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- Supporting children during COVID-19
- Children's mental health resources
- NEW blog series: Quality improvement
- Improving telehealth in regional Victoria
- A free webinar + more training opportunities
Build skills from your home office
Our remote training program includes a FREE webinar on the Family Partnership Model, a webinar on making telepractice work best for you and the families you work with, plus lots more!
Podcast, parenting and COVID-19
Professors Sharon Goldfeld and Frank Oberklaid contribute to a new MCRI podcast about supporting children to learn, develop and thrive in the age of coronavirus.
A whole school approach to mental health
The Centre and the University of Melbourne are developing a program to support students mental health.
Wimmera Southern Mallee expands telehealth services
The Centre has been working with practitioners from regional Victoria to expand their telehealth and telepractice services so that more families receive quality and timely care from child health specialists.
A-Z on children’s mental health
The Raising Children Network has developed an A-Z online guide that brings together the latest mental health information and resources for practitioners.
Maintaining newborn hearing screening during COVID-19
The Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program has successfully adapted their operations to ensure babies’ continue to receive the best chance of normal speech and language development.
Child Public Health program for professionals
Learn about the factors that influence children’s health, development, and wellbeing across the life course. You’ll also explore a range of public health issues and case studies of contemporary approaches in practice. A University of Melbourne course open to the public commencing 5 July 2020.
Are you an innovator? Our new blog series explores the role of quality improvement in enhancing early years services and systems.
Recent publications
1. COVID-19 racism is making kids sick
Read about the impacts of racism on child health and what we can do during COVID-19 and beyond.
2. COVID-19: how can we ensure the kids are alright?
How our universal health services can be better utilised to address child health inequities.
Evidence and Implementation Summit 2021
Early bird registrations and abstracts are now open. Explore the intersection between evidence, implementation science, policy and politics.
Training and events
Telepractice webinar | 25 June 2020
Join Dr Paul Prichard, Dr Tim Moore and Dr Billy Garvey as they discuss the benefits of telepractice, and how to make it work best for you and the families you work with.
Duration: 1 hour | Cost: $155
FREE Family Partnership webinar | 22 June 2020
Learn about the leading model helping practitioners and organisations around Australia to work in partnership with families more effectively.
Difficult Conversations: How do we have them? | 24 June 2020
Access tools and approaches to help you navigate difficult conversations while sustaining relationships.
Duration: 4 hours | Cost: $165
Reflective Practice | 15, 22 & 29 July 2020
Support professionals in their work with children and families using reflective practice techniques.
Duration: 3 x 1 hour sessions | Cost: $165
For all enquiries and to discuss our customised training options, please email training.ccch@rch.org.au
The Centre for Community Child Health is a department of The Royal Children’s Hospital and research group of Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. The Centre contributes to improving the health, development and wellbeing of children by identifying, synthesising and translating the best evidence to inform policy, service delivery, practice and parenting.
