MS TIERNEY: In the south-west, four colleges—Apollo Bay P–12 College, Lavers Hill K–12 College, Lorne P–12 College and Colac Secondary College—are leading the way in supporting the mental health needs of regional Victorians. Recruitment is already underway to appoint mental health practitioners to work with students in each school every week starting in term 4. Targeting student needs in this area is a direct response to input from south-west principals and community groups to the government’s review of regional education outcomes as part of the $51.2 million program to place mental health practitioners in all Victorian schools by 2020. This government’s goal is to lift regional education outcomes so there is no difference— (Time expired)
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