Health & Wellbeing
Health and Wellbeing Resources
PASS Project WaSH-W
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Wellbeing: designing solutions in the time of COVID-19
This project used design thinking principles to help create local solutions around clean water, sanitation, hygiene and wellbeing. This is a key area of learning during COVID-19, but also relates to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation and Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. This project also aimed to build and deepen students' STEM skills.
This program was intended for participants to enact their solutions on their communities to improve aspects of water, sanitation, hygiene and wellbeing.
PASS Mental Health and Wellbeing Resources from Australian Participants
View full list of Health and Wellbeing resources here
In this Google Drive folder, you will find resources shared by PASS Australian educators, including:
a peer support program presentation used for developing connection between younger students and older students within the school.
SAFEMinds: These five resources are part of SAFEMinds program that is used in many parts of Australia to help teachers notice, inquire and respond to changes in behaviour that be may be as a result of mental health changes. These are normally rolled out with training but are very comprehensive and aspects could be used with research. Further information and more resources are available at the Safe minds website (which is accessible to everyone) and these should be discussed at a school and system level.
a Student Representative Council Framework to support student voice and agency. It provides a framework to set up a Student Representative Council and examples of activities they can undertake in the name of student leadership.
These resources were shared by PASS Australian educators, Nick Jack at O'Loughlin College, Sharon Davis at Hurlstone Agricultural High School and Brett Clements at Cherrybrook Technology High School.
PASS Tokstori bilong COVID-19
A Creative Response to COVID-19
Share a short creative response to the question: "How have you and/or your community reacted positively in the time of COVID-19?"
Submissions can be:
a piece of art
a piece of writing (poetry, short story, interviews)
a song (this might be a choral song, a cover of a song or an original)
a video (this could be a documentary style or artistic response. Your video must be no longer than 3 minutes)
Wellbeing Activities and Conversation Starters
Wellbeing activities and conversation starters for parents of secondary school-aged children.
Wellbeing Interactive Activities
What is wellbeing in a school?
Well-being is a broad concept and covers a range of psychological and physical abilities. Schools play an important role in promoting student mental health, and physical and emotional well-being. They can provide a feeling of belonging, a sense of purpose, achievement and success. Education protects and supports a person’s well-being across a lifetime.
Learn more about how schools can cultivate well-being for individuals and communities by accessing a range of research and resources, including:
A positive education podcast by Geelong Grammar’s Institute of Positive Education Centre
A University of Melbourne Pursuit article that explores how social and emotional learning can help school students cope
Evidence for Learning summaries of educational research to guide teachers and senior leaders on how to use resources to improve learning outcomes.
Also, Headspace is a National Youth Mental Health Foundation. They began in 2006, and ever since they've provided early intervention mental health services to 12-25-year-olds. They support young people with mental health, physical health, alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support.
See the Headspace website for a range of interactive activities to support your well-being, navigate life, alcohol, and work and study.
WHO Health for All Film Festival
Be inspired! See what student reporters can do - World Health Organisation Health for All Film Festival
The World Health Organisation (WHO) invited filmmakers, communities and students from around the world to submit original short films on health promotion. The festival aimed to recruit a new generation of film and video innovators to champion and promote global health issues.
The 2020/21/22 film festivals attracted 3,475 short film submissions from 110 countries. See films and award winners here.
Short films were categorised under one of three descriptions, which relate to WHO's global health goals:
Universal health coverage (UHC) – films about mental health, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and other UHC stories linked to communicable diseases not part of emergencies;
Health emergencies – films about health emergencies, for example COVID-19, Ebola, disaster relief and health in war-zones;
Better health and well-being – films about environmental and social determinants of health, such as nutrition, sanitation, pollution, gender, and/or about health promotion or health education.
This resource can inspire a collaborative idea in your school, district, province or across the country. Making a health promotion film supports student agency, collaboration, communication, media literacy, global awareness and STEM education including health sciences and science communication.
Keep an eye out for the next Health for All Film Festival competition round to submit your own short film!