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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.

Student Support Officer

The Student Support Officer can assist students in the following areas;
  • Relationships
  • Stress
  • Promoting well-being and coping strategies
  • Building resilience and positive wellbeing through workshops and programs
  • Resources and other support service referrals

    • 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

    • Psychologist

    This service enables students to access up to 10, weekly or fortnightly psychological intervention sessions at school. Presentations may include various anxieties; mild to moderate trauma; panic disorders; low mood and depression; stress management; resilience; self-esteem and confidence.
    *This support can be accessed through the Guidance Officers.

    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 Teacher Aide Support

    Support includes:
  • Attending classes
  • Assisting with assessments
  • Social emotional support
  • Program delivery
  • 1:1 and group contact

    • 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 Staff​ Contact​


    ​Guidance Officer - 8, 10, 11 
    		​Alan Fraser
    		​afras43@eq.edu.au
    ​Guidance Officer - 7, 9, 12 
    		​Phillippa Proctor
    		​pjpro0@eq.edu.au
    ​Student Support Officer
    		Simon Pyle
    		​spyle0@eq.edu.au​​
    ​Indigenous Support Officer
    		​Shannon Solomona

    sroma29@eq.edu.au​

    ​​Health Hub Teacher Aide Support​​
    		​Evan Da Costa
    		​edaco4@eq.edu.au
    ​Health Hub Admin Officer
    		​Sally Young 
    		​syoun272@eq.edu.au
    Chaplain
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    ​Psychologist
    		​Morgan Buzzell
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    ​​School Based Youth Health Nurse
    		​Rad Pamiloza

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    ​Mission Australia - Youth Worker
    		​Nat
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    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

    Chic

    CHIC is a workshop designed for young women between the ages of 11 and 15. It uses various fun, challenging activities and related discussion where participants explore issues including identity, self-worth, respect for others, relationships, bullying, social justice and conflict resolution. The sessions are interactive, and groups will be small (6-10 participants), to give the students an opportunity to explore these issues among peers, in a challenging but informal environment.

    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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    Headspace

    Access information and support about mental health and wellbeing.



    Youth Beyond Blue

    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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    Kids Helpline

    Australia's only free, confidential and anonymous, 24 hour telephone and online counselling service for young people aged between 5 and 25.

    Emerging Minds

    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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    Reach Out!

    Web-based service that inspires young people to help themselves through tough times with online programs to improve mental health and wellbeing.

    Wellbeing Wall

    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 07 November 2024
    Last updated 07 November 2024