13th HOPE Congress

Topics

• Relationships
  • Effective engagement of students from diagnosis, treatment, and beyond in different education contexts (i.e., home, hospital, mainstream schools)
  • The role of allied health professionals and educator teams in improving educational and developmental outcomes for young people
  • Support of students and families through the transition stages of the child`s development (e.g., early years to primary; primary to secondary; secondary to tertiary/employment)
  • Class-student connections and activities that empower peer relationships as a crucial component of education during the different stages of the illness (e.g., hospitalisation, home treatments, school re-entry)
  • Maintaining relationships and empowering belonging of students with mental health needs, including new and emerging disorders such as school phobia, eating disorders, self-injury
  • Policy and advocacy that bridge the gap between the education and the health sectors with the hospital or in the mainstream schools
• Cultures
  • Activities tailored for patients and families from different cultural or linguistic backgrounds
  • Student, parent and/or family perspectives on education and health
  • Inclusion in mainstream classes
  • Sibling activities
  • Narrative activities aimed at acknowledging and empowering all forms of diversity as a key component of each person`s identity and of our modern societies
• Competencies
  • Teaching practices and strategies to support individual needs of students with specific illnesses in different settings (e.g., home, hospital, mainstream schools), as well as their teachers and schoolmates
  • Interventions and strategies to support student-centred programs at home, in the hospital, or within the classroom
  • School re-entry programs and sound practices to inform and prepare the classroom, parents, and teachers for the presence of a student with special health care needs
  • The impacts of illness on quality of life: learning, social life, development
  • Preparing and supporting the class in dealing with bereavement and loss
  • The role of the homebound and hospital teacher in supporting the student`s education and development
  • Effective coping with illness management in the classroom, at home, in the hospital, including new and emerging disorders such as school phobia, eating disorders, self-injury
  • Activities that build resilience in the classroom to foster the wellbeing of students