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Report Calls for Fresh Approach to Indigenous Suicide Crisis
Living in safe and clean environments, having access to modern services that individuals find personally meaningful, possessing the necessary skills to function in the 21st century, developing a robust sense of self-worth, engaging in personally meaningful activities, and practising personal responsibility.
These are the recommendations of a new Centre for Independent Studies report by Indigenous researcher Anthony Dillon, Ph.D, to address the crisis of high suicide rates among Indigenous Australians.
Dillon’s recommendations take what he calls a strengths-based approach that assumes that people mostly do okay when both the aforementioned external and internal conditions are right. “As thousands of Indigenous Australians prove every day,” he said.
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Top journal publishes iPLAY, school-based kids fitness research
Australian research, proven to improve children’s heart health and fitness, has been published by JAMA Pediatrics, the top-ranked paediatrics journal in the world.
ACU’s Institute for Positive Psychology and Education (IPPE) and University of Newcastle’s Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition created the online teacher training program to help battle inactivity in children.
Named iPLAY, the program equips teachers with the skills and resources to involve students in 150 minutes of planned physical activity at school each week, including high-quality physical education and school sport, and two to three ‘classroom energiser’ breaks. It also promotes activity after school and on weekends through links with parents and community sport organisations.
A staggering 47.5% of school leaders are over 56 years of age. 5.5% of school leaders are over 66 years of age. Almost 7% (6.8%) of school leaders plan to retire this year in 2021.
KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
There are 16 key recommendations in the report including the following:
There is an urgent need to establish an independent taskforce to fully investigate the offensive behaviours occurring in schools.
Standardisation and risk management of online meetings with parents may be required to ensure quality control and reduce offensive behaviours and are likely to be more convenient for parents and principals.
Employers need to take the moral choice of reducing job demands or increase job resources to allow school leaders to cope with the increased workload.
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