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New online course: Replanting the Birthing Trees: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children in the first 2,000 days
For over 60,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families have provided nurturing, safe, and loving care to their children and families. However, negative historical events and unsafe practices have created disconnection from culture, Country, kinship and spirit/ancestors. These losses have had the cumulative impact of intergenerational trauma and fractured… -
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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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New micro-credential course with Flinders University
Developed as a collaborative project between Flinders University’s Social Work Discipline and Emerging Minds, this new course is designed to support and guide your learning on interpersonal trauma and its impacts on children. You will learn from experts in the field who have, between them, more than 60 years experience… -
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Emerging Minds media response: New children’s mental health strategy hailed as life changing
Emerging Minds welcomes and commends the Australian Government’s National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, launched today. “This world-first strategy brings much-needed visibility to children’s mental health and will change lives for the better,” said Emerging Minds Director Brad Morgan. “It maps out key approaches and a commitment to meeting… -
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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… -
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Response to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt’s announcement of a National Child Mental Health Strategy
Emerging Minds welcomes today’s announcement from Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt that a National Child Mental Health Strategy will be developed and implemented, believing that this will deliver early action early in life to create the best outcomes for children and their families. With half of all lifetime mental health… -
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Hear from the Child360 creators
The development of the Child360 app was a collaborative process across the National Workforce Centre, our child and family partners and health practitioners. Emerging Minds Workforce Development Officer, Sophie Guy, facilitated this collaboration and here is what she has to say about the app development. Describe the Child360 app in… -
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A new way to help support children affected by trauma
Natural disasters and other traumatic events can significantly impact on infants and children, who rely on the adults around them for safety and security. The Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health’s (NWCCMH) newly released Community Trauma Toolkit is a suite of resources to help workers and parents/carers… -
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New course: Supporting children’s resilience in general practice!
Our first course developed specifically for general practitioners, Supporting children’s resilience in general practice, is available now! The free course outlines a set of principles that will support GPs to conduct child-focused and parent-sensitive conversations in the form of a practical guide. Throughout the course GPs will explore how family and… -
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Celebrating the work of Emeritus Professor Beverley Raphael
Emerging Minds was saddened to hear of the loss of Emeritus Professor Beverley Raphael AM, MBBS, MD, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, Hon MD (Newc), FASSA. Professor Raphael has made an extraordinary lifelong contribution nationally and internationally to infant, child and adolescent mental health; trauma, loss and bereavement, prevention, women’s mental health and…