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Take a minute Youth

Mental Health Council of Tasmania

The Take a minute Youth Peer Wellbeing Program equips young Tasmanians with the tools to promote mental health and wellbeing within their communities.

  • Tas

Pricing: Free

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Tasmanian Government

Product type: Program; Posters; Fact sheets; Student activities; Activity sheets; Reference book; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool; External support services

Contact details

Mental Health Council of Tasmania
ABN: 50 451 756 970

https://takeaminute.com.au/youth/

hgodfrey@mhct.org

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

Prospective users

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

Context: School or centre-based

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

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff; Student, self-directed

Aims & approach

This is a positive, FREE program for young people in Tasmania. It gives young people the knowledge, skills and resources to engage their friends, family and community in understanding what positive mental health and wellbeing looks like and how to maintain it.

The Youth Peer Wellbeing Program has been developed as part of The Mental Health Council of Tasmania's (MHCT) Youth Mental Health Access Project, using the Take a minute campaign to provide peer-to-peer education on mental health and wellbeing awareness within the community.

Delivered through schools, Peer Leaders receive training to support their leadership journey. Training focuses on self care, boundaries and communication, enabling Peer Leaders to confidently engage in peer-to-peer wellbeing conversations.

Contact the project officer from the Southern Tasmania region or the North/North West Tasmania region to get involved.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

The Youth Peer Wellbeing Program is built from a Positive Psychology Framework using a Peer-to-Peer Model that is evidenced based and continually evaluated and informed by the researchers at Be Well Co (affiliated with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute; SAHMRI).

The positive impact of the original Take a minute Campaign can be found here.