Evidence base

Building from evidence

Be You is grounded in the evidence-base relating to mental health promotion in education. It builds on the evolution of national initiatives like MindMatters, KidsMatter Primary, KidsMatter Early Childhood, and Response Ability. These programs laid the foundation for a consistent, whole-community approach to wellbeing in early learning services and schools. 

Foundational research shows the critical role of education settings in supporting children’s and young people’s mental health, demonstrating: 

• Mental health issues like anxiety and depression can emerge in early childhood 
• Building the capacity of early learning services and schools improves outcomes for children and young people and the broader learning community. 

Be You helps address these challenges by providing evidence-based professional learning, tools and resources and implementation support for educators and leaders.  

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Download key evidence resources  

Be You Evidence Summary (439 KB, PDF) 

An overview of the key principles that have informed Be You’s design, development and implementation. 

Be You Professional Learning literature reviews

Explore the evidence that underpins each of the 5 Be You Professional Learning domains.