The Danny Frawley Centre for Health and Wellbeing, powered by AIA Vitality, launches a landmark School wellbeing partnership to support students in Melbourne’s Bayside area.
This new initiative with Firbank Grammar School has been developed in response to the increasingly complex post-pandemic world in which young people are growing up. The Danny Frawley Centre for Health and Wellbeing (DFC), powered by AIA Vitality, is partnering with Firbank Grammar School to continue to build upon the School’s wellbeing, mental health, leadership and high-performance services already provided to students.
After launching the Centre in March this year (2022) in honour of the late Danny ‘Spud’ Frawley, his daughter Chelsea along with Kirstan Corben, executive director for the Centre, today joined with Firbank Grammar School’s Principal Jenny Williams to sign the agreement which opens the services up via the School to students of its three Melbourne campuses. The DFC, with its state-of-the-art facilities and leadership teams via the St Kilda Football Club, combined with the first-rate facilities and community of Firbank Grammar School, will be setting a standard that the Centre and the School hope others can learn from.
Jenny Williams said: “What we aim to do together is to provide positive role modelling, input and training and use a range of strategies students can develop throughout their whole life. Wellbeing in the young is a pivotal part of shaping an individual’s future direction and happiness; they can’t finish well unless they start well.”
“We have always had a leading wellbeing focus at our School with health, a positive mind frame and wellbeing at the centre of everything we do, but now we have gone one step further and taken the concept and practice to a new level, working with the community.”
Kirstan says that this is the first step in what the Centre has been aiming for, using wider community reach to help change people’s lives. “While today is ground-breaking and leading the way so others can follow, what I’m looking forward to, and what I think would mean the most to Danny, is seeing young people growing up with healthy bodies and healthy minds, setting them up for a long and happy life.”
Chelsea Frawley says she is so pleased to see that her father’s legacy is helping people from the very young to the older to focus on mental health as a means of promoting a thriving community. “Community means everyone – the young and our more senior members. When we are all well, then the entire community flourishes. We need to think not only about our present community but the future generations to come. Dad would be very proud to know that schools can learn from this partnership and develop communities around this great country that we all love and have a stake in making it prosperous for all.”
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