Mentally Healthy Communities

 

Understanding the concepts of mental health and wellbeing in children and young people is key to your engagement with Be You Professional Learning. We all have mental health, no matter our developmental stage – including for you as an adult.

Mental health can be viewed as being on a continuum. A person's mental health position on this continuum will be influenced by a range of risk and protective factors and environmental influences. Positive mental health and wellbeing are most likely to occur in an inclusive environment where people have supportive relationships with each other. 

Early learning services, schools and school age care services – and the educators within them – play a role in fostering mentally healthy communities.

If you’re a school age care educator, modules in the primary school stream may be the most suitable for you.

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 details 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 four (4) 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.