Mental Health Education for
Schools, Communities & Workplaces

For Students in Years 7 to 10
 3 x one-hour workshops

Module 1: Starting Conversations

• Mental-ill health symptoms and misconceptions
• How to check in with a friend
• Identifying other mental health services

Module 2: Facing Challenges

• Identifying risk factors including substance use, loneliness and social media

Module 3: Positive Choices

• Practice ways to boost mental wellbeing
• Introduction to mindfulness meditation

For Students in Years 10 to 12
One hour workshop

This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:

• Practicing Mental Fitness
• Awareness of emotional skills including adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies
• Introduction to mindfulness meditation

For Students in Years 6 to 9
One-hour workshop

This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:

• The positives of social media
• Social media and links to mental health issues
• Not believing everything you see on social media
• Cyber-bullying
• Healthy and safe social media use

For Students in Years 5 to 7
one-hour workshop

• Types of bullying
  • On-line
  • Off-line
• Why people bully
• Ways to prevent bullying

For parents/caregivers of children 2-10 years 
90-minute workshop

• What mental health challenges look like in children
• Identify risk and protective factors associated with self-resilience
• Develop supporting strategies
• Customise resilience-building activities to the unique needs of the child

For adults, teachers and community groups
One-hour workshop

This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:

• Investigating protective factors
• Living out the Mental Healthy WA “Act – Belong – Commit” message
• How to check in with a friend

For adults and community groups
One-hour workshop

This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:

• Identifying signs and symptoms of common mental health challenges
• Talking to someone you are worrying about
• Accessing and referring to support services

For Primary School Staff
90-minute workshop

This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:

• Investigating anxiety in young people
• Recognising and understanding emotions and feelings
• Supporting strategies to promote confidence and independence
• Implementing mindfulness in the classroom

For adults and community groups
 One-hour workshop

This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:

• Social media and links to mental health issues
• Recognising risks; fear of missing out, addiction and loneliness
• Cyber-bullying
• Promoting healthy and safe social media use

For any adults or groups
30-minute workshop

This workshop aims to increase knowledge and understanding about:

• HelpingMinds Free Services
• How to access them
• When to access them

Focus on building resilience, emotional awareness and coping strategies using hands-on craft mediums

This workshop aims to

• Build skills consistently in a defined period.
• Build peer support relationships and networks based on shared experience.
• Use craft as a conduit for communicating and expressing difficult emotions.

Focus on healthy friendships, protective behaviours regarding bullying, gaining and maintain friends

The workshop aims to

• Provide education for youth around self-esteem issues.
• Identify and appropriately implement healthy boundaries.
• Explore and explain consent and communication around levels of comfort.
• Encourage an assessment on personal limits.

Focus on exploring emotion regulation for young males. 

This workshop aims to provide skills to help

• Children to emotionally regulate during times of stress.
• Learning to communicate emotional limits, triggers and vulnerabilities.
• Maintain healthy relationships with others.
• Identify and respect the boundaries of others.

Focus on gaining awareness of the right to feel safe. 

This workshop aims to

• Help children learning about and identify feelings.
• Encourage and explainin early warning signs.
• Teach problem solving techniques.
• Improve body awareness, assertiveness and communicating body autonomy.

Focus on the mental health challenges for youth transitioning to high school

The workshop aims to

• Address the challenges that transitioning to high school can provide.
• Explain how to ask for help.
• Explain the right pathways to access support.
• Improve resilience in the face of adversity.