Schools and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Moving Beyond Either-or Service Delivery
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Conference Centre Room 2
| Monday, March 28, 2022 |
| 4:36 PM - 4:56 PM |
Overview
Ms Bonnie Stanton & Anna Bauer, QLD Children's Hospital School
Speaker
Miss Anna Bauer
Teacher
Queensland Children's Hospital School
Schools and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Moving Beyond Either-or Service Delivery
Abstract
Australian young people spend around 11,000 hours of their life at school. Often our young people’s most consistent support networks are in education settings. School attendance and engagement are considered protective factors for adolescents, which can enhance their resilience and wellbeing. As a Guidance Officer and Teacher at the Queensland Adolescent Extended Treatment Centre, Jacaranda Place, we spend our days supporting young people and their families to access their education, whilst actively advocating for the inclusion of young people in schools; and the prioritisation of education within mental health services.
In a fast-paced twenty-minute presentation, Bonnie and Anna will share how they build the capacity of schools and health teams to support young people’s journey through mental health services, and back into schools; whilst placing young people and families at the centre of the process. Participants will explore how young people’s engagement with school and education is an integral part of their recovery from mental health challenges.
Success stories will exemplify strategies and opportunities for adolescent mental health professionals to engage with schools, and for education professionals to engage with adolescent mental health services. Examples of practice will demonstrate how enhanced collaboration between services can better support young people’s recovery from mental health challenges. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the role education plays for young people’s recovery, enabling them to better respond to opportunities to enhance the collaboration between mental health services and schools.
The Queensland Children’s Hospital School provides continuity of education for all students receiving treatment for mental health challenges. Their campuses include, Jacaranda Place, Adolescent Extended Treatment Centre and Day Program which offers recovery orientated treatment of complex mental health challenges; and the Eating Disorder Day Program, which provides young people with recovery-based treatment for eating disorders. Both services are located in the Chermside area.
In a fast-paced twenty-minute presentation, Bonnie and Anna will share how they build the capacity of schools and health teams to support young people’s journey through mental health services, and back into schools; whilst placing young people and families at the centre of the process. Participants will explore how young people’s engagement with school and education is an integral part of their recovery from mental health challenges.
Success stories will exemplify strategies and opportunities for adolescent mental health professionals to engage with schools, and for education professionals to engage with adolescent mental health services. Examples of practice will demonstrate how enhanced collaboration between services can better support young people’s recovery from mental health challenges. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the role education plays for young people’s recovery, enabling them to better respond to opportunities to enhance the collaboration between mental health services and schools.
The Queensland Children’s Hospital School provides continuity of education for all students receiving treatment for mental health challenges. Their campuses include, Jacaranda Place, Adolescent Extended Treatment Centre and Day Program which offers recovery orientated treatment of complex mental health challenges; and the Eating Disorder Day Program, which provides young people with recovery-based treatment for eating disorders. Both services are located in the Chermside area.
Biography
Anna is an Experienced Senior Teacher at the Queensland Children’s Hospital School. For two decades she has devoted her career to students struggling to find their place in mainstream schooling: building trust and rapport to engage the disengaged in education.
For the last nine years, Anna has stood with students accessing education while receiving health treatments and is currently working with students, their families, schools and health teams at Brisbane's Eating Disorders Day Program.
Anna’s strengths are in student wellbeing and classroom management. She draws on her humour and creativity to build productive and safe learning environments that prioritise learning and student success. She is an avid Kmart enthusiast, wannabe writer and full-time lover of lifelong learning.
Ms Bonnie Stanton
Guidance Officer (mental Health)
QLD Children's Hospital School
Schools and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Moving Beyond Either-or Service Delivery
Abstract
Please see Anna Bauer
Biography
As a Guidance Officer (Mental Health) for Qld Children’s Hospital School, Bonnie Stanton is passionate about the role that education plays in young people’s recovery from mental health challenges. Putting her Masters with Distinction in Guidance and Counselling to good work, Bonnie case manages young people who are admitted to Jacaranda Place, the Eating Disorder Day Program and the RBH Adolescent Mental Health Unit. As an early school leaver herself, Bonnie is personally experienced in unconventional career pathways and has an indestructible sense of the power of education to bring about social justice and personal empowerment.
