Be You is Australia’s national mental health and wellbeing in education initiative, partnering with learning communities to create environments where every child and educator can thrive. Be You is based on a whole learning community approach and can support early learning services to make meaningful, sustainable and positive change for mental health and wellbeing.

Be You offers free, flexible, evidence-based professional learning, tools and expert consultant guidance, tailored to each learning community and adaptable to individual settings and goals.

Guided by the needs of the learning community, Be You Consultants can help learning communities to develop and implement a mental health and wellbeing plan that benefit the whole learning community, including children, families and educators.

For more information visit the Be You website https://beyou.edu.au/

Expected outcomes are

• Improved educator capacity, skills, knowledge and confidence to support mental health and wellbeing.
• Improved relationships between educators, children and families.
• Improved planning to address identified mental health and wellbeing needs.
• Increased knowledge of how to plan for and sustain change over time.
• Increased alignment and capacity to meet Quality Areas 5 and 6 of the National Quality Framework.

Be You is delivered online through a flexible model that combines professional learning, practical tools and resources, and ongoing implementation support provided through a Be You Consultant.

Be You is designed to be responsive to the context of each service as well as their strengths and needs, therefore the degree of time commitment is unique to each service.

Be You uses video calls, email and phone. Be You Consultants support early learning services individually and/or together in groups of services. Participating Be You services are allocated a primary Be You Consultant however they can also access a team of Consultants to support implementation, and turn learning into action.

Professional learning and capacity building for educators is supported through online learning modules, live and recorded Be You In-Focus and In-Practice webinars, fact sheets and evidence based resources.

Opportunities to connect with other services and educators are available through online interactive sessions and events.

Services can plan for the time commitments required to develop and implement their mental health and wellbeing plans with support from their Be You Consultant. Services can also factor in time for staff to engage in Be You offerings, such as the professional learning modules and interactive sessions.

There is no cost. Be You is funded by the Commonwealth government and available to all learning communities across Australia at no cost.

Note: Learning communities can use the portion of their funding reserved for backfill and administration to develop and implement their mental health and wellbeing plans, and engage in Be You offerings such as professional learning modules and live webinars.