Wellbeing
What information is available for you and your family?
Your health and wellbeing has an effect on how you go about your day. If you have good mental health and wellbeing, you might find it easier to deal with difficult situations. If your mental health is low, everyday actions might become a challenge.
Below are various resources to help improve your health and wellbeing including mindfulness activities.
If you need some help or support or just want to talk through a parenting issue, our counsellors are here for you. Parentline counsellors provide confidential advice and support for parents, carers or professionals living in NSW, seven days a week.
Mental Health Line - 1800 011 511
Kids Help Line - 1800 551 800
Parent Line - 1300 130 052
Beyond Blue - 1300 224 636
Youth Beyond Blue - 1300 224 636
Lifeline - 13 11 14
Beyond Blue provides information and support to help all achieve their best possible mental health. Below are some topics you can find more information about:
BeYou focuses on providing educational resources for you to help support children and young people. These resources include:
Kids Helpline give children and young people a safe place to turn to. Professional counsellors are available to talk to at any time, about anything. They also have information on how to use the internet safely, what to do when you are fighting with friends and it is okay to make mistakes.
They also have a podcast available - H R U? where they discuss some of the challenges that children and young people may face daily.
The Department of Health created Head to Health to help provide you with trusted, Australian links to online and phone support as well as resources about improving your mental health.
ReachOut is an online mental health organisation that provides you with tools and up to help you get through the everyday challenges and tough times. They have tips on how to improve your mindfulness and to help you relax;
They also have an app - ReachOut Breathe that helps to reduce stress and anxiety.
For resources on how to support teens during Coronavirus, click here.
WayAhead is a mental health association within New South Wales that aims to educate and link people to mental health and wellbeing services and resources. They provide information on Wellbeing, Mental Health and Supporting and Caring.
headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds. headspace can help young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health) alcohol and other drug services, and work and study support.
Emerging Minds provides information and resources on mental health, services and interventions as well as training and programs for children and young people. They have information on children's rights, relationships matters and cultural and spiritual identity.
Emerging Minds have partnered with FrameWorks to create a communications toolkit, Reframing Children's Mental Health.
Emerging Minds also have some resources to support children during a pandemic
Helpful Resources and Documents
The below resources are information that you might find useful
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Helping children understand emotions when wearing masks
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Mental Health Hub for Students, Parents and Teachers
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Self Care A-Z
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Children of Parents with a Mental Illness - Booklets and Website Resources
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How to cope with the stress of natural disasters - Headspace
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Self-Harm in Adolescents: A Guide for Parents and Carers
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Talking through play: 3 ways puppets can help your child open up
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Expert Guidance on What Young Kids Should Drink and Avoid including guidelines that can help set children on the path for healthy growth and development
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5 facts about Health that are often misunderstood
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The experience we have early in life are at least as important for the biological foundations of physical and mental health as the lifestyle choices we make as adults
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Poor health outcomes are not inevitable after experiencing adversity early in life, but are more likely if we do not adequately support children and families experiences hardships or challenges
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When the developing brain and other biological systems adapt to what they experience in their environment, it may be positive in the short term but negative in the long term
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The body's stress response is the same, no matter what causes it, but a pile-up of stressors over time means there's less time for recovery
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All policies and delivery systems serving young children and families across sectors can support both early learning and the foundations of lifelong health
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COVID-19 is Making Kids Anxious: What can parents do?
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What 'The Lion King' teaches us about children's grief
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Emerging Minds Paper - Working with Separating Parents to Support Children's Wellbeing
The below are helpful resources around children who have sensory needs.
