Psychological first aid for schools (PFA-S) field operations guide

Psychological First Aid for children is an internationally accepted strategy that can be used anytime, but is most widely used in the first hours, days and weeks following a traumatic event. This tip card includes some practical ways that Psychological First Aid for children can be applied.

As a teacher, you are in an excellent position to help your students after a disaster, school crisis, or emergency. Just as you help connect students with appropriate academic and counselling services under normal circumstances, you are in an excellent position to help your students return to school, stay in school, continue to learn, and return to their usual school-based activities after such an event. This factsheet helps teachers introduce the steps of psychological first aid for students after a disaster, school crisis or emergency.

This resource was created to help us understand how stigma effects families. Families share their stories to show the harms stigma can cause.

Stigma can show up in our thoughts about others even when we don’t want it to. This resource can help us notice and question those thoughts.

There are many ways we can respond to shame and stigma. The families we talked to share their ideas for making home a safe haven.

Read the stories of families who were shown care, compassion and kindness in the face of shame and stigma, and how it impacted their experiences.

In this resource we take a look at what shame is, where it can come from and how it can trick us into believing that there is something wrong with us.

There are many ways we can respond to shame and stigma. The families we talked to share how they made meaning of their experiences with shame and stigma.

Read the stories of families standing up to shame and stigma by responding directly - on their own or with the support of others - when it feels safe to do so.

This guide was developed by families for parents or carers who want to talk about their children’s wellbeing to educators.

Families and children are always standing up to shame and stigma. This resource shares stories of the ways families have responded to shame and stigma.