Mental health and Wellbeing Service
At Yarrabah School we place significant emphasis on supporting students' Mental Health and Wellbeing. This is achieved by always meeting the student where they are at, not where they 'should be' and work up from there. We work from out of the classrooms but also from our dedicated wellbeing centre, at the heart of the school called Carinya Wellbeing Centre.
This service provides students, staff and families a vast array of expertly led supports. All of our team are university-qualified practitioners with expertise in the area of mental health, trauma-informed practices, student counselling, complex behaviour support, reflective practice and NDIS navigation.
Yarrabah service providers are available all week. We allocate staff across all areas of the school. The team meet weekly and consists of:
Wellbeing Leader - Samantha Harris, Lead Social Worker (Secondary MHP) 5 days
Student Wellbeing - Bethany Prunty, Social Worker, 4 days
Behaviour Support Practitioner - Ashleigh Corbett, Board Certified ABA Therapist, 3 days
NDIS Navigator and Future Pathways - Lisa Wilson, Expert Teacher, 3 days
School Assistant Principal - Lauri Davis, 5 days
Services Include:
Contributing to whole-school approaches to mental health prevention and promotion
work with complex behaviour and provide support to students and staff
Train staff on behaviour/engagement/ mental health and wellbeing referrals
training school staff on trauma-informed practices and complex behaviour supports, Safeminds, Be You, eSafety etc
1:1 counselling and clinical supervision
Student emotional challenges and mental health, including stress and anxiety support and management
Self-harm and suicide ideation support and referrals
Liaise and make referrals with the relevant internal and external services
Staff reflective practice
Student social difficulties
Family challenges, including family break-up
Grief and loss
Student Attendance and school avoidance, 'school can't'.
Child safety concerns
Family support service referrals
NDIS navigation support for parent and carers
Well-being initiatives: parent groups, staff training, wellbeing information etc