The BAT Channel is home to our YouTube channel.
Here you will find a number of resources including recordings of our popular Professional Development series and a number of free resources for young people, schools and families to access.
BATPack Professional Development Series
BATForce has developed a series of Professional Development workshops aimed at educators, support staff, pre-service teachers or anyone that works with young people.
Join us as we explore regulation and wellbeing themes with workshops facilitated by industry experts. Workshops are full of practical strategies & supports. Further resources can be found in our Schools Wellbeing Hub on our Community Wellbeing Dashboard.
The BATPack Series was supported by the Victorian Government.
BATPack PD Series
You Can Ask That
Asking questions about what you’re going to do when you leave school and the pathway to your next step is tough – sometimes you just don’t know what to ask.
We spoke to students from Northern Bay College and asked them to share important questions about the first steps into their future.
The multicultural group was able to help with both questions and answers in Arabic, Karenni, Dari, Karen and Swahili.
You Can Ask That - Swahili
You Can Ask than - Karen
Mindful Minutes
Mindful Minutes is a series of short videos that discuss and share Mindfulness tools and exercises that guide young people to build an understanding of ways in which they can be more present, more aware and more in control of their emotions and behaviours.
Fiona Luca of ‘move, with Fiona’ steps you through a combination of simple Mindfulness and Meditation practices that enforce that through finding stillness, connecting with our breath and making sense of our emotions, we can in fact support ourselves better during times of overwhelm, anxiety and distress.
Mindful Minutes: Yrs 4-6
If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it
Mindful Minutes: Yrs 7-8
Mindful Minutes: Yrs 9-12
Project Care
Project Care aims to develop young people’s self-regulation skills through yoga and mindfulness techniques. It has a focus on learning grounding exercises, developing body awareness, creating positive outlooks and energizing techniques to support them at times of stress or when they are experiencing anxiety.
Fiona Luca of ‘move, with Fiona’ teaches helpful skills to reduce stress and anxiety, improve concentration, make better decisions, calm the mind and increase feelings of happiness and reduce other stressors in young people’s lives.
Project Care: Yrs 4-6
Project Care: Yrs 7-8
Project Care: Yrs 9-12
Activate Online
Activate Online is a program that encourages young people to utilise their own body and simple household items to create their own exercise program. Various styles of exercise workouts are explored allowing young people to find out what works for them. Sessions follow the same, simple structure so that workouts are easy to replicate at home at any time.