and communities. It also offers practical advice for supporting the disaster preparedness of the children and families you work with. -
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Psychological first aid with infants and children: Practice guidance (part two)
Emerging MindsPart two of two: This paper provides guidance to practitioners offering psychological first aid with infants, children and families in the context of a disaster. -
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Alcohol Addiction
ReachOut.comThis webpage helps teenagers and young adults understand alcohol addiction. -
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How to make a safety plan
ReachOut.comThis webpage helps teenagers and young adults who are struggling with suicidal thoughts create a safety plan for when things get tough. -
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Suicide in schools – Information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
Headspace National Youth Mental Health OrganisationThis fact sheet explains how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families can support their young ones through a suicide that has occurred within the community.