Multicultural Education Aides in Victoria
This Zoom event aims to support MEAs by bringing them together to share what they are currently doing and providing them with strategies to sustain themselves in this difficult time.
Practical Classroom Strategies
This half-day workshop is aimed at school staff working directly with students in the classroom, or in leadership roles, with an influence on teaching and learning in their schools.
Partnering with Families
This workshop is designed to assist schools and individuals to understand the challenges families of refugee backgrounds may face in engaging with their child’s school and develop strategies to move towards working in partnership with these families.
Partnering with Families
This workshop is designed to assist schools and individuals to understand the challenges families of refugee backgrounds may face in engaging with their child’s school and develop strategies to move towards working in partnership with these families.
Foundation Module B: Trauma Impacts on Learning and Behaviour
In this module we pick up where module A concludes, with the trauma recovery framework and goals.
Talking about trauma B: self-care for MEAs and Bicultural staff
This session provides MEAs and bicultural staff with the skills to build self-awareness and protect their well-being when working with trauma.
Foundation Modules A: The Refugee Experience, and B: Trauma Impacts on Learning and Behaviour
This 1-day workshop covers both of our foundation modules, with opportunities to work collaboratively with other professionals from a range of schools and services.
Talking about trauma A: supporting students and families from refugee backgrounds
This session provides MEAs and bicultural staff with ways to respond when students and families share traumatic stories of their past.
Foundation Module A: The Refugee Experience
In Module A, we introduce the refugee experience and Foundation House School Support Program’s whole-school approach to supporting students of refugee background. This module is a pre-requisite to all other Foundation House School Support Program training.
Online briefing for School Leaders: Differentiating the roles of MEAs and Trained Interpreters in your school
This briefing for school leaders provides information about identifying when and how to use an MEA or professional interpreter.
Transitions (advanced)
This workshop is aimed at school staff supporting students of refugee backgrounds as they transition into, through or out of school.