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Aromatherapy for Educators

Aromatherapy for EducatorsEssential oils for stress relief and better sleep By Thuy Tran and Nicole Loehr Teaching and supporting students has always been a demanding occupation. The profession necessitates responding to students’ varied educational, social and emotional needs, managing high workloads and often not receiving remuneration and community recognition commensurate with such a highly skilled…

BRIEFING SHEET FOR EDUCATORS IN NSW: Supporting Students with Links to Ukraine and Russia

BRIEFING SHEET FOR EDUCATORS IN NSWSupporting Students with Links to Ukraine and Russia By The School Liaison Team, STARTTS 1 March 2022 Background In the early hours of Thursday 24 February 2022, Russian military forces invaded Ukraine. Since then, there have been missile strikes across the country, including residential areas of Kharkiv (Ukraine’s second biggest…

Displaced families (TPV Holders) with children with disabilities in Australia

Displaced families (TPV Holders) with children with disabilities in Australia By Melika Taheri, Shaun Nemorin and Rachelle Coe, Feb 2022 Image credit: Pablo Stanley Background Forced displacement is not a simple process. The United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (2022) reported that global forced displacement recently surpassed 84 million, with individuals compelled to leave their…

Attachment Fundamentals: Why Separation from Friends and Family Matters

Attachment Fundamentals: Why Separation from Friends and Family Matters By Deb Gould Illustration by Irene Falgueras Let’s start by stating the obvious: COVID lockdowns prevented most of us from being with loved ones – from them being just outside our bubbles to way overseas, we were left phoning, zooming or writing in order to stay…

Supporting Student Wellbeing during COVID-19 Restrictions and Remote-learning – Deb’s Digest Term 4, 2021

Supporting Student Wellbeing during COVID-19 Restrictions and Remote-learning 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 from home for about 10 weeks and probably have another 5 weeks to go. We all have had to adjust expectations…

Briefing Sheet for Educators in NSW: Supporting Students and Families with Links to Afghanistan during NSW COVID-19 Restrictions

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 the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. Afghanistan is…

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 general questions, give me the information that you feel comfortable with, but I’m not going to tell you to trust me today because you’d be…

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 al., 2010; Tozer at al, 2018). But did you know that the community atmosphere of a school could also be a healing space for their…

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 us have about young people in the online world. And, let’s be real, the humble phone is where most of us play: games that are small bites but…

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 and families with refugee experience? One of the primary challenges of our educational systems is related to how we can best connect schools with the…