Supporting You

Finding out more information about COVID-19

Stay up to date with official information and advice about the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. You can check your symptoms and get notified when urgent information and updates are published.

Coronacast is a podcast that helps to answer your questions about coronavirus or COVID19. We break down the latest news and research to help you understand how the world is living through an epidemic.

Talking to your child about COVID-19

Some parents have had questions about how much information to share with their children, and how specifically to talk about COVID-19. We recommend the following resources to guide your conversation with your daughter.

From National Association of
School Psychologists


From Child Mind Institute

Eight Tips to Help Comfort and Protect Children

From Unicef Australia
A short book on Coronavirus from Mindheart.co

We are currently in a time of a lot of uncertainty. If you or your children are experiencing some worries or anxiety, know that this a really normal response to the situation. There are lots of ideas that can be used individually or as a family to help support our health and wellbeing during this time. Try out some of the ideas, use available resources and find what works for your family. Everyone will have different strategies and routines that they find most helpful.

Addressing anxiety in the home

If you or your family experience stress during the period of remote learning, please remember this is part of a natural response in adjusting to a ‘new normal’. You can help your children by modelling for your family how to use healthy coping skills and self-care strategies when faced with an unexpected change.

Experiencing stress during our school moving to remote learning will be a natural response in adjusting to a ‘new normal’. You can help your children by modelling for your family how to use healthy coping skills and self-care strategies when faced with an unexpected change. Here is a list of apps that are good for anxiety and stress relief. We encourage you to have a look at these apps with your children to see what you might find useful as a family.


There are lots of different things we can use to manage an increase in stress levels during this time. Some of us might find it useful to walk through some guided imagery with our children while we are all spending more time at home. This link has a range of recordings that you can use as a family:


Tips for Coping with Stress During Disease Outbreaks

More specifically, there are also resources with tips for coping with stress during infectious disease outbreaks:



Managing your child’s anxiety and stress levels during the transition to online learning

There are lots of wonderful online programs that you might like to work through with your child during this time.

Here are two examples that are free to access:

General online resources to support parents

Parent Helpline: Phone Counselling Support

From the Kids Helpline
By Dr Daniel Siegal and Tina Bryson