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Emerging Minds welcomes National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health funding extension
The Australian Government has today announced a $110 million funding package focussed on identifying and preventing mental health problems in children and young people. This package includes a further $16 million for the Emerging Minds’ led National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, a collaboration between Emerging Minds and the… -
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Happy holidays from Emerging Minds!
Our whole team would like to say a huge thank you for your support this year, especially during the launch of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. We wish you a very happy and safe festive season. Our office will take a short break from Friday 22 December… -
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Story creation workshop
Last week in Melbourne, nine talented actors and five Emerging Minds project officers and managers came together under the directorship of Melbourne theatre professional, Melinda Hetzel, to run a two-day intensive story creation workshop. This story-devising workshop was convened by Artist Made Productions with the aim of drawing on the… -
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STOP Domestic Violence Conference
Earlier this month we attended the STOP Domestic Violence conference in Melbourne. It was a comprehensive and thought-provoking few days covering everything from working with the media to improve the reporting on news of women and their children’s experiences of family violence, through to how services can better work together… -
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Supporting Infant and Toddlers online course
Supporting Infants and Toddlers is a one to two hour online course aimed at professionals working with parents who experience mental illness and have dependent infants or very young children. The course covers: the impact of mental illness on the family throughout the antenatal period. attachment, infant and toddler development. principles… -
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The National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health is live!
We are very happy to announce the launch of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health today. This exciting project is led by Emerging Minds and delivered in partnership with the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), the Australian National University (ANU), the Parenting Research Centre (PRC) and the… -
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Updated course – Let’s Talk About Children
We are excited to let you know about several updates to the popular Let’s Talk About Children course. What’s new? The structure of Let’s Talk has been streamlined, so that there is a separate module dedicated to each stage of the course: – Introducing the Let’s Talk Approach – The… -
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New online course! Child Mental Health
This brand new course aims to build your understanding and capacity to identify children vulnerable to mental health difficulties. You can then reflect on how you and your organisation can better support parents and families with a view to improving the mental health outcomes of infants and children. The course… -
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Updated course – Family Talk (previously Family Focus)
The Family Talk (previously Family Focus) course has been updated as part of the transition to the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. What’s new? The course name has been changed for consistency with the name given to this intervention by its developer, Professor William Beardslee in the USA.… -
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New online course! Trauma and the Child
This brand new course will introduce you to the impacts that experiences of trauma and adversity can have on a child, their family and even their whole community. It covers the prevalence of trauma and adversity in our communities, and the impacts these experiences can have on the whole child;… -
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Important information for COPMI eLearning users
Given all of COPMI’s online training will be transitioning to the National Workforce Centre, we have taken the opportunity to update the Let’s Talk and Family Focus (which will be renamed to Family Talk) courses. The new updates will go live in November but regrettably, we are unable to transfer… -
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National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health to launch this November
After 15 years of delivering the Children of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) national initiative, earlier this year our team at Emerging Minds received the exciting news that the Australian Government had funded us to lead the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. This innovative project sees our…