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Mental Illness Education ACT (MIEACT)

Mental Illness Education ACT Inc (MIEACT)

Mental Illness Education ACT (MIEACT) provides evidence-informed mental health promotion programs for students in ACT schools.

  • ACT

Pricing: Free

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Australian Service Excellence Standards ASES

Product type: Program

Contact details

Mental Illness Education ACT Inc (MIEACT)
ABN: 54 121 600 383

https://mieact.org.au/programs-youth/

admin@mieact.org.au

Focus areas

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Humanities and Social Science

Prospective users

Audience: Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Year 3, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

The MIEACT programs for students in ACT schools include powerful lived experience stories guided by our DoNOHarm Framework 2011, a best practice approach to communicating about mental health issues. There are 6 programs.

  • Thriving Minds Empowering Futures: Opens conversations on emotions, builds mental health literacy, belonging, and help-seeking strategies.
  • Stress and Me: Years 5-6. Develops understanding of how stress affects the body and daily life.
  • Mental Health and Me: Years 7-8: Reduces stigma, promotes help-seeking, and introduces mental illness and its symptoms.
  • Know Stress: Years 7-9. Increases understanding of stress and effective coping strategies.
  • Stress Better: Years 10-12. Explores stress science, its benefits, and strategies for managing unhealthy stress.
  • Mental Health 201: Years 10-12. Addresses stigma and encourages help-seeking through age-appropriate lived experience stories.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

Mental Health 201 is informed by Contact Hypothesis and Social Contact Approach as well as Mindfulness and Positive Psychology.

Thriving Minds is guided by CASTEL SEL Framework, Mindfulness and Positive Psychology and Shared Story Book Reading.

Stress Better, Stress and Me and Know Stress use empirically supported High Impact Teaching Strategies, Mindfulness and positive psychology and Cooperative Learning.

Mental Health and Me is informed by Child Focused MHL Model, Contact Hypothesis and Social Contact Approach, Mindfulness/Positive Psychology, High Impact Teaching Strategies.