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Responding to natural disasters

Floods

Principals Australia joins with Australian education-based organisations in extending condolences to those affected by the Queensland, New South Wales, Victorian and Tasmanian floods. Principals Australia has human and school-based resources and will be working behind the scenes to assist and support school communities.

We encourage school leaders and personnel to seek more information from their state education department offices and professional associations listed below.

Queensland

• Queensland Catholic Education Commission
• The Department of Education, Training and the Arts
• Independent Schools Queensland

New South Wales

• Association of Independent Schools of NSW
• Catholic Education Commission NSW
• NSW Department of Education and Training

Victoria

• Catholic Education Office

• Dept of Education and Early Childhood Development
• Independent Schools Victoria

Tasmania

• Department of Education
• Catholic Education Office

Additional resources

We also recommend the information resources that can be found through the following websites.

• Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network (ACATLGN) 
• National Association for Loss And Grief (NSW) Inc.
• The Principals Australia website directs school leaders to professional association sites for their states where information has been posted.

Teachers and leadership interested in additional resources on loss and grief can access the websites below.

• KidsMatter has resource sheets on anxiety and fear prepared by the Australian Psychological Society.
• The MindMatters 2000 resource kit booklet, Loss and Grief.