Mental health supports for students over school holidays
Mental health support, resources and advice are available for students and families to access over the school holidays.
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Mental health support, resources and advice are available for students and families to access over the school holidays. Two fact sheets for students and families have been developed in 27 different languages to:
- support positive mental health and wellbeing of students
- identify signs students may need mental health support
- access available support.
Information for parents, carers and families
This fact sheet provides tips and resources for parents, carers and families of children and young people in their care over the school holidays. This includes services to reach out to if more support for them is needed.
- For parents and carers – Wellbeing support over the school holidays (English) (docx - 631kb)
- For parents and carers – Wellbeing support over the school holidays accessible (English) (docx - 81kb)(opens in a new window)
Translated fact sheets for parents, carers and families of children and young people, including services to reach out to if more support is needed:
- Amharic – parents and carers (pdf - 154kb)
- Amharic – parents and carers (docx - 91kb)
- Arabic – parents and carers (pdf - 337kb)
- Arabic – parents and carers (docx - 84kb)
- Burmese – parents and carers (pdf - 168kb)
- Burmese – parents and carers (docx - 83kb)
- Chinese (Simplified) – parents and carers (pdf - 311kb)
- Chinese (Simplified) – parents and carers (docx - 87kb)
- Chinese (Traditional) – parents and carers (pdf - 282kb)
- Chinese (Traditional) – parents and carers (docx - 86kb)
- Dari – parents and carers (pdf - 226kb)
- Dari – parents and carers (docx - 89kb)
- Dinka – parents and carers (pdf - 231kb)
- Dinka – parents and carers (docx - 90kb)
- Filipino – parents and carers (pdf - 104kb)
- Filipino – parents and carers (docx - 92kb)
- Hindi – parents and carers (pdf - 179kb)
- Hindi – parents and carers (docx - 87kb)
- Karen – parents and carers (pdf - 155kb)
- Karen – parents and carers (docx - 90kb)
- Khmer – parents and carers (pdf - 219kb)
- Khmer – parents and carers (docx - 91kb)
- Korean – parents and carers (pdf - 228kb)
- Korean – parents and carers (docx - 84kb)
- Malay – parents and carers (pdf - 125kb)
- Malay – parents and carers (docx - 85kb)
- Nepali – parents and carers (pdf - 240kb)
- Nepali – parents and carers (docx - 89kb)
- Oromo – parents and carers (pdf - 152kb)
- Oromo – parents and carers (docx - 86kb)
- Punjabi – parents and carers (pdf - 181kb)
- Punjabi – parents and carers (docx - 87kb)
- Russian – parents and carers (pdf - 184kb)
- Russian – parents and carers (docx - 84kb)
- Samoan – parents and carers (pdf - 125kb)
- Samoan – parents and carers (docx - 83kb)
- Sinhalese – parents and carers (pdf - 220kb)
- Sinhalese – parents and carers (docx - 88kb)
- Somali – parents and carers (pdf - 128kb)
- Somali – parents and carers (docx - 86kb)
- Swahili – parents and carers (pdf - 113kb)
- Swahili – parents and carers (docx - 82kb)
- Tamil – parents and carers (pdf - 172kb)
- Tamil – parents and carers (docx - 86kb)
- Tigrigna – parents and carers (pdf - 210kb)
- Tigrigna – parents and carers (docx - 92kb)
- Tongan – parents and carers (pdf - 140kb)
- Tongan – parents and carers (docx - 86kb)
- Turkish – parents and carers (pdf - 137kb)
- Turkish – parents and carers (docx - 86kb)
- Urdu – parents and carers (pdf - 274kb)
- Urdu – parents and carers (docx - 90kb)
- Vietnamese – parents and carers (pdf - 157kb)
- Vietnamese – parents and carers (docx - 86kb)
Information for students
This fact sheet provides tips on looking after your mental health and wellbeing over the school holidays and information on the services available to you if you need to reach out for support.
- For students – Wellbeing support over the school holidays (English) (docx - 647kb)
- For students – Wellbeing support over the school holidays accessible (English) (docx - 76kb)(opens in a new window)
Translated fact sheets for students’ wellbeing support over the school holidays:
- Amharic – students (pdf - 159kb)
- Amharic – students (docx - 88kb)
- Arabic – students (pdf - 241kb)
- Arabic – students (docx - 80kb)
- Burmese – students (pdf - 161kb)
- Burmese – students (docx - 85kb)
- Chinese (Simplified) – students (pdf - 235kb)
- Chinese (Simplified) – students (docx - 83kb)
- Chinese (Traditional) – students (pdf - 302kb)
- Chinese (Traditional) – students (docx - 80kb)
- Dari – students (pdf - 196kb)
- Dari – students (docx - 86kb)
- Dinka – students (pdf - 213kb)
- Dinka – students (docx - 83kb)
- Filipino – students (pdf - 83kb)
- Filipino – students (docx - 83kb)
- Hindi – students (pdf - 184kb)
- Hindi – students (docx - 85kb)
- Karen – students (pdf - 140kb)
- Karen – students (docx - 84kb)
- Khmer – students (pdf - 183kb)
- Khmer – students (docx - 81kb)
- Korean – students (pdf - 203kb)
- Korean – students (docx - 80kb)
- Malay – students (pdf - 88kb)
- Malay – students (docx - 81kb)
- Nepali – students (pdf - 203kb)
- Nepali – students (docx - 86kb)
- Oromo – students (pdf - 137kb)
- Oromo – students (docx - 79kb)
- Punjabi – students (pdf - 160kb)
- Punjabi – students (docx - 83kb)
- Russian – students (pdf - 139kb)
- Russian – students (docx - 83kb)
- Samoan – students (pdf - 83kb)
- Samoan – students (docx - 85kb)
- Sinhalese – students (pdf - 177kb)
- Sinhalese – students (docx - 84kb)
- Somali – students (pdf - 83kb)
- Somali – students (docx - 82kb)
- Swahili – students (pdf - 99kb)
- Swahili – students (docx - 83kb)
- Tamil – students (pdf - 155kb)
- Tamil – students (docx - 83kb)
- Tigrigna – students (pdf - 185kb)
- Tigrigna – students (docx - 85kb)
- Tongan – students (pdf - 97kb)
- Tongan – students (docx - 88kb)
- Turkish – students (pdf - 121kb)
- Turkish – students (docx - 79kb)
- Urdu – students (pdf - 206kb)
- Urdu – students (docx - 86kb)
- Vietnamese – students (pdf - 158kb)
- Vietnamese – students (docx - 82kb)
Updated 26 March 2026
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