Intuitive, simple and easy to use
My Mind Check gives schools proactive information about students, direct from students. The tool assists schools to understand their students and use quality, evidence-based data to make wellbeing decisions. My Mind Check enables schools to flexibly undertake check-ins with guidance and resources to support follow-up.
Register your interest to join a personal planning session with our school support team. Our team will guide you through the planning and implementation of My Mind Check in the context of your school environment.
Through the My Mind Check portal, and with the support of how-to guides, conduct supervised check-ins during school hours with your students.
Review instant outcomes for individual students and cohorts, share information including online resources and consider optional in-school support.
Now what?
My Mind Check provides suggestions on how to effectively communicate and guide students and their caregivers after a check-in. We understand that there is limited time available during a busy school term but also a desire to understand and support student wellbeing. My Mind Check provides schools with how-to guides, templates, and resources on our website and within the school portal.
The check-in provides an opportunity to understand how a student feels they are going with their mental health and wellbeing. It also allows you to share information that might help caregivers to understand and support their child better.
Supporting youth mental health
You can find fact sheets, programs and resources to support your student’s specific mental health concerns below.
If you would like more information, you can also visit Kids Helpline and Head to Health.
A number of free and confidential phone and online mental health support services are also available for young Australians. Visit Need support now.
My Mind Check has applied stringent guidelines when selecting programs and resources, and sourced factsheets from reputable Australian government supported organisations. We have carefully selected resources to enhance student support and information access within your school.
Anxiety is an emotion. It can also be described as worry, feeling tense or feeling afraid of certain situations or objects even trying to avoid them. Anxiety may significantly affect a student’s life, impacting their ability to learn and engage in the classroom, and affect their relationships with family, friends and school staff.
Attention relates to how students focus on day-to-day, ordinary tasks, their ability to concentrate on a task without being distracted, effectively switch attention between tasks and their ability to sustain their attention. It can also relate to their activity levels during tasks.
Students can often have brief periods of feeling sad and down resulting from various life events and challenges. Feeling down, irritable and being withdrawn for longer periods of time, and losing interest in their appearance and usual enjoyable activities could signify a longer-term problem with mood.
Body image and eating difficulties can impact physical health, growth and development, emotional wellbeing and overall quality of life. It is common for males and females of all ages and body types to experience body image concerns and to feel less confident.
Friendships and peer interactions can be a normal, and sometimes challenging, part of growing up. Effectively communicating the distinction between typical, occasional peer relationship difficulties versus peer victimisation is crucial in supporting students through challenging times.
Internalising problems refer to difficulties students may have in managing negative thoughts and feelings such as excessive anxiety, feeling sad or lonely, or being overly self-critical. For some students these negative thoughts and feelings may start to impact their life, affecting their ability to learn and engage in the classroom, and relationships with family, friends and school staff. Â
Externalising problems refer to difficulties students may experience with regulating their attention, managing emotional and behaviour. Students with externalising problems may be easily distracted, have trouble concentrating and following teacher instructions, and may be irritable or easily angered. Â
Sign up now to find out how My Mind Check can help in your school.