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my name is eileen and i'm five years old
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and
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when i feel sad i coloring when i feel
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happy
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i dance
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how do you know when your friend is
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feeling sad
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they just sit on the bench and stay
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there and watch everybody play
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and what do you do when you see that
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i just come to them and help them
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why do you want to help them
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because they're feeling sad like i feel
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sad every day and i know how that feels
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we need to focus on building sturdy
Building sturdy brains
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brains
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through nurturing relationships through
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good experiences that promote growth and
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development through healthy environments
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and through really promoting those
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strong social and emotional developing
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mental milestones which are actually
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critical for our development later
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and of course if we do all of that then
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this will establish the foundations for
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well-being and resilience throughout our
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lifespan i think it's important to
Importance of education
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educate i guess parents and carers about
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mental health that way
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we are aware if things may arise and at
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the same time
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children exhibit
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different signs comparative to adults
Early childhood
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it's really important that early
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childhood educators and teachers as well
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as families and carers
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all of the adults involved in a child's
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life
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understand
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what good social and emotional
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development looks like what's healthy in
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early childhood
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and to also be alert
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to signs that children might be
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struggling or having difficulty
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in that with their mental health this is
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when we can intervene early
Early intervention
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if you intervene early when the brain is
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more malleable before things have become
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permanent in terms of changes to brain
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development and structure and function
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then this is much easier to intervene at
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this stage so the earlier we intervene
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in life the earlier we
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intervene into stress and in the onset
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of illness
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the chances for better recovery
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are much much greater
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practitioners both individuals and in
evaluative frameworks
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teams need to establish evaluative
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frameworks for client practice
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circumstances change practices come and
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go
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evaluations of how children are coping
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in different aspects of their lives
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is really outcome evaluation that
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enables practices to be adapted
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and evaluated on an ongoing basis
best start
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we know that if we give children the
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best start the right start in life and
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development then they are going to grow
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into happy healthy adults
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and although we
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have many stories to tell wouldn't it be
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nice if we could tell the best story of
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all and that is we put in the investment
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that was required we built the systems
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of care that we needed and it didn't
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matter who you were or where you lived
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or who your family was
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every child got the chance to achieve
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the best possible well-being it's been a
outro
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tough time for kids in this curve at 19
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lockdown
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but the world's changing we have family
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and friends to reunite us again
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