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Associations Between Organised Sport Participation and Children’s Mental Health

 I am currently working on a few mental health education initiatives arsing from the Big Talks for Little People program  for primary schools (see  here ). Big Talks for Little People is an innovative mental health education program empirically studied and found to make a significant difference in students self reported social emotional learning rating and in instances of bullying where the Schools Program has been run. One of the new initiatives is a mental health HPE program with ten lesson units of work for Year 2, Year 4 and Year 6 which will be trialled in Term2 of the Australian school year in 2024. Another initiative is the Big Talks for Little People Playing Sport program which is under development, with possible trials in Australia and Swedan later this year. We include Teacher Information Sheets in the Big Talks for Little People program to summarise the research evidence on areas related to the topics within the program's lessons. Recently, I looked at the research for s

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