Building Respectful Schools That Support Wellbeing (North)

Strategies for Sustainable Change That Make An Impact - Donna Cross OAM

IST is thrilled to announce Professor Donna Cross, OAM returning to Tasmania for face: face sessions for schools under the Federal Government's Consent and Respectful Relationships funding provision in 2025.

Donna will be running face:face whole day sessions in Terms 1 and 4 and a mid year webinar, facilitating schools to develop strategies that support whole school changes and the building of protective, respectful communities.

During this event, participants will have the opportunity to:

• Consider the characteristics and elements of effective whole-of-school approaches to wellbeing.
• Evaluate how well current whole school policies and processes support wellbeing and respectful relationships.
• Be given strategies to evaluate their school’s readiness to implement change and consider the process of de-implementation of less evidence informed approaches.
• Be guided through effective wellbeing and respectful relationships approaches, policies, and practices, using the foundations of the AISSA Wellbeing Toolkit, to leave with a plan that will support effective implementation at their school.

About our guest speaker:

Professor Donna Cross OAM is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Fellow at the University of Western Australia and Senior Strategic Advisor at the Telethon Kids Institute and the Chief Behavioural Advisor to the NSW government.

Professor Cross is an internationally-renowned academic, having contributed to child and adolescent health and education research in the USA, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, and Israel, working with the EU COST Collaborations, and as an expert advisor to UNESCO and WHO, and international foundations such as the (Princess) Mary Foundation in Denmark.