Tier 1: School-wide mental health and wellbeing promotion

Universal interventions to help create a positive, inclusive, and supportive school climate.

In Tier 1, schools:

  • Support all students to build the social and emotional skills for lifelong mental health
  • Create a positive, inclusive, and supportive environment for optimal learning, development, and wellbeing
  • Select and implement whole-school supports and actions that promote staff mental health and wellbeing.

School's role in Tier 1 promoting mental health and wellbeing

Schools play an important role in promoting student mental health and wellbeing. Education protects and supports a person’s mental health across a lifetime.

Understanding mental health and wellbeing in a school setting

Mental health exists on a continuum. It is influenced by many environmental, emotional, biological and social factors and can change regularly.

Education

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