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SCHN MHID Hub

Click here to find out about the MHID Hub including forms.

Click here to find out about upcoming hub webinars or to access the recordings.

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Latest Journal

Click here for a copy of our latest Journal Edition. Volume 14, Issue 1, 2024.

 

School-Link E-list

Join our free e-list here to receive resources, primarily the CHW School-Link Journal, and from time to time other relevant material concerning the mental health of children and adolescents with an intellectual or developmental disability.

CHW School-Link Brochure

Download our latest CHW School-Link service brochure here: 

Guidelines on Pathways to Care

A guide for parents and carers: Guidelines on Pathways to Care for children and adolescents with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour and/or mental health problems.  

Excutive Summary

View the executive summary of the "Leading the Way in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability" needs analysis report here.

   

Behaviour Support in Schools

View the 2017 Obudsman Inquiry into behaviour management in schools. This report focuses on issues concerning students with complex needs and challenging behaviour. The report discusses the difficult challenges that schools face, but also draws attention to reasonable steps that can and should be taken to meet the learning and support needs of students, within a framework of best practice and evidence-based behaviour support.

 

 

About Us 

The NSW School-Link Initiative has been addressing mental health in schools since 1999. The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) has recognised the potential to further develop the existing School-Link Initiative by focusing on students with an intellectual disability.

In 2009, the CHW School-Link Project, in partnership with the Department of Education and MH-CYP scoped the professional needs of school counsellors of students with an intellectual disability in NSW government Schools for Specific Purposes in the following three areas:

 

 

1) Assisting in the pathways to care for students with mental health problems and disorders.

2) Supporting the implementation of school based mental health promotion, prevention programs, and early intervention programs.

3) The training and education needs of school counsellors.

 

 

The result of the scoping project was funding from the Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Office (MHDAO) for a four year CHW School-Link Initiative that we will proudly implement with our partners at MH-CYP, The NSW Department of Education and the previous Ageing Disability and Home Care, Department of Human Services NSW (ADHC).