Student Support Services is a team who works together with students, parents and staff for the health and well-being of students, enabling them to have healthy, happy and productive lives. To this end, Mango Hill State Secondary College has established networks of support personnel who provide different levels of support for the individual needs of students. The Student Support Services staff are committed to helping students make the most of their experience at school.
The Student Support Services team can supports student in the following ways:
- Assist students with learning and study plans
- Help student to manage their behaviour
- Provide career education, guidance and planning
- Provide personal support
- Facilitate mediation
- Liaise with other support agencies and make referrals where applicable
Specialist support within the school exists in the form of:
Guidance Officer
The Guidance Officers provide information, on educational, personal and vocational issues. In addition to support and counselling the Guidance Officer also provides psycho educational assessment, feedback and recommendations to actively help students and their families or carers.
Supports Offered:
- Short term counselling
- Career counselling
- Social/emotional support
- Mental health assessments and referrals
- Psychoeducational assessments
- Subject selection support and advice
- Targeted individual and group work (e.g., anger management, resilience programs etc.)
- Referrals to external agencies
- Student protection matters
- University/TAFE information and advice
- School attendance advice and support
- Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments (AARA)
Students and parents can contact the Guidance Officers directly:
Katelyn Blake (Years 7, 9 & 11) and Glenn Collins (Years 8, 10 & 12) via email GuidanceOfficer@mangohillssc.eq.edu.au
School Based Youth Heath Nurse
The School Based Youth Health Nurse works collaboratively and in partnership with the school as part of the school support team to promote health and well-being for the young person and the whole school community.
The Youth Health Nurse provides a confidential, accessible, appropriate health service for students, teachers and parents. They may be referred as issues have been identified by HOD/Admin or self-refer re issues that impact their health and well-being i.e. relationships, feeling unhappy or stressed, healthy skin, sexual health, personal and family conflict, smoking and alcohol problems, growth and development and mental health.
The School Based Youth Health Nurse is based at the College on Monday and Thursday.
Supports Offered:
- Health promotion and education
- Individual and group support
- General health information
- Referrals to external agencies
- Mental health concerns
- Healthy lifestyles
- Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs
- Sexual health
- Puberty
- Social/emotional concerns
School Wellbeing Professional - Social Worker
Katy Burgess-Russo is the College based Social Worker on Monday, Tuesday and Friday.
Supports Offered:
- Direct support to students and or families.
- Long-term counselling utilising focused psychological strategies.
- Group work
- Working closely with the referring team and providing feedback and value adding to the student's mental health needs and learning engagement.
- Referrals to external agencies
- Complex case management