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Mental Health Professionals' Network

Transition to School: How to Support Children and Families

An MHPN interdisciplinary panel, with Emerging Minds, on spotting developmental vulnerability as children start school and building a team around the child.

When

6 pm Brisbane · 6:30 pm Adelaide · 4 pm Perth · 1 hr 15 min

What you’ll learn

  • The AEDC definition of developmental vulnerability and its link to later mental health
  • Prevention and early intervention opportunities at the transition to school
  • Mapping the relationships, supports and systems around a child
  • Building and coordinating a team around the child

Speakers

Deborah Costa

Psychologist

Lauren Haskins

Speech Pathologist

Ly Tran

Lived Experience Lead

Vicki Mansfield

Senior Advisor, Practice Development

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Mental Health Professionals' Network

The Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN) supports psychologists, GPs, psychiatrists, mental health nurses, allied health workers and peer workers to collaborate across disciplines. Alongside hundreds of local practitioner networks, it runs evening webinars with interdisciplinary panels and lived experience experts, built around case discussion and Q&A, often with partners such as Emerging Minds. Recordings, transcripts and self-directed CPD forms are kept in its webinar library.

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