Michelle
Mitchell

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Michelle Mitchell is an award-winning speaker, and bestselling parenting author. She has been termed ‘the teenage expert’ by the media and is sought after for her compassionate and grounded advice for parenting tweens and teens. Michelle started her career as a teacher, but soon discovered a special interest in wellbeing. She left teaching in 2000…

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Dr Marie
Yap

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Marie is an Associate Professor and Psychologist at Monash University. She is passionate about translating research evidence into resources that parents can access, to help promote their children’s resilience and protect them from mental health and substance misuse problems. She has developed personalized online programmes to empower parents with evidence-based skills and strategies as part…

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Pamela
Holko

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Pamela Holko was an educator for more than 30 years of her life and when she retired in 2006 – she did so just in time to become a grandparent. After 6 years of grand-parenting duties Pamela decided to write a book about it, titled “Wednesday At Gams. Providing daycare for grandchildren: what really works.”

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Maggie
Dent

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Commonly known as the ‘queen of common sense’, Maggie Dent has become one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors and educators. She has a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience, and is an undisputed ‘boy champion’. Maggie’s experience includes teaching, counselling, and working in palliative care/funeral services and suicide prevention. Maggie is an…

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Lisa
Maltman

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The Sleep Connection was established by Lisa Maltman to meet the growing need to educate students, teachers and parents in schools on the importance of sleep health. Lisa is passionate about healthy sleep and concerned about the fact that over 30% of primary school children and 70% of teenagers are sleep deprived. This is having…

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Dr. Julia
Stone, PhD

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Dr Julia Stone is a Research Fellow at Monash University, with expertise in sleep and chronobiology. Her research interests include the role of individual differences in circadian rhythms and sleep on health and performance. Dr Stone uses a mix of research methods and computational neuroscience to understand how the body clock develops, and responds to…

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Dr. Bei
Bei

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Dr. Bei Bei is a Senior Research Fellow at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Clinical Psychologist andResearch Lead at Monash University Healthy Sleep Clinic. She holds a Doctor of Psychology (Clinical) and a PhDfrom Universityof Melbourne. Her research and clinical work focus on the individual differences in sleep-wake behaviours, the relationship between sleep…

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E-News 3, 2021

We have been discussing Sleep! We all know how important sleep is, and parents have been telling us about the challenges facing families and children as they chase quality sleep. But is it really quality over quantity? Topics in this E-News include Sleep Works Wonders Play Matters VCAA – Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority NAPLAN…

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E-News 2, 2021

VPC is a community partner for the CLASS-research project at the Turner Institute at Monash University and are supporting recruitment for this exciting research project. The team is looking for Year 7 students, living in Melbourne to be part of this important research into teenage sleep. For more information, take a look at the #VPCLive…

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E-News 1, 2021

Earlier this term on 9 February, we supported the Safer Internet Day (SID) -“Together for a better internet, raising awareness about online safety. The E-Safety Commissioner organised a live Virtual Classroom webinar to test your students’ ability to detect fake news and misinformation online. This event “Be an eSafe kid: Fake news, real harms”, will…

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