Supporting Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools

This course looks at the impact that mental health difficulties can have on student outcomes and shows how to create mentally healthy schools where students can thrive. You will learn how to identify the needs of a student with mental health needs and develop interventions and strategies to support students’ specific developmental needs.

Course Structure:

As a self-paced blended learning course, participants:
  • work through 6 modules of online course content, (licensed from and hosted by Online Training International / OLT), over a period of approximately 8-10 weeks, and
  • attend 3 mandatory online sessions (75 – 90 minutes each) with the course tutor via the WebEx platform.  

Course content​

Understanding
  • Explore the concepts wellbeing and mental health, the main influences on these and the impact of mental health difficulties on student outcomes
  • Learn about the main types of mental health disorders and their incidence, and the relationship between mental health and disability.
 
Assessment for Learning
  • Learn how and when to use wellbeing surveys and questionnaires in schools; and how to evaluate the results of these.
  • Develop a conceptual framework for supporting mental health in schools where pupils and teachers can thrive.
Interventions
  • Describe specific approaches and tools that schools can adopt to monitor and support pupil wellbeing
  • Create and test your own ‘whole school approach’ action plan
  • Determine when to seek further information and support from a variety of sources
Case Studies
  • View real examples that illustrate both the student voice, as well as how schools’ approach and implement wellbeing and mental health supports and interventions in their setting.
 
Successful completion of the course requires that participants:
  • read all online content, complete end of section quizzes,
  • contribute to online forum topics,
  • develop three SMART goals with accompanying interventions to apply learning into practice in both the whole school and classroom setting.
  • participate in three face-to-face sessions (WebEx meetings).
A certificate recognising 20 hours of professional learning is provided on passing the course.

Course Audience:

This course is designed for education professionals working in schools and specialist settings including teachers, school leaders, primary and secondary wellbeing officers and teams, and allied health officers.
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As components of the course focus on student assessment, goal setting and program planning, interested Education Support staff (aides) should discuss this with a teacher from their school as it is best practice for teachers and ES to collaborate on these parts of the course. 

Course Fee:

Registration process:

Step 1 - Complete the form below, providing name, role, workplace and contact details.
Step 2 – Complete the PayPal payment process below. Alternatively, your school / setting can request to be invoiced for this course by emailing a purchase order to yarra.me.sch@education.vic.gov.au 

If you have any queries regarding this course, please

Registration

    Some sessions scheduled below will be delivered via Webex while others will be presented in person. Delivery method will be confirmed closer to session start dates. Please contact us for more information.
    Courses in Term 3 2022

    Group 1: (No places available)
    Session 1: Thursday 21 July,       4pm-5:30pm​
    Session 2: Thursday 4 August,    4pm-5:30pm
    ​Session 3: Thursday 18 August,  4pm-5:30pm
    Please ensure the above details are correct then press submit to finalise payment via PayPal
COST $33   Payment due prior to the commencement of the course.
​No refunds can be provided once your registration is confirmed