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My Mind Check

My Mind Check

My Mind Check is a free, evidence-based digital tool for schools that offers early insights into student mental health and wellbeing across all year levels, supporting schools with simple and practical follow-up guidance and resources.

  • Online

Pricing: Free

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Department of Education; Macquarie University

Product type: Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool

Contact details

My Mind Check
ABN: 90 952 801 237

https://mymindcheck.org.au/

info@mymindcheck.org.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Self-esteem and body image

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Student, self-directed

Aims & approach

My Mind Check enables schools to proactively gather insights into the mental health and wellbeing of individual students, year levels, and the whole student population through supervised check-in sessions conducted at school.

Schools register to access their My Mind Check dashboard. Sessions are managed by the school and take 10-15 minutes, where students are invited to answer multiple-choice questions on a computer or tablet.

Following check-ins, My Mind Check provides schools with instant outcomes and practical, easy-to-implement follow-up resources, responsive to the needs and demands of school settings. The key objective in follow-up after check-ins is to communicate outcomes to students and caregivers and share curated information and resources.

Ongoing guidance and support with simple guides for every step are built in to help school staff, including for those with limited experience or expertise in the mental health and wellbeing space, and a dedicated School Support Team to assist when needed. For schools looking to explore additional follow-up options, recommendations of suitable in-school programs are available, along with resources to support further communication and goal-setting with students and caregivers.

Implementation support

  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
  • Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice

Evidence

My Mind Check was developed as an Australian Government initiative and delivered by childhood mental health experts. It addresses the importance of universal mental health screening and early identification. Developed from leading research into childhood and adolescent mental health, the check-in questions align with the typical developmental stage for each year level and cover topics that most commonly affect the mental health of young people in Australia.

The benefits of the check-in and follow-up guidance have been evaluated directly via randomised trials showing improvements in student mental health and reduction in school absences. 

  • Rapee, R. M., Kuhnert, R.-L., Bowsher, I., Burns, J. R., Coen, J., Dixon, J., Kotselas, P., Lourey, C., McLellan, L. F., Mihalopoulos, C., Peters, L., Prendergast, T., Roos, T., Thomas, D., & Wuthrich, V. M. (2025). A cluster randomized trial of the impact of school-based, universal, mental health screening and feedback on students' mental health and help-seeking. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2025.01.032
  • Rapee, R. M., Kuhnert, R., Spence, S. H., Bowsher, I., Burns, J., Coen, J., Dixon, J., Kotselas, P., Lourey, C., McLellan, L. F., Mihalopoulos, C., Peters, L., Prendergast, T., Roos, T., Thomas, D., & Wuthrich, V. (2024). The Brief Evaluation of Adolescents and Children Online (BEACON): psychometric development of a mental health screening measure for school students. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 80(6), 1420-1447. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23673