Courses and Upskilling for Schools & Professionals working with Youth

Have a listen to Ep68 with Vaughan Cleary from Assumption College in Victoria if you want to be inspired for future learning for our kids. Come on NSW school leaders!

It’s Time We Talked is an Australian violence prevention project that supports young people, parents, schools, government and the community sector to understand and address the influence of pornography.

Relationships Australia – The program is for 12 to 18-year-old high school students and is usually offered in partnership with schools during school hours, on school premises.

For parents, schools and professionals. We help gamers and their families find a healthier relationship with gaming.

For professionals working with children and young people affected by family violence.

I have spent most of my 20 year career with young people on the edge of disengaging from school. During that time I supported thousands of young people and gathered insights which enable me to present to high school students about wise choices, healthy relationships and identity.

Presentation available to schools. Award winning speaker, author and educator Michelle Mitchell has combined her 20 years’ experience, with the latest research, interviews with nationally recognised experts and stories from professionals and everyday families, to give parents and professionals fresh insights into ‘how-to’ prevent, understand and respond to self-harm.

Discovering the Impact of Pornography. Aimed at middle school. With 78% of young people seeing pornography by the time they are 12 years old, this topic is one which we can’t afford to leave unaddressed.  This presentation tastefully addresses the topic of pornography with a focus on soft pornography and wise choices online.

My aim is to educate, collaborate, support and uplift families/carers, individuals & professionals who are neurodivergent (Autistic, ADHD, learning differences, etc.) themselves, who support a neurodivergent individual or who may just be looking to understand more about neurodiversity. I will do this from my lived experience as a teacher, as a woman and as an Autistic & ADHD mum to two neurodivergent PDAers.

ADDitude Mag. From blurting out answers to bouncing off the walls, students with ADHD may display challenging behaviour. The most effective teacher strategy, though, isn’t punishment—it’s relationship-building. Get started with these five strategies.

Classroom resources: Designed to be engaging and relevant to your students. Includes resources to share with parents and carers to ensure a whole school response.

ReachOut’s whole-school approach to student wellbeing. Engaging activities for students. Credible, flexible resources for teachers. Practical support for parents and carers.

Prevention United is a new national charity with big ambitions. We’re different. Unlike other mental health organisations in Australia, we have an exclusive focus on promoting mental wellbeing and preventing mental health conditions – across the entire spectrum of conditions.

For over 20 years Greg has been committed to providing neurodevelopmentally informed therapy to children, as well as workshops to parents and professionals promoting compassionate, collaborative and brain-based interventions to support children of all abilities.

Making SPACE for Learning Australian Childhood Foundation Trauma Informed Practice in Schools.

Empowering recovery from complex trauma.

Over the last thirty years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences.

Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.

Twenty10’s suicide awareness and intervention training program.

We’re a purpose-driven organisation, aiming to keep as many people across the world safe online through education and empowerment.

We’re bringing sex-positivity to sex ed!

Family Planning NSW is the leading provider of reproductive and sexual health education for schools teachers.

Family Planning NSW is a leading provider of reproductive and sexual health education for people working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including young people from those groups.

Family Planning NSW is a leading provider of reproductive and sexual health education for youth workers and people working with young people.

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Helpline and online counselling. Also other help you might need plus advocacy and training.

Full Stop Australia is here to put a full stop to sexual, domestic or family violence through support, education, and advocacy.

Anyone with a beating heart should watch this movie! An observational documentary, filmed over two years, follows boys in a youth program that Bernie runs from a shed on the outskirts of Armidale, a rural town in Australia. On the road, the boys find their voice, make great friendships and the dogs become national champions. But as the boys sleep under the stars at night the trauma is never too far away.

Lucy Clark talks about her daughter’s situation trying, wanting, failing to attend school. A must listen for every parent and teacher with a young person struggling to attend school or just struggling with school in general.

Contains information and advice for clinicians, clients and families, self assessments, community education and training, resources and tons more.

I’m a clinical psychologist empowering joyful, resilient parent-child relationships by translating neuroscience research into practical and compassionate tools and strategies. Mona Delahooke’s books are so important for parents and educators alike.

Dr. Greene is a clinical psychologist, and he’s been working with children and families for over 30 years. His influential work is widely known throughout the world. He is the creator of CPS – Collaborative and Proactive Solutions.

Go straight to the amazing podcast series led by Northern Beaches parent, advocate and kick arse woman Lou Kuchel.

“Sometimes the anger is a sign something’s wrong, but it’s not always about being angry”.

A message from Maggie Dent on boys not listening at school. How not listening can be a coping mechanism for stress and not an intentional choice.

Retreats, camps, schools and corporate.

We work with people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, health professionals and partner organisations across NSW to support good mental health. Multilingual resources, health professionals, shared stories, lived experience, suicide prevention etc.

Embrace provides a national platform for Australian mental health services and multicultural communities to access resources, services and information in a culturally accessible format. Mountains of knowledge, resources, personal stories, multilingual information, service providers, community information and more.

Free grief support. Phone, online forums, support groups and grief training. Our online learning and workshops are available to anyone – from licensed mental health practitioners seeking professional development, to workplaces, community groups and schools seeking evidence-based programs for employees and volunteers.

Bereavement program support for schools.

Victorian based peer support network for supporters and workers with LGBTQIA+ youth. Tons of resources that are useful to anyone.

Learn about what discrimination is, how the law protects you, and what your rights are if you experience discrimination. If you’ve experienced discrimination in New South Wales, you can lodge a complaint with us. Our services are free.

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring that every student, including students with disability, have access to education in a sustainable and effective manner during the COVID-19 pandemic.

See where the government stands on supporting students with a disability in their education. How students should be supported and legal frameworks.

Fact Sheet 1: Disability Discrimination Act 1992
This fact sheet summarises the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

Our goal is to educate and support schools, teachers, parents, carers, families and individuals who are Neurodivergent themselves, teach and support Neurodivergent students or just seek a better understanding of Neurodiversity.

The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) provides strategies that enables teachers to increase engagement of students with complex, unmet learning needs and to successfully improve all students’ self-regulation, relationships, wellbeing, growth and academic achievement.

Trauma-Informed Education is designed to bridge the gap from knowing about the effects of trauma to being able to fully implement a trauma-informed approach in your classroom! From the USA these trainings are created to help you develop a better understanding of your students, and provide supportive strategies grounded in a trauma-informed approach!

The Regulated Classroom© is a collection of practices and tools for educators to embed into daily routines and activities in order to promote a more consistently regulated and stable environment for learning. The Regulated Classroom is designed around the principles of Polyvagal Theory and distilled into a paradigm that is accessible and practical for educators.

When autistic kids hold it all together at school or otherwise known as ‘had a great day’ and explode when they get back to their safe place. Explained by an autistic adult. Main story starts at the 4min mark.

The Mission Australia Youth Survey is Australia’s largest online youth survey, providing a platform for young people aged 15 to 19 to ‘speak up’ about the issues that really concern them. Here you can encourage your young people to have a voice or have a look at the results from last year.

For all things Disability Rights. Services include legal advice, casework, referrals, delivery of Community Legal Education and many resources.

Australia’s national eating disorder research and clinical excellence institute. Contains many resources on everything about eating disorders for parents, carers and professionals in many settings.

InsideOut is a leader in innovative training for health professionals in the identification, assessment and treatment of people with eating disorders. Also contains resources for parents and carers.

A blog from Michelle Mitchell – ex teacher, writer, speaker on all things adolescence. How to Talk to a Teen About Counselling: Ideas That Could Make All the Difference.

Give your students skills to support their Mental Health. Engage your students using peer voices, with easy to run video-based lessons created by Clinical Psychologists & Educators.

PRISM Inclusivity Training is a one-day practical workshop. PRISM helps you explore how better practice principles can make a difference for you, your organisation, service or school when working with LGBTIQA+ people, including young people.

Programs that engage primary and secondary school pupils, along with their parents, teachers and other influential adults play an important role in preventing alcohol and other drug harms in young people.

In the ‘The Real Deal on Drugs’ podcast series Paul Dillon answers the questions he is most regularly asked by students across the country. It is important to remember that the content has been developed with young people in mind and aims to provide them with the information they want to know about alcohol and other drugs.

This toolbox provides practitioners in the youth Alchohol and Other Drugs field with reliable and current information to help to increase their knowledge and enrich their practice.