Open Parachute Mental Health and Wellbeing Program In Partnership with The Adelaide Crows Foundation
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This research project is a collaboration between UniSA and Open Parachute Aus Pty Ltd (Open Parachute), aiming to create new and innovative approaches to support educational mental health and wellbeing programs and change the landscape of educational mental health and wellbeing research. Open Parachute creates mental health and wellbeing programs for Pre-K to Year 12 schools that teach mental health and wellbeing skills to students, educators, and parents globally including US, Canada and Australia. Programs are pre prepared and based on documentary videos of real youth sharing their stories of overcoming struggle.
This research program includes a PhD project-based research degree cohort model, currently with four PhD students and internships to explore mental health and wellbeing across the following perspectives;
- Students (Graduate Researcher Kerry Todd)
- Teachers (Graduate Researcher Benjamin Habsburg)
- School Leadership (Graduate Researcher Amanda Cameron)
- Parent/carer and child/young person - home context (Graduate Researcher Pat Kit Tsang)
The student cohort is supported through the UniSA Education Futures Research community aligned with CRESI and C3L research centres, HDR research development program with expert transdisciplinary supervisory teams including Dr Deborah Price (Education), Dr Steph Webb (Psychology) and Open Parachute End Users Dr Hayley Watson and Mr Tom Pastro.
Further information on the Open Parachute Mental Health and Wellbeing program can be found at
