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SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY Schools Program

Relationships Australia, Tasmania

Stay ChatTY offers student, staff and parent sessions for a whole school community approach to mental health education and suicide prevention. Sessions are interactive and focus on developing help seeking strategies, referral pathways, self-regulation, and kindness.

  • Tas

Pricing: Free, Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: DECYP Tasmania funded; Suicide Prevention Australia accredited

Product type: Fact sheets; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker

Contact details

Relationships Australia, Tasmania
ABN: 88 890 705 424

https://staychatty.com.au/programs/schools-program/

staychatty@reltas.com.au

Focus areas

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Suicide and self-harm

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based

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

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

The Stay ChatTY Schools Program aims to deliver mental health education and reduce stigma associated with mental illness by delivering interactive, informative sessions to students, staff and parents across Tasmania. The program includes:

GritFit Kids: a 1-hour interactive session centred around mental wellbeing and resilience for Grade 6 students. Delivered by Stay ChatTY facilitators, this evidence informed, clinically endorsed program provides students with foundational information, tools and strategies across the following topics: mental health, how our brains work, and the importance of kindness.

GritFit: a 1.5-hour interactive workshop for up to 30 x Grade 9-12 students, delivered by Stay ChatTY facilitators to cover the following topics: mental health myths and facts, tools for grit and resilience, and the importance of kindness.

GritFit+: a free 1-hour professional learning session for all staff aimed at acknowledging the complexities of student wellbeing and the possible impacts on the caregiver.

The program also includes take-home merchandise, resources and tools promoting kindness and support options.

The program is free to eligible Tasmanian public schools, funded by the Tasmanian Government Department for Education, Children and Young People. For Catholic and Independent schools around Tasmania, there is a fee-for-service structure.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

Programs are developed using Positive Psychology methods and trauma-informed practices, and accredited by Suicide Prevention Australia.