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School Can’t – formerly School Refusal

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ReachOut: Free One on One Parent Support

A free coaching service for parents and carers. Create clarity and increase confidence to support your teen through a tough time.

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School Refusal: Psychology Today

A blog from Peter Gray Ph.D. School Refusal: Crime, Mental Disorder, or Human Right? Views on school refusal depend on beliefs about children and human rights.

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One Question Podcast

Our Schools Are Broken
with Adriano Di Prato – former President of the Victorian Catholic Secondary Schools Deputy Principals Association

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Book: Beyond Behaviours – Dr Mona Delahooke

Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioural Challenges.

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Article: The Age

Lockdowns are over but anxiety lingers as more Victorian students refuse school.

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Blog Post: The Passable Parent

Forcing My Kids into School: My Biggest Regret

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Embrace Difference

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.

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Podcast: Rethinking Education

Fran Morgan and Ellie Costello on speaking up for young people who struggle to attend school.

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Youtube: Lucy Clark author of Beautiful Failures

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.

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Book: Beautiful Failures – Lucy Clark

I want to tell you a story about my daughter, my beautiful failure. Every day of her high school life was a struggle. She woke up in the morning and the thought of going to school was like an enormous mountain to climb.

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School Can’t Australia – Facebook Support Page

Support page for parents and carers of school can’t kids. So much support here with almost 9,000 families with lived experience. And resources. You will quickly realise you’re not alone.

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Psychology Today – Autistic Kids and School

Are We Giving Autistic Children PTSD From School? When we don’t understand autistic kids we create a toxic environment for them.

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Family Advocacy

We work with families to defend and promote the rights and interests of people with developmental disability.

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Message from the mother of a struggling teen

We all need to hear this from comedian Kristina Kuzmic…”If the timeline that you have set for yourself, or the world has set for you does not work out, that’s okay. Prioritise your mental health and be so proud of your achievements whenever they come.” Go to resource for a bit more of the story….

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