Government priority
- NSW or Commonwealth government initiated and funded responses to address identified health and wellbeing issues such as mental health.
- Provides additional resources for schools to strengthen students’ health and wellbeing, learning and life outcomes.
- Addresses and funds an area of identified high priority by government
- School receive additional resources to support students.
- Sustainability of funding dependent on the priorities of the government of the time
- Ensure any new roles are well understood by current staff and there is no duplication of effort
- Approach needs to be integrated into school supports
- Schools may require support to embed evaluation practices.
- Investment over 4 years to provide every public high school with a full-time school counselling allocation, as well as a full-time Student Support Officer
- Wellbeing Health In-reach Nurse Coordinator Program
- National School Chaplaincy Program
- Connected Communities Strategy
- Solution Brokerage
- Other initiatives where the primary focus is not on addressing student health and wellbeing needs, but encompasses strategies to address these needs through a ‘whole child’ approach include:
- Learning and Engagement Centres: addressing the Premier’s Priority of ‘Increasing the number of Aboriginal young people reaching their learning potential’ through the provision of wellbeing, academic and cultural support to enhance outcomes for secondary Aboriginal students
- Schools as Community Centres (SaCCs)
- Community Hubs