Mental Health Fund and Menu

Schools Mental Health Fund and Menu

This guidance is designed to give schools best practice guidance in accessing and implementing the Schools Mental Health Fund and the Schools Mental Health Menu and contains the following chapters.

1. Schools Mental Health Fund and Menu background and objectives
   • The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System
   • The role of schools in supporting mental health and wellbeing
   • Schools Mental Health Fund and Menu objectives
2. Schools Mental Health Menu – tiers and categories
   • Tier 1: Positive mental health promotion overview
   • Tier 2: Early intervention/cohort specific overview
   • Tier 3: Targeted support
3. Schools Mental Health Fund model
4. Planning use of the Schools Mental Health Fund
   • The School Mental Health Planning Tool
   • The role of student voice in improving mental health and wellbeing in schools
5. Purchasing staffing and Menu programs with the Fund
   • Procurement process for Menu programs
   • Procurement process overview
   • Aggregated buying
   • Department-funded programs on the Menu
   • Alternative funding sources
6. Engaging staff with the Schools Mental Health Fund
   • Employing additional staff
   • Contracting sessional staff
   • Increasing the time fraction for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader or Mental Health Practitioner
   • Staffing acquittal
7. Allowable spend on Menu programs
   • Programs on the Menu
   • Casual Relief Teachers to support program implementation
   • Staff travel, meals and accommodation
   • Equipment, furniture and digital resources
   • Food and catering
   • Wellbeing dogs and associated costs
8. Acquitting the Schools Mental Health Fund
   • Acquitting
   • Credit carry over policy
   • Credit and cash transfers
9. Case studies
   • Case study 1
   • Case study 2