Schools/education

School teachers and their support staff play an increasingly important role in supporting parents with mental illness and their children

Taking a 'family focus' can help the recovery of parents with a mental illness, foster resilience in their children and support the entire family living with the challenges that parental mental illness can bring.

Advice for education workers

• When you are working with children and youth
  
  
• When you are working with parents, their partners and carers
  
  
• Resources for schools, teachers and those working in education