Publications
KidsMatter Primary is committed to promoting the great work of schools in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of Australian Primary school-aged children. As part of this, KidsMatter Primary regularly contributes articles to relevant publications. These publications inform the general public and wider research community about the success of KidsMatter, and influence new mental health initiatives and services for children around the world.
General Publications
Impressive evaluation results lead to significant expansion of KidsMatter (2009)
This article documents the upscaling of the KidsMatter initiative following successful pilot evaluation.
(c) 2009 The Australian Psychological Society Limited. InPsych, 31(6): 22-24. Reproduced with permission.
KidsMatter national expansion: a partnership between education and health (2009).
This article provides an overview of attempts to build and strengthen partnerships between the health and education sectors to support further implementation of KidsMatter Primary.
(c) 2009 The Australian Psychological Society Limited. InPsych, 31(3):35. Reproduced with permission.
Peer-reviewed publications
As part of the pilot evaluation KidsMatter Primary has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals.
This article provides an overview of KidsMatter Primary during the pilot evaluation of the initiative.
This article describes and analyses the challenges of planning and conducting the evaluation of KidsMatter Primary during the first year of the two-year pilot.
These articles have been reproduced with the permission of the International Journal of Mental Health Promotion.
Venturing into schools: Locating mental health initiatives in complex environments (2009)
This paper investigates the environments of schools participating in KidsMatter Primary in Australia. The focus of the paper is on the status of the schools’ work in one of the key focus areas for the initiative, namely students’ social and emotional capabilities.
This article has been reproduced with the permission of The International Journal of Emotional Education.
Conference papers
This paper provides a national snapshot of the mental health status of Australian primary children, and comments on measures used to assess student mental health during the evaluation of KidsMatter Primary.
Evaluation report
Click here to read the report of the KidsMatter Primary pilot evalaution (including a report on findings for students with a disability).
