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An important part of headspace Southport's role in community is to promote headspace services to young people, parents/caregivers, schools and organisations. Our Community Engagement team do this by collaborating with education providers on the Gold Coast and offering presentations about headspace services and how we can collaborate on events or activities.
Want to plan something together? Connect with our Community Engagement Team.
Mental Health Education Programs
Unfortunately, our local Community Engagement Team cannot offer presentations or workshops on mental health education.
But, our friends at headspace Schools & Communities can! Here are some evidenced-based, clinician-led programs and other offerings specifically developed for schools that may be able to help with your request.
Programs for students
Mental Health Education Program
In-Person Workshops
The Mental Health Education Program delivers free in-person mental health education workshops to secondary school communities across Australia. The workshops are free, interactive, strength-based, evidence-informed and timed to fit a standard school lesson.
Year 6-7:
Transitions: Primary to Secondary – For year 6 students moving into secondary school, to prepare them for the changes ahead.
Year 10-12:
Transitions: Leaving School - For senior students transitioning out of school, to prepare them for the changes ahead.
Year 7-12:
The Mental Health Education Program delivers a range of in-person workshops at secondary schools covering topics that impact young people, including:
- Let’s Talk About It: mental health
- Looking out for your friends: Notice, Ask, Connect
- In Your Power: Navigating Bullying and Mental Health
- Self-care: looking after your mental health
- Naming and understanding our emotions
- Culture, identity and wellbeing
- Connection & Wellbeing
NEW Online Workshops
The Mental Health Education Program now offers virtual classrooms and online events to secondary school communities across Australia. The workshops aim to increase mental health literacy, reduce stigma, and build the capacity of young people to understand their own wellbeing needs, support their peers and explore pathways for help-seeking.
Online workshops offered:
- Let’s Talk About It: Mental Health
- Looking out for your friends: Notice, Ask, Connect
- In Your Power: Navigating Bullying and Mental Health
- Self-care: looking after your mental health
- Naming & understanding our emotions
- Culture, identity, and wellbeing
- Connection & Wellbeing
Download Virtual Classrooms Flyer
More important information
- The Mental Health Education Program workshops in-person and online are all free!
- Workshops are designed for 50—60 students or less so they can be as engaging and interactive as possible. The team cannot attend schools for single sessions and require full days of back-to back workshops e.g. 4 workshops per day.
- Not a crisis service – they do not offer workshops to schools that have just been impacted by a death by suicide or other tragedy.
- If you are interested email MHEP@headspace.org.au or for more information click here.
Programs for Educators and Services
Be You Program
Be You is the national mental health and wellbeing initiative for learning communities; delivered by Beyond Blue, in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and headspace.
What they offer:
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· Be You consultants can support schools in the suicide postvention space, providing consultation following a suicide death in their school. This can include next steps guidance and best practice support for them to manage their response.
- Be You do not generally attend schools onsite, as they cover the whole of QLD, so instead they conduct their consultations over the phone or via online platforms.
- If you are ever made aware of a suicide death in a school, please contact the QLD Be You consultant on 0455 079 803.
One more free program...
Kids Helpline @ Schools
Kids Helpline @ Schools offers free, counsellor-led educational sessions for high schools Australia-wide!
- Connect your primary school classroom to a Kids Helpline counsellor for free!
- Free, early intervention and prevention sessions for primary schools in Australia
- Facilitated by a qualified Kids Helpline Counsellor via a video link
- Evidence-informed lessons that are educational and interactive in a fun, engaging environment
- Counsellor can work with you to tailor each session to the needs of your school or class
- If you are interested phone 0455 562 629 or email school@kidshelpline.com.au