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Trusted adult tipsheets

Topic: Student health and wellbeing

Year Level
  • Year 7
  • Year 8
  • Year 9
  • Year 10
  • Year 11
  • Year 12
Content Type
  • Program/Overview
Audience
  • AIEO
  • Career practitioner
  • Chaplain
  • Deputy Principal
  • Education Assistant
  • Educator
  • Head of learning area
  • Principal
  • Psychologist
  • School leader
  • School nurse
  • Student services
  • Teacher
  • Youth worker
Learning Area
  • Health and Physical Education
Trusted adult guide: Your guide for supporting young people to navigate personal safety and wellbeing How to use this resource: Educator’s edition

Trusted adult tipsheets are designed to be shared with parents and carers.

Each tipsheet outlines why the topic matters, what adults might notice, and clear strategies for responding in calm, supportive and consistent ways. They include helpful prompts, example language and quick responses that can be adapted to suit their relationship with the young person.

Used alongside the Trusted adult guide and the Young person’s guide to personal safety, these tipsheets support educators, parents and carers to have a shared language for safety and strengthen partnerships between schools, families and the broader community. They can be thought of as a point-of-need toolkit. You don’t need to read them in order. Just locate the one you need when a specific situation arises. They are designed to help trusted adults stay calm, feel prepared and know what to say.

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Tip sheet 1: Talking about safety

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about safety with students at school. Young people learn that safety has two parts: • Being safe: what is happening (facts and behaviour) • Feeling safe: how the body and emotions respond. They use the building blocks of safety to judge safety: • Choice: Do I have a say? • Control: Can I make decisions or leave? • Time limit: Do I know when it ends?

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Tip sheet 2: Talking about networks

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about safety networks with students at school. A safety network can include: • trusted adults and friends • school staff and community support • professional services. Young people learn that: • different people play different roles • friends are important, but some problems need an adult • if one adult doesn’t help, they should keep asking until someone does.

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Tip sheet 3: Talking about abuse and neglect

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about abuse and neglect with students at school. Young people learn: • what abuse and neglect are, and the different forms they can take • abuse is never their fault • the person who harms is always responsible for their own behaviour? • grooming and coercive control can be hard to spot • the difference between healthy and harmful behaviour • how to seek help safely • support is available through networks and helplines.

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Tip sheet 4: Talking about warning signs

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about warning signs with students at school. Young people learn to listen to their body and trust their warning signs. They explore: • how the body reacts to danger (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Flop) • how calming skills can help their ‘thinking brain’ take over • how to notice their own warning signs (e.g. racing heart, tight chest, cold hands) • how to build a personal safety plan.

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Tip sheet 5: Talking about risk-taking

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about risk-taking with students at school. Young people learn to tell the difference between: • safe activities • safe risk activities (fun to feel scared) • risking on purpose activities • unsafe activities. They learn that: • taking risks is a normal part of growing up • safety can change from moment to moment • choice, control and time limit help them make good decisions • peer pressure can affect safety.

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Tip sheet 6: Talking about consent and rights

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about consent and rights with students at school. Consent is part of everyday respect, not just intimate situations. Young people learn: • they own their body and their ‘digital body’ (images, messages and online identity) • consent must be freely given, clear, informed, ongoing, and only possible when both people have the capacity to choose • a ‘no’ always matters • consent applies online and offline • they can change their mind at any time

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Tip sheet 7: Talking about staying safe online

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about staying safe online with students at school. Young people learn: • online spaces can be positive and risky • they have the right to safety, privacy and respect online • boundaries and consent apply online and offline • pressure and threats are never OK • eSafety Commissioner and ACCCE can help if things go wrong.

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Tip sheet 8: Talking about bullying

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about bullying with students at school. Young people learn that: • bullying is a misuse of power, not banter • they have the right to feel safe and respected • bullying is never their fault • speaking up is a way to stay safe • adult support can stop harm and restore safety • ‘bystanders’ can choose to be ‘upstanders’

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Tip sheet 9: Talking about Safe2Say (anonymous reporting)

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about Safe2Say with students at school. Young people learn that: • there are safe, private ways to report sexual abuse in WA • they can choose if, when and how much they share • Safe2Say offers a way to report without giving a name • trusted adults can help them through next steps without pressure.

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Tip sheet 10: Talking about violent extremism

Share this Trusted Adult Tipsheet with parents and carers when talking about violent extremism with students at school. Young people learn that: • it’s healthy to care about issues but harmful, hateful or violent actions are never OK • beliefs can be expressed safely and respectfully • people can leave extremist groups and change • help is always available.

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