Understanding the concepts of mental health and wellbeing in children and young people is key to your engagement with the Be You Professional Learning. We all have mental health, no matter our developmental stage – including for you as an adult.
Your position along a continuum of mental health will be influenced by a range of risk and protective factors, and environmental influences. In particular, mental health and wellbeing is most likely to occur in an inclusive environment, where people have supportive relationships with each other.
Read the supporting evidence behind Mentally Healthy Communities.
Accreditation and endorsement
All registered teachers in every state and territory must ensure they have added their teacher registration number and state/territory
to the My Profile page.
Please see FAQs for more detail on the Be You Professional Learning upload process and time frames in which participants can expect their learning to be recorded with their relevant organisation.
In the ACT, completing Mentally Healthy Communities will contribute three (3) hours of ACT Teacher Quality Institute (TQI) accredited professional learning addressing standard 4.4.2 Maintain Student Safety of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
In NSW, completing Mentally Healthy Communities will contribute four (4) hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Student/child Mental health addressing standard descriptor 4.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW. Teachers must complete all three modules within this domain (Understand, Connect and Include) to receive accredited hours.
Modules
Understand
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Understanding mental health and wellbeing.
Connect
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Connect through strong relationships.
Include
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Include by embracing diversity within the community.