Brain Healthy Schools
TKBBI has recently secured funding from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation to support the Brain Health in Queensland Schools (BHiQS) Initiative. This initiative has a focus on schools as critical sites to optimise brain development and promote mental health among school-aged children and adolescents.
The Brain Healthy Schools Project (BHSP). BHSP responds to high interest from across the system to examine opportunities for embedding understanding of, and supports for, Brain Health within primary and secondary schools in Queensland.
The Brain Healthy Schools Project aims to scope, co-design, and deliver a Brain Health focused workforce development package for primary and secondary school staff tailored to their specific contexts.
Brain Healthy Schools objectives:
- Support the integration of neuro-informed strategies into school teaching practices.
- Co-design a workforce capability development package for Queensland school staff.
- Pilot and evaluate professional learning episodes within Queensland school settings.
- Share insights and practices that strengthen inclusive, neuro-informed education in Queensland.
The workforce development package will build the education workforce’s neuro-informed capability and leverages from the significant momentum, learnings, partnerships, and opportunities emerging as part of TKBBI in Queensland to build a common language across professions to support healthy child development and future mental health. This project is committed to ensuring that genuine workforce development needs are met and that, where available and appropriate, existing practices and resources are recognised, integrated, and amplified.
Project Leads
- Dr. Shaun Kanowski, BHSP Co-design Teacher Capability
- Dr. Veronica Graham, BHSP Evidence Hub