Dear Parents and Carers,  

Last year researchers from the University of Southern Queensland’s Centre for Health Research invited families to participate in the Healthy Minds Happy Hearts research project. If you haven’t yet signed up to participate there is still time. 

What is Healthy Minds Happy Hearts? This innovative program will help you learn if your child may be experiencing emotional or behavioural difficulties. It provides a screening assessment with measures used by psychologists, personalised feedback reports and recommendations for support, as well as access to a comprehensive information website all about child mental health.  

Healthy Minds Happy Hearts is designed to support all children and families – your child does not need to be experiencing any difficulties to take part.  

As a research project, families will be randomly allocated to one of two groups: 

• Healthy Minds Happy Hearts Group: Access to the full program, including a comprehensive screening assessment, a personalised feedback report, tailored support recommendations, and immediate access to the Healthy Minds Happy Hearts information website. 

• Standard Care Group: A brief screening assessment and a personalised feedback report and then access to the full Healthy Minds Happy Hearts program (as described above) at the end of the trial (after 12 weeks). 

What does participation involve in both groups? 

• A 10-20 minute online mental health screening survey for parents and children. 

• Two follow-up surveys, 6 and 12 weeks later. 

Participating families will also be entered into a raffle to win one of five $50 gift cards. 

To participate in this project or find out more, please visit https://healthymindshappyhearts.unisq.edu.au/  You will need to enter your school’s unique access code to begin the screening assessment. 

Our Lady of Lourdes’ school access code is RMDH 

If you have any questions, please contact the research team at healthymindshappyhearts@unisq.edu.au  

Thank you for supporting this important research!  

Your Healthy Minds Happy Hearts Research Team:  

Dr Kirsty Zieschank, Ms Hannah Matthews, Prof Sonja March, Dr Arlen Rowe & Sarah Jackman 

Sarah Jackman
Guidance Counsellor