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Hints for Healing Season 4: Healthy Relationships – Episode 3: It’s Time We Talked About Pornography
This podcast focuses on helping parents and carers understand the potential impact of pornography on their children, and what can be done about it. Much of the content in this…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 4: Healthy Relationships – Episode 2: Sexual Consent and Consent Legislation
Parents and Carers often look for ways they can make their children’s lives safer while also supporting them to make choices that are both lawful and respectful. Often neglected, however,…
Working With Families
Hints for Healing Season 4: Healthy Relationships – Episode 3: It’s Time We Talked About Pornography
This podcast focuses on helping parents and carers understand the potential impact of pornography on their children, and what can be done about it. Much of the content in this…
Hints for Healing Podcast Season 4: Healthy Relationships – Episode 2: Sexual Consent and Consent Legislation
Parents and Carers often look for ways they can make their children’s lives safer while also supporting them to make choices that are both lawful and respectful. Often neglected, however,…
Anti-Racism
Harmony Week and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in NSW Schools
Image Source: DIAC Images Read our tip sheet on observing Harmony Week in a way that incorporates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
All One Under the Sun
All One Under the Sun ‘All One Under the Sun’ is a remedy to racism campaign for the whole community, driven by young people and using the arts to promote…
LGBTQIA+
Walk On Walk Strong
The STARTTS LGBTIQA+ project recognises the diversity of communities with diverse sexualities and genders with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. Our program provides peer-led support groups run by people with…
Disability and Refugee Experience
Hints for Healing Podcast S2, Ep 4 – Navigating Year 12 in 2021: Experiences of an Afghan Australian Woman
In this episode, 19 year-old Afghan-Australian, Farzana Nazari talks about her experiences of transitioning from her Intensive English Centre to mainstream high school. Farzana also discusses what gave her strength…
Hints for Healing Podcast S2, Ep3: Supporting the Recovery of Afghan Youth Through Online Platforms
In this episode, STARTTS Youth Program Team Leader, Lina Ishu discusses how she and her team used flexibility, creativity and consultation to adapt to the needs of Afghan Young People…
Self-Care
Vicarious Trauma and Resilience Part 6: Self Care and Seeking Support
Self-compassion is presented as a helpful foundational framework for nurturing good self-care. John Arden’s SEEDS model is then discussed in detail and recommended as a model for taking stock of…
Vicarious Trauma and Resilience Part 5: Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth
The positive transformations that can emerge out of empathic and professional engagement with survivors of traumatic events are discussed. The presenter highlights how greater awareness of post-traumatic growth and vicarious…
Supporting Afghan Students
Hints for Healing Podcast S2, Ep 4 – Navigating Year 12 in 2021: Experiences of an Afghan Australian Woman
In this episode, 19 year-old Afghan-Australian, Farzana Nazari talks about her experiences of transitioning from her Intensive English Centre to mainstream high school. Farzana also discusses what gave her strength…
Hints for Healing Podcast S2, Ep3: Supporting the Recovery of Afghan Youth Through Online Platforms
In this episode, STARTTS Youth Program Team Leader, Lina Ishu discusses how she and her team used flexibility, creativity and consultation to adapt to the needs of Afghan Young People…
