RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITY
MENTAL HEALTH
Australian Communication and Media Authority
Cybersmart Resource for Schools
Resources for schools addressing cyber safety issues including policy guidance and lesson plans.
Beyond Blue
beyondblue is working to reduce the impact of depression and anxiety in the community by raising awareness and understanding, empowering people to seek help, and supporting recovery, management and resilience. The website includes resources for schools and teachers.
Black Dog Institute
The Black Dog Institute is a world leader in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. It’s website offers information and links to resources.
HeadStrong, a free downloadable curriculum for teaching about mood disorders. Aligned to the Health & Physical Education curriculum and the new National Curriculum for Years 9-10, HeadStrong includes 5 modules that are split into a series of ready to use classroom activities and teacher development notes. Each module links directly to curriculum outcomes.
Bite Back
Website promoting mental health and wellbeing for children and adolescents.
Calmer Classrooms: A Guide to working with traumatised children
Child Safety Commissioner, Victoria
Information for teachers about the impact of abuse and neglect on learning, and incorporating “relationship-based” practices into classroom management.
Case Management
Resources regarding the implementation of case management practices in a school environment.
Duty Of Care
Guidelines for Schools in the management of students expressing suicidal ideation or attempting suicide. Modified from the Duty of Care document Victorian Education Department.
Available from the Catholic Education Office (02) 4253 0842
Framework for Student Support Services- Teacher Resource
Department of Education Victoria
Teacher resource document designed to assist teachers and schools to strengthen pastoral care and curriculum support in schools.
Head Room
Website to support mental health and wellbeing for children, young adolescents and parents. Free teacher resources are also included.
headspace
Online counseling support, information about local headspace centres, resources for schools and teachers.
headspace school support
Suicide prevention and intervention fact sheets and a suicide postvention toolkit. Free to download.
Learning Adjustments from the Queensland Department of Education
Information, educational implications and possible adjustments to download about Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Eating Disorders.
Kids Matter
KidsMatter is a school wide mental health and wellbeing framework for primary schools and early childhood education.
Kogarah Developmental Assessment Service
Cnr Railway Pde & Belgrave St
Kogarah NSW 2217
(02) 9587 2444
Clinics for medical assessment and offering a range of specialties including neurology, psychiatry, rehabilitation, nutrition and genetics, for children, adolescents and adults with a developmental disability.
Lessons Learned from ‘Fawns in Gorilla Suits,’ by David Crenshaw and John Mordock, Residential Treatment For Children & Youth, 22: 4, 33 – 47
Key research findings and clinical insights into severely wounded and traumatised children.
Making Space for Learning: Trauma Informed Practice in Schools
Australian Childhood Foundation
Free on line training and resources for health, welfare and education professionals.
Medicare Local
Information about Medicare Local clinics and services in local districts, providing access to mental healthcare professionals.
Mental Health in Schools A Guide to Pastoral and Curriculum Provision, Mark Prever, 2006.
Highly practical book useful for research, discussion and classroom practice.
Mental Health of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
A Framework for Professional Practice, Edited by David Dossetor, Donna White and Lesley Whatson, 2011.
This book has an interdisciplinary authorship offering a variety of perspectives within the bio-developmental-psycho-social framework. It is explains the science and theory underpinning our present understanding, and provides guidance about interventions and services.
Mind Blank
Interactive Theatre experience for adolescents, generating awareness and education about mental health for youth. Topics covered include depression, drug and alcohol use, sexuality, family relationships.
Mind Matters
Mind Matters is a national mental health initiative for secondary schools. It offers comprehensive professional development and resources for schools and teachers, and promotes school wide approaches to wellbeing and mental health.
The Mind Up Curriculum: Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning and Living (K – 8)
The Hawn Foundation, 2011.
Mind Up is a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum framed around lessons which foster social and emotional awareness, enhance psychological well-being, and promote academic success.
Path to Life
A Framework for Pastoral Care and Wellbeing for Systemic Catholic School in the Diocese of Wollongong
Available from the Catholic Education Office Wollongong 4253 0936
Reachout
Comprehensive website promoting mental health and wellbeing for adolescents
Reachout Teachers Network
Website for teachers and professionals supporting adolescent wellbeing. It includes information and a wide variety of free high quality resources, including a Resiliency program.
Report Card – The Wellbeing of Young Australians, 2013
Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
The report card presents a framework for understanding the health and wellbeing of young Australians and reflects what young people and families say is important to them in improving child and youth wellbeing.
Response Ability
Response Ability aims to improve mental health outcomes for all Australians, through a focus on mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention, and suicide prevention in children and young people. It has significant focus on educators and student wellbeing.
SSAT – The Schools Network, Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities, Department for Education, UK
There are nine briefing packs each of which focuses on a condition which is commonly foundto overlap with others inchildren with complex learning difficulties and disabilities (CLDD).The packs cover the areas of: Attachment disorders, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Autism and autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Fragile-X syndrome, Mental health, Prematurity, Rare chromosome disorders, Sensory impairments.
St Luke’s Innovative Resources - Seriously Optimistic Materials
Innovative Resources creates and markets materials and resources that promote a strengths-based philosophy, use straightforward language and require no special training.
South West Sydney Family Referral Service
Ph. 1300 244 826
For families and young people who need support.
School Link Coordinators
Illawarra/Shoalhaven
David BunderSchool-Link Coordinator - ISLHD
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
1-5 Atchison St WOLLONGONG NSW 2500
Tel 02 4254 1532
Mob 0427 424 514
Fax 02 4254 1555
South Western Sydney
Belinda CooleySchool Link Coordinator
Infant Child Adolescent Mental Health (ICAMHS)
email -
phone - 02 9616 4265
South Western Sydney Local Health District
Location: Area Administration, Mental Health
Level One, Liverpool Hospital.
Post: Locked Bag 7103, Liverpool BC 1871
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Westmead Children’s Hospital
Jodie Caruana | School-Link Coordinator | Department of Psychological Medicine | Parramatta
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t: (02) 98917208 | e: w: f: 02 98917222
CHW School-Link: supporting the mental health of children and adolescents with an intellectual disability
Cnr Hawkesbury Road and Hainsworth Street, Westmead Locked Bag 4001, Westmead NSW 2145
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