School Wellbeing Leader Training

Program description

School Wellbeing Leader Training provides Wellbeing Leaders with training to undertake their role and drive a whole-of-school community approach to promoting wellbeing, so the work they lead is appropriately resourced and high quality.

The training aims to ensure all students will develop a sense of belonging in healthy, safe and supportive school communities. This works to maximise student wellbeing, attendance, educational, and life outcomes. The program also caters for marginalized students and students at risk of experiencing poorer mental health.

The program is delivered across 3 levels:

• Level 1: Essential Basic Training
• Level 2: Consolidating Practices Training
• Level 3: Sustaining Best Practices Training.

Intended outcomes

• Greater awareness of the importance of wellbeing in schools
• Increased understanding of the Wellbeing Leader role and the critical importance of distributing this leadership through a wellbeing team
• Greater wellbeing promotion across school communities
• Identification of local wellbeing needs, strengths and challenges
• Increased engagement with school leadership to ensure the Wellbeing arm of school improvement is well resourced

Program details

Implementation considerations

• Target population: Wellbeing Leaders in primary and secondary schools.
• Program adaptability: The program can be adapted, although participants would need to notify WISA of the school’s specific needs and discuss them prior to the program delivery. An example of an adaptation would be inviting an Aboriginal Elder or Koorie Education Officer to join the training.
• Staffing: Backfilling may be necessary, depending on the school and if the wellbeing leader has a teaching load. The Menu provider and its personnel must not be alone with any school student or group of school students in the classroom or in any other place at the school’s premises without another educator, teacher or teacher’s aide present at all times.
• Training requirements: A screen for showing the PowerPoint and film clips and a quiet space for participants to sit and participate in the training are required.
• Factors to consider: WISA provides 4 x one-hour check in sessions with participants at a 6 week, 3, 6, and 12-month time frame. It is ideal for more than one person per school to participate, as the cost remains the same for one person or a group of people, up to a maximum of 20 participants.
• Australian context: This program has been developed and applied in Australia.

Cost

Minimum cost

$1,000+

Detailed cost

School Wellbeing Leader Training is delivered in 3 levels, with no minimum and a maximum of 20 participants in each session. All sessions are delivered by one x facilitator and schools do not need to complete all levels. Program costs include electronic copies of training presentation and guidebook for each participant and a USB of resources and tools to guide practice.

• Level 1 Essential Basic Training: one x 6-hour training for group or individual wellbeing leaders: $1,815 including GST.
• Level 2 Consolidating Practices Training: one x 6-hour training for group or individual wellbeing leaders: $1,815 including GST.
• Level 3 Sustaining Best Practices Training: one x 6-hour training for group or individual wellbeing leaders: $1,815 including GST.
• Combination of levels 1, 2 and 3: $5,225 including GST.

Additional costs include:

• 4 x WISA implementation check-in (mentor) sessions for individual or groups at 6 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 months for up to one hour per session: $966 including GST
• travel for schools within metropolitan Melbourne: $66 flat rate
• travel for schools outside metropolitan Melbourne: $0.88 per km
• accommodation and meals for one x facilitator when school is more than 3 hours from Melbourne (WISA Wellbeing will negotiate a fair and reasonable discounted price if school is in a marginalised community): Calculated at ATO rate.