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ShutterstockYesterday, Victorian Minister for Mental Health James Merlino announced additional funding of $22 million for mental health support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The centrepiece of this announcement was $13.3 million for 20 “pop-up community mental health services” with “around 90 dedicated clinicians providing 93,000 additional hours of well-being checks and counselling”. This announcement is a small step towards overcoming some of the deficiencies in mental health service provision which were identified by the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. So it’s not surprising the new funding has been welcomed by mental health advocates. However, is it likely...

Players and coaches form a prayer circle on the field after an NFL football game between the New Orleans Saints and the Dallas Cowboys in New Orleans on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019. | Bill Feig, Associated Press What I learned from listening to the Pray app’s new series of NFL team prayers This article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. I wasn’t expecting to be impressed when I cued up the Pray app’s new series of NFL prayers. I figured the brief recordings would be...

I love to make my kids’ education experiential and hands-on whenever possible. Often, life gets so busy that my grand ideas don’t actually happen as often as I would like. Over the course of the past year, given the shutdown pandemic-y status of the world, we were actually able to do a lot more hands-on history activities than we’ve done in previous years. However, while I took time to take pictures of many of these activities, I never actually posted them. This papyrus and hieroglyphs activity is from over a year ago. (Insert palm to forehead emoji.) However, it was...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Ten Terrific Tips for Transcripts. Ten Tips for Terrific Transcripts Transcripts are vitally important as record of all the work your homeschool high schoolers have done. Who needs need a high school transcript: Homeschool graduates who want to serve in the military (check out this interview with a military recruiter) Non-college-bound homeschool graduates who will be going into the workforce. (Most employers do not ask to see your teens’ transcript, but it does happen occasionally.) College-bound homeschool graduates Click image for full description. BTW- 7Sisters has a transcript kit that includes an editable template...

Illustration by Brian Cronin The pandemic revealed what veteran homeschoolers knew all along: There is more than one way to teach a child Chelsea Forsythe was a teacher early in her career, ran a preschool out of her home and earned a master’s degree in education. The idea of homeschooling long percolated in the back of her mind, a backup plan in case of emergency. That emergency came last fall as her kids returned to school. When the physical building reopened after the COVID-19 shutdown, the kids encountered drama about masks, drama about outbreaks, drama about how to safely do...