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Health Hub

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Who you will find at the Health Hub:

Guidance Officers

The service enables students to successfully balance an increasingly broad and challenging range of educational and developmental issues that face them in their progress through high school. These issues can include career goals, parent-adolescent relationships, grief and loss, peer relationships as well as mental health concerns.

Within the school the Guidance Officer works with other members of the Student Support team, administration and teaching staff for the benefit of the student.

Indigenous Support Officer

Support includes:
  • Attending classes
  • Assisting with assessments
  • Social emotional support
  • Indigenous program delivery
  • 1:1 support & cultural connection

Chaplain

Support includes:
  • Breakfast Club
  • Lunch time activities
  • Anime club
  • Program delivery
  • 1:1 support
  • Group intervention & social emotional support

School based Youth Health Nurse

The Youth Health Nurse can assist students in the following areas;
  • Healthy eating and physical activity
  • Feeling unhappy or stressed
  • Relationships
  • Sexual Health
  • Smoking, alcohol and other drugs
  • Personal and family problems
  • Growth and development

Health Hub Admin Officer

  • Student triage
  • ‘Chill out’ support & supervision
  • Monitor students Health Hub attendance
  • Liase with teachers to organise student work while in Health Hub

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​​​Health Hub Key Staff​ Contact


​Guidance Officer - 7 & 12 
Phillippa Proctor​
pjpro0@eq.edu.au
​Guidance Officer - 8 & 11 
​Vanessa Kennedy
vkenn2@eq.edu.au
​Guidance Officer - 9 & 10
​Chrystene Conder​
ccond24@eq.edu.au​
​Indigenous Support Officer
​Shannon Solomona

sroma29@eq.edu.au​



Programs on offer:

Chase the Sun

‘Chase the Sun’ program is a 10-week program aimed to help improve the lives of young people, providing them with a strong foundation of selfawareness, self-confidence, and mindfulness to assist empowerment both within schooling time + their future. The program combines Yoga Philosophy + Mindfulness tools in an approachable and enjoyable way, empowering their potential for pursuing their aspirations.

Transitions Program

Supporting students who are disengaging from OWSHS to transition to training; work; alternate education.

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Mission Australia

One on One Program for students at risk of homelessness. Support includes Housing, Centrelink set up including transport to appointments, advocacy, home mediation. Further assistance available depending on individual circumstances.

Deadly Choices

“We aim to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to make healthy choices for themselves and their families – to stop smoking, to eat good food and exercise daily. Deadly Choices also encourages our people to access their local Community Controlled Health Service and complete an annual ‘Health Check’. In Aboriginal slang, if something is ‘deadly’ it is great. As such a Deadly Choice is a good choice, and we encourage community to make such choices each day”.
https://deadlychoices.com.au

Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds

The program provides a structured, supportive, and inclusive environment where students participate in age-appropriate physical activity in the school gym, supported by a Personal Trainer and Health Hub staff. The activities are not only effective in improving mental health outcomes but also build self-esteem, social connection, resilience and mentoring skills. Physical exercise is a proven, evidence-based intervention that can play a key role in in enhancing mood, reduce stress, and improve emotional regulation.

Stepping up

Improve young male health and wellbeing. We work with groups of boys and young men to increase their resilience, empathy, and respect for self and others, and in doing so work to reduce the rates of suicides, mental health issues, antisocial and risk-taking behaviours. Our goal is to mentor and develop their critical-thinking and decision-making skills, as well as normalise a definition of masculinity beyond "strong" and "stoic" to improve young men's relationships with themselves and those around them.



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Access information and support about mental health and wellbeing.



YBB is all about getting across the message that it's ok to talk about depression and to encourage young people to get help when needed.
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Australia's only free, confidential and anonymous, 24 hour telephone and online counselling service for young people aged between 5 and 25.
A useful website providing online information about parents and parenting with a mental illness to support the wellbeing of children and young people.
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Web-based service that inspires young people to help themselves through tough times with online programs to improve mental health and wellbeing.
If students need help with mental health or wellbeing concerns, there are numerous resources on the OWSHS Health Hub Wellbeing Wall that students can access.
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Last reviewed 11 September 2026
Last updated 11 September 2026