Maggie Dent's top tips for supporting adolescents
Award winning author, educator, and speaker Maggie Dent shares her top tips for supporting adolescents.
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An introduction to ACEs and Trauma Informed Care for mentors
In this introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences, you'll learn about the 4 R's of trauma-informed care, understand the impact that trauma has on a young person's life and get some practical tips to support children and adolescents to build resilience after trauma.
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Supporting teens to manage anxiety around disaster
There has been no shortage of national and global disaster in the recent years. Feelings of fear, powerlessness and uncertainty have been felt by many adults and young people across the globe in the face of pandemic, war, natural disaster, and gun violence. Here we look at some practical ways to support the teenagers in your life to manage their anxiety around disaster.
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Q&A with award-winning student mentor, Kayley
We recently spoke to Kayley Zielinski-Nicolson, an undergraduate psychology student who mentored with Raise. Kayley talks about the impact she had on her mentee and also the impact mentoring had on her personally....
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Project Rockit
PROJECT ROCKIT is Australia's youth-driven movement against bullying, hate and prejudice. Our key purpose is to empower young people to challenge bullying and discrimination when they see it happen at school, online and beyond...
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The Story of Raise Foundation by Vicki Condon AM, CEO and Founder
The theme for International Youth Day this year is “Intergenerational solidarity – creating a world for all ages” and at Raise Foundation, this is something that we put into practise every day.
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Meet Jessie
Hi, I’m Jessie, I was invited to join the Raise program in 2017. Back then I was struggling with feeling isolated and anxious and I was highly self-critical. I found it difficult to trust others. Having someone to talk to who turned up just for me every week was a huge help...
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A force of nature with a sparkling smile
In celebration of Julie’s life and passion, her friends, family and colleagues helped to fund Raise mentoring programs and provide the gift of a mentor to 20 young people in 2021. In addition, her husband Wayne, sister Karen and some of Julie’s friends participated in Raise programs as mentors in 2021...
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Butterfly Foundation: Supporting young people with disordered eating
Health and wellbeing are paramount to a thriving young person. An important aspect of this is the relationship they have with their body, their eating and physical activity. These are unique to each person, influenced by individual and environmental factors....
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Strategies for teens to get organised and balance school and life
Following on from our recent blog about how wellbeing concerns for young people is negatively impacting school engagement, we’ve pulled together 6 tips and strategies to help the young people in your life get organised and strike a better school-life balance. 3 Top tips...
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How to help young people when their wellbeing is impacting their connection and engagement with school
The Problem We know that young people are concerned about their mental health According to the 2021 Mission Australia youth survey report: 51.5% of young people identified mental health being a barrier to achieving their work or study goals. Alarmingly,...
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Enjoying our time with teens these holidays
The holiday season is the perfect opportunity to catch up, connect and check-in with those we love. But how do we do this with the teenagers in our life who are looking forward to spending more time with...
