- Tier: Tier 3: Targeted support
- Category of intervention: Additional mental health and wellbeing professionals
- Strength of evidence: Registered professional
- Geographic location: State-wide
Program description
Through its Enhancing Mental Health Support in Schools (EMHSS) partnership with the department, headspace provides telephone-based or face-to-face counselling for secondary school students experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns.
More information is available at Enhancing Mental Health Support in Schools.
Intended outcomes
Support students experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns.
Program details
| Target audience | Secondary school students |
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| Program provider | headspace |
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Implementation considerations
Factors to consider: Students must be identified as having a mild to moderate mental health difficulty. Face-to-face counselling is available to Victorian government schools that are within 80 km of a participating headspace centre. Phone counselling is generally for Victorian government schools who are located more than 50 km from a headspace centre.
Cost
- Item cost: Free
- Detailed cost: Free
How the Fund can be used
There is no approved expenditure of the Fund for this program, as students can be referred to headspace at no cost through the EMHSS partnership.
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