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Resources & Communities of Practice

Brain Development & Brain Health

The Brain Architecture Game

75–90-minute game, online or hard copy versions, $

Game to build understanding of brain development & how environments, experiences & genes shape development

Qld Dept of Ed: Ready Together – holistic child development

Online resource, free

For workers, parents/carers & community

Child milestones, brain development, integrates Indigenous knowledge, connection & culture and neuroscience

Headspace: Resources for Health professionals

Online information & resources, fact sheets for families, free

Research & information about common mental health issues in young people including clinical practice guidelines

Mental Health in Primary Schools (MHiPS)

Hybrid including Community of Practice, 2024-25 pilot schools in Queensland

Upskill teachers to become mental health & wellbeing leaders building whole school capacity

Australian Govt: Mental Health Professional Online Development Program

Various (100+ hours), online, free

For mental health & social services workforce, health professionals, family & friends

70+ topics: clinical assessment & interventions, working relationally with consumers & families, recovery-oriented practice, diversity, policies & legislation, therapeutic theory & practice

Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences

Evolve Therapeutic Services Nurturing Protective and Positive Childhood Experiences Framework and Resources

Free

For health workers

Understand & implement 5 core beliefs with young people to increase resilience and recovery

Trauma & Healing

Emerging Minds: Adverse Childhood Experiences toolkit

Range of resources, webinars, free

Australian Childhood Foundation: Trauma Professionals Online Learning Community

Community of Practice, $

Learning community for professionals seeking curated content on childhood trauma, neuroscience & healing

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (USA)

Webinars, e-learning courses, apps, fact sheets, resource guides & more, free

Range of resources on child trauma – search by resource, audience and trauma type

Resilience

Alberta Family Wellness Initiative: Resilience Resources

Videos, tools, reports, free

Brain story: brain architecture, stress, resilience, serve & return, air traffic control.

Resilience Scale & Framework: Applying the scale at individual, organisation & system level

The Whole Person

Australian Education Research Organisation:  Engaging with families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: ECEC practice guide

Free

For early childhood educators

Strategies for engaging with families from culturally diverse backgrounds

Wellmob: Healing our way

Online resources (apps, websites, audio, videos, documents, social media) free 

Social, emotional and cultural wellbeing resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

Topics: Mind, Body, Our Mob, Culture, Keeping Safe & Healing.

Children’s Health Queensland Project ECHO

94 online networks, free

Project ECHO® Networks connect professionals to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and enhance skills. Topics include Brain Builders and Child Development, Health & Wellbeing.

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute: Victorian Training Program in Community Child Health

1-year fellowship, in-person (Melbourne), $$

Clinical and theoretical training in developmental-behavioural paediatrics.

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