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Melina Bath urges funding continuity for student wellbeing program for Eastern Victorian schools
Melina Bath implores the Education Minister to secure ongoing funding for the student wellbeing program, ensuring certainty for Eastern Victoria and recognizing its vital mental health support.
My constituency question is for the Minister for Education, and it relates to the student wellbeing program school fund, formerly known as the school chaplaincy program. Your department committed to announcing the 2024-27 successful providers and schools by the end of term 3, however, they are still in the dark.
Minister for Education needs to to ensure funding continuity for the student wellbeing program, offering assurance to schools, principals, chaplains, and wellbeing officers assisting students to moving forward with their mental health challenges
Funding program continuity
Minister, will you please announce funding continuity of the program, including all Eastern Victoria electorate schools, to provide certainty to principals, chaplains, student wellbeing officers and their wider school communities. We know that 600 schools have benefited from the program in the past - not only chaplains but student wellbeing officers, including 34 in Gippsland.
Multiple reports clearly indicate the benefits of this. As a former teacher, I can attest that the school chaplain in my previous school was gold - and still is. This is important to assisting students moving forward with their mental health challenges - not only students but the whole school community.
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