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Growing a mentally healthy generation

Be You provides educators with knowledge, tools and resources to create positive, inclusive and responsive learning communities where every child, young person, educator and family is empowered to achieve their best possible mental health.

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How Be You works – 1:41

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Why should educators join Be You?

Be You is the national mental health and wellbeing initiative for learning communities in Australia.

Our free, evidence-informed tools and resources can be used in your everyday practice. They are designed to fit within your early learning service’s or school’s existing framework.

Delivered by Beyond Blue in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and headspace, Be You's goal is to empower and support educators to promote mental health and wellbeing for every child and young person in Australia.

About Be You

Information for

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Pre-service

Future educators in Vocational Education and Training or at university

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Educators

Teachers, early childhood educators, support staff

Leaders

Leadership team members, wellbeing team members

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Action Teams

Educators implementing Be You in their early learning service or school

Supporting educators to
support learning communities

More than 11,000 Australian early learning services and schools are registered with Be You.

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Discovery ELC's tailored approach to using Be You – 6:37

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Discover how educators from early learning services and schools are tailoring and implementing Be You across Australia.

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Be You Consultants guide registered Be You Learning Communities through our resources and connect educators with other networks. They support Action Teams to identify and prioritise your learning community’s needs and create a tailored plan for action.
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Join as a Be You Learning Community 

Be You individual and learning community registration is free for all educators in early learning services and schools across Australia. 

To get the most out of Be You, register as a Be You Learning Community.

  1. Appoint Action Team Leaders and ensure they register with Be You as an individual

  2. Once signed up, Action Team Leaders can register your early learning service or school as a Be You Learning Community

As part of a Be You Learning Community, Action Team Leaders will be able to access: 

  • the full resource library
  • planning and implementation tools
  • a Be You Consultant to support your learning community.
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