Student Support Team
Regents Park State School has a Student Support Team that consists of the Guidance Officer, Speech Language Pathologist, Head of Special Education Services, Deputy Principals and Principal. If you have a concern regarding your child's progress, you can discuss this with your child's teacher, who will refer your child and their needs to the Student Support Team for advice and follow up actions.
Guidance Officer
The School Guidance Officer works three days a week. Guidance Officers employed as a wellbeing
professional may:
▪ Provide wellbeing support and counselling to students
focused on prevention and early intervention.
▪ Provide individual and small group counselling, and
therapeutic intervention to students on a range of
issues, including those related to: - mental health concerns - personal relationships - stress - school attendance and engagement with the
curriculum - family issues.
▪ Provide support and ensure safety plans for the school
context are implemented for students who are self
harming and/or at risk of suicide.
▪ Apply their understanding of the mental health
continuum to identify when students require additional
mental health support outside of the school context
and provide referrals to external agencies.
▪ Support and monitor students following a critical
incident or emergency to support wellbeing.
▪ With student agreement, work with other wellbeing
and school staff to ensure strategies developed with
the student can be put in place in the classroom and
school community.
▪ Provide support to students as they transition into
alternative education programs and settings and
reintegrate back into mainstream schooling.
Youth Program