Page 1882 - Week 05 - Thursday, 10 May 2018
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ACT Public Schools
ACT Public Schools provide support to children and young people to reduce barriers to their learning. At times these barriers may have their origins within the student’s family. Directorate staff will work with parents/carers to address issues that are impacting on the family’s functioning.
Network Student Engagement Teams (NSET):
NSET are multi-disciplinary teams working with the student, family and school to address the underlying issues that contribute to disengagement from learning. The NSET response is tailored to the needs of the individual student and family, and may include a social worker, senior psychologist, speech pathologist, occupational therapist, and specialist teachers in behaviour support, disability education or engagement.
The social worker’s role in NSET is to work with the student’s parent/carer to address issues that are having an impact on the student at home. This often takes the form of advocating for and/or supporting parents to connect with community or government agencies e.g. access to drug and alcohol counselling, addressing housing issues etc.
School Psychologists:
The role of the school psychologist forms an important part of the mental health approach in the school community by identifying and working with personal difficulties early in the life of the problem, responding to an immediate crisis, working with school staff to put in preventative strategies at the whole school level, working with the family and referring moderate to severe mental health issues to other specialists. School psychologists, like social workers, play a role in connecting parents/carers to community and government agencies to address specific issues e.g. family violence, sexual assault, respite support etc. School psychologist at times work with parents/careers in managing a child/young person’s behaviour at home.
School psychologists at times provide/organise parenting programs for parents.
Currently the school psychology service provides parent protective behaviours training (primary school) to help parents be aware of how they can talk with their child/young person about how to respond when they feel physically/sexually unsafe.
General supports:
Schools at times organise access to basic family needs e.g. food parcels, support the family to access transport and links to services
Schools alert relevant government agencies to family concerns that are having an impact on a student.
Information:
The Education Directorate provides information to parents on how they can support their child at school and what to do if they are concern about their child. When families and schools work together, children are more likely to build good
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