 The Wellbeing Hub is a school based model which offers broad access to immediate and ongoing
psychosocial assessment and intervention for children and their families. It
has a flexible framework that ensures individuals within school communities who
are experiencing issues impacting upon their emotional, psychological,
educational or physical welfare, receive early intervention and support. The Wellbeing Hub model provides professionally supervised social work
students placement in a school setting. Each school utilises a minimum of two
students during their placement period. A minimum of two students enable the
students to support each other during their placement and meet the needs of the
school in a more comprehensive manner. Supervision and immediate support of
students is conducted by the ‘Wellbeing Co-ordinator’ who is employed by NACYS. The
Co-ordinator is a highly skilled, tertiary trained professional who has many
years of experience in working with young people and their families. The Wellbeing co-coordinator works individually with each student and funding for the
co-ordinator is provided by the schools involved in the model. Funding is
reviewed annually and the level of contribution is negotiated in a
collaborative process between the school and NACYS. The student’s relevant
University provides external supervision and placement review. Students are
additionally supported in the school environment by a key staff member
nominated by the school to assist with the model. Students remain on placement
for 500 hours, which equates to approximately 17 weeks. Young people in the
individual school communities are referred to the Wellbeing Hub by school staff. Social work students provide broad
psychosocial support that encapsulates general therapeutic work/counselling and
case work. Work with students and families occurs on an individual or group
work basis and is conducted onsite at the relevant school. For more inofrmation; Phone; 8252 2474 Email; nacys@nacys.asn.au |
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