bower(schools)™ Information Session

We will explore how schools manage children and families with complex needs and the importance of systemic collaboration.

In the early 2000's Australia changed its mind about locking people up as its primary strategy for managing mental illness, intellectual disability, autism, addiction, acquired brain injury, child abuse, dysregulated behaviour, and criminal behaviour. The Education system has absorbed this exodus of children, adolescents, and adults from the old institutions.

Schools are responsible for things that they have never had responsibility for in the past. Join us for a bower(schools) information session, where we will explore how schools manage children and families with complex needs and the importance of collaboration with the education and health systems. We explore the recalibration between these systems, so they work together to benefit children and their families.

bower(schools) endeavours to address the boundary between schools and the mental health, medical, child protection, justice, and disability systems over the highly complex matters most schools and teachers are now engaged with.

FREE EVENT

About the presenter

Lisa Wolff

Lisa is the Director of bower(schools). She is a qualified Teacher and Counsellor with 25 years of experience in Independent and State schools in Australia and the UK; as a Classroom Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Aboriginal Education Teacher, Wellbeing Coordinator, Pastoral Care Coordinator, and Student Counsellor. Lisa is seasoned in working with children and adults with high and complex needs, complex trauma, grief, loss, neurodivergence, learning difficulties and disabilities, addictions, poverty, and interpersonal difficulties. Lisa is passionate about social justice, fairness, equality, inclusion and creating spaces where collaboration is key in successful outcomes. As director of bower(schools), Lisa works to equip school staff to transform their practices and reframe student behaviour, leading to a flourishing school culture.