Picnic Point High School's home of wellbeing
Picnic Point High School; a place where students, staff and families belong. A place where individual authenticity and uniqueness is celebrated.
The Wellbeing hub is the home of all things wellbeing. Please refer to the table of contents to seek the relevant information and help if you need it.
External Support Services and Information
"We're there for whatever life throws at them"
Our trusted self-help information, peer-support program and referral tools save lives by helping young people be well and stay well. Everything we create is based on the latest evidence and is designed with experts, and young people or their parents. This is why our service is trusted, relevant and so easy to use. Accessed by more than 2 million people in Australia each year, ReachOut is a free service that’s available anytime and pretty much anywhere.
"Support. Advice. Action"
Beyond Blue works with the community to improve mental health and prevent suicide.Through our Beyond 2020 Strategy, we are working across three strategic priorities:
Mental health and wellbeing promotion so people have greater knowledge, feel safe to talk openly about their issues and are supported to ask for help when they need to.
Being a trusted source of information, advice and support so we can take the first step to seek help
Working together to prevent suicide by playing a lead role in the national effort to prevent suicide through research, information, advice and support, and advocacy.
"We aim to meet the evolving needs of young people"
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
"Spread the importance of being kind to each other, ourselves and the world"
Head to Health can help you find digital mental health services from some of Australia’s most trusted mental health organisations.
Provided by the Australian Department of Health, Head to Health brings together apps, online programs, online forums, and phone services, as well as a range of digital information resources.
Whether you are trying to improve your own sense of wellbeing, looking for help with something that is bothering you, or helping someone you care about—Head to Health is a good place to start.
"Science. Compassion. Action"
As the only medical research institute in Australia to investigate mental health across the lifespan, our aim is to create a mentally healthier world for everyone.
We do this through ‘translational’ research. Integrating our research studies, education programs, digital tools and apps, clinical services, and public resources to discover new solutions, foster connections and create real-world change.
Our partnerships with people with lived experience, federal, state and local governments, communities, schools, corporate Australia and others in the mental health sector enables us to drive evidence-informed change in mental health where it’s needed most.