Youth Mental Health package: In schools

Schools provide an effective way to reach young people who may experience mental health problems. This is why we are better equipping schools to identify students with mental health issues sooner. We’re spending $18.6 million to put nurses into decile 3 secondary schools and specially trained youth workers in selected low decile secondary schools. We’ll also be asking schools to take more responsibility for the wellbeing of their students. We’ll be measuring how well schools are doing when it comes to student wellbeing and over time we expect them to be able to show decreases in things like bullying.

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