The first step is to learn more about Be You. What is Be You? Why register Be You? How can Be You work for you?
Once everyone has looked at Be You, reflect as a team how you can develop awareness of and promote the importance of mental health and wellbeing in your learning community. The Planning and Implementation Tools can help you along the way. The Be You Statement of Commitment (which your Action Team Leader can access) can help Action Teams raise awareness about the importance of taking a whole learning community approach to promoting positive mental health. The Statement is also a great way to introduce Be You to families in your learning community.
This step addresses how and where to access Be You. When considering a whole setting approach, encourage individual educators to register and identify their service or school.
Leadership is one of the fundamental foundations for success in a Be You community. As the Action Team leader, identify other educators to help in implementing the whole learning community approach. Use the existing expertise among staff. This can be as simple as asking an educator who is passionate about mental health and wellbeing in their community.
Thinking through the potential risks and challenges helps maximise your ability to launch, commit and sustain the Be You learning and develop professional resiliency. You can use reflective questions to inform this process such as: How will we make time? What supports will we need? How will we grow and nurture a culture of collective responsibility?