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Supporting and Maintaining a Safe Work Environment for Multicultural School Staff
Multilingual School Staff enrich our school communities with their language skills, cultural knowledge and a strong desire to support student learning and wellbeing. The STARTTS School Liaison Team has produced…
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…
Supporting Students with Refugee Experience During an International Crisis
By STARTTS Image adapted from original work by Zainab Mujtaba
STARTTS Regional School Holiday Breaks Program
The STARTTS school holiday break program is funded through the Office for Regional Youth to provide young people across NSW from a refugee background, with access to free opportunities to…
Refer a Student for Counselling
A core aspect of STARTTS’ approach to assisting children and young people to overcome the impact of trauma is through providing counselling and psychotherapy. This is provided at STARTTS offices…
STARTTS Services for Children and Young People
STARTTS provides a broad range of services for children and young people. We employ specialist youth workers and child and adolescent counsellors to work with this age group. They also…
Neurofeedback at Schools: Exercise for the Brain
What is Neurofeedback? Neurofeedback is a type of treatment that provides the person with specific information about their own brain activity. When information about brainwave patterns is provided, the person…
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…
Supporting 74 Ezidi Genocide Commemoration (Also known as Roja Resh or Black day), 3rd of August
By Rachelle Coe & Nicole Loehr
Supporting Students with Sudanese Heritage during the 2023 Conflict in Sudan
WARNING: This document contains distressing details about the conflict in Sudan. 11 May 2023
Підтримка дітей та підлітків, які постраждали внаслідок війни в Україні (Ukrainian) Supporting Children and Adolescents Affected by the War in Ukraine
By STARTTS – Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors
Supporting Children and Adolescents Affected by the War in Ukraine
By STARTTS - Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors
BRIEFING SHEET FOR EDUCATORS IN NSW: Supporting Students Affected by the War in Ukraine
By The School Liaison Team, STARTTS 1 March 2022
Displaced families (TPV Holders) with children with disabilities in Australia
By Melika Taheri, Shaun Nemorin and Rachelle Coe, Feb 2022
Supporting Student Wellbeing during COVID-19 Restrictions and Remote-learning – Deb’s Digest Term 4, 2021
By Deb Gould Image credit: HaticeEROL, Pixabay “I can’t do this anymore”, “Nothing I do makes any difference”. By the time this edition comes out, NSW students will have been learning…
Briefing Sheet for Educators in NSW: Supporting Students and Families with Links to Afghanistan during NSW COVID-19 Restrictions
Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces intensified since May 2021 in response to the gradual withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan. On 15 August 2021, the Taliban captured…
Cultivating Connection and Trust in Counselling, with Deb Banks
By Maeve Galea Image source: Piqsels Deb Banks' knows that trust can (and should be) hard-won, 'I will tell kids in their first session, "I'm just going to ask you a few…
Building Community at School, with School Liaison Officer Maria Ha
By Maeve Galea It’s widely accepted that schools can play an instrumental role in supporting the recovery of children with refugee experience (Kia-Keating & Ellis, 2007; Matthews, 2008; Correa-Velez et…
We Need to Talk about Devices – Deb’s Digest Term 3, 2021
By Deb Gould Image source: pxfuel Initially, Nicole and I had flagged ‘gaming’ as this term’s topic. But, with the average gamer being 34 (Brand et al., 2019), this doesn’t really cover the concern that many of…
Culturally and Therapeutically Savvy Engagement with Learners and their Families with Refugee Experience
By Rafik Tanious, School Liaison Counsellor/Project Officer Rural and Regional NSW, STARTTS Image credit: Steve Snodgrass 16 October 2020 How do we make education engage with the life-worlds of learners…
Nercy Clarke on Supporting Students through Grief and Growth
By Maeve Galea Image Source: Sarah Horrigan, flikr ‘For young people with a refugee background, grief experiences could vary from having lost a close family member to grieving the loss…
Suspensions and Expulsions in NSW Schools – Deb’s Digest Term 2, 2021
By Deb Gould Image credit: Abhinav Thakur (CCO) This is not a hints and tips piece; very far from it. Hopefully, it will stimulate reflection on the fact that 32,300…
Services to Learners with Refugee Experience during COVID19
There are a number of factors that educators might need to be aware of in the current COVID19 climate that have the potential of adversely impacting on learners with refugee…
Supporting Students in the Wake of the Beirut Explosion
The horrific explosion that ripped through Beirut, Lebanon on 4 August came on the back of a crippling economic crisis which has decimated people’s life savings, rising COVID-19 infections, food…
