Mrs Leanne Watson - Guidance Officer
Available: Thursday and Friday
As part of our Student Support Team (SST) we have a dedicated Guidance Officer (GO) who plays a crucial role in supporting the social, emotional, and educational development of our students. Our GO provides the following services to our school community:
- counselling to students individually and in small groups
- supporting students with specific wellbeing and learning needs
- collaborating with education and external practitioners, families, and other agencies to provide multidisciplinary student mental health support
- contributing to the social, emotional, and academic development of students in consultation with families and school staff
- providing psychoeducational assessments to students who are having learning difficulties
- supporting families in response to challenging and complex circumstances.
Our GO works closely with students, teachers, parents, and the wider school community to ensure that every child receives the support they need to thrive. If you have a concern regarding your child's emotional wellbeing or learning needs, please contact your classroom teacher who can refer to our Student Support team.
Phone and online support
24/7 Mental health support service.
24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention services.
LGBTI peer support and referral.
24/7 crisis support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Counselling and support in Queensland
Resources
- Be You External link—is a free, evidence-informed program providing educators with knowledge, tools and resource to promote mental health and wellbeing in learning communities across Australia.
- beyondblue External link—is working to reduce the impact of depression and anxiety in the community by raising awareness and understanding, empowering people to seek help, and supporting recovery, management and resilience.
- Lifeline External link—provides all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to online, phone and face-to-face crisis support and suicide prevention services, information, facts and resources.
- Raising Children's Network External link—provides free, up-to-date and independent articles, videos and interactive resources for parents and families on a wide range of topics including development, behaviour, play, school, mental health and media and technology.
- Black Dog Institute External link—is a medical research institute connected to UNSW investigating mental health across the lifespan. Resources are available for a range of mood disorders including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide.
- Child youth and mental health services External link—provides specialist mental health services for Queensland children and young people up to 18 years of age with severe or complex mental health problems.
- Australian Student Wellbeing Framework External link—the Student Wellbeing Hub External link, underpinned by the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework, helps to create learning communities that promote student wellbeing and the development of respectful relationships.