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Student wellbeing
Independent Schools Victoria supports Member Schools through the Victorian Government's Student Resiliency Program and the Independent Schools Victoria wellbeing network, ensuring that students develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will allow them to establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
In 2004, 84 independent schools received grants that contributed towards their resiliency projects. Most schools supplemented these grants enabling implementation of projects valued at $908,200.
Independent Schools Victoria provides targeted professional development so that schools can implement initiatives such as the National Safe Schools Framework (NSSF). The aim of NSSF is to create and maintain a safe supporting learning environment. NSSF encourages school communities to adopt practices that place a value on diversity that contributes to the safety and wellbeing of all.
The Victorian Government provides Independent Schools Victoria with $300,000 annually for student wellbeing-support projects aimed at preventing youth suicide.
Independent Schools Victoria supports and assists independent schools to:
- provide an education that reflects the diversity of Australian society
- support students to fully develop their abilities and talents and to take responsibility for their own lives
- take a leadership role in student wellbeing amongst the education community.
Independent Schools Victoria’s social justice unit assists schools to:
- provide an environment where students are free from the effects of negative discrimination based on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, race, religion, sex, physical disability and other factors that might be related to educational achievement
- strengthen student welfare and curriculum support in schools to maximise student access to teaching and learning and help them to develop into healthy, secure and resilient people
- achieve quality and equity of outcomes for all students
- improve the learning outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students through equitable access to, and opportunities in, schooling
- promote an understanding and appreciation of the value of cultural diversity among students
- develop in all students, a capacity to make rational and well informed decisions about their own lives.
It does this by:
- maximising opportunities for schools to form networks, coalitions and informal relationships
- providing professional learning opportunities for school staff
- promoting collaboration across the education community
- highlighting school initiatives and showcasing best practice
- disseminating information and resources
- providing high level representation and advocacy on behalf of schools
- providing policy support for schools
- allocating and administering funding to assist with the development, delivery and implementation of programs, resources and activities in independent schools
- collaborating with key individuals and groups within Independent Schools Victoria
- establishing and maintaining close working relationships with key government and non-government agencies and educational authorities.
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