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Early Years Health and Wellbeing Program

The Early Years Health and Wellbeing Program provides a range of services to families of Prep-year children with additional support needs at participating schools in Ipswich and Mackay.

The services are provided by dedicated teams in Ipswich and Mackay who have a presence on-site at participating schools. These teams identify needs among Prep-year children and work with their families to refer them to relevant health and other support services.

The program also aims to build school community capacity to provide support and early intervention to vulnerable families to improve child health and development outcomes.

Services

The Early Years Health and Wellbeing Program services include:

• parenting support and parenting groups
• financial management support
• referrals to other specialist support services
• helping families develop living skills
• providing information about children's health and wellbeing needs and how to meet these.

The Early Years Health and Wellbeing teams work with families to help them determine their children's health and wellbeing needs, support options and preferences.

They also help families to access child and family services such as child health clinics, doctors or child and youth mental health services when required. This assistance may include providing transport and accompanying family members to appointments if requested.

The role of the team extends to attracting services into schools to provide support and training to families and staff on topics including nutrition, anger management, parenting education, recreational activities and family violence programs.

Referrals

Families may be referred to the Early Years Health and Wellbeing team by teachers, the school principal or they may self-refer.

The school will seek permission from parents or carers for staff from the Early Years Health and Wellbeing team to review any child's information or to contact parents or carers if they need to discuss any issues that may arise.

Further information is available by contacting the service providers below:

Mackay

George Street Neighbourhood Centre - Shakepeare Child and Family Centre
Phone: (07) 4957 7222
Program is delivered at Victoria Park State School, Mackay Central State School, Mackay West State School and Sarina State School.

Ipswich

Australian Red Cross
Phone: (07) 3367 7444
Program is delivered at Ipswich North State School, Redbank Plains State School and Silkstone State School.

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