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InitiativesPage content: Kids-Life! | Further information Kids – Life!Kids – Life! is a new targeted Go for Your Life initiative supporting a healthy lifestyle for families. It provides childhood obesity intervention for families with children aged 5-12 years who are overweight or obese. The initiative will be locally managed by nominated Primary Care Partnerships that will support service coordination, program recruitment and workforce development in children’s weight management. Lifestyle change programs will be delivered through community health services. Further information on Kids-Life! Service Coordination Tool Templates revision 2009 – child and family projectThis service coordination project is revising the SCTT suite to make it more useful for practitioners to record and communicate information about children and families and to identify a common child development tool.Developing evidence based practice – professional development pilotThe Centre for Community Child Health has been commissioned to develop, deliver and evaluate the effectiveness of a professional development module for child health teams in community health services, based on their practice resources. The project aims to foster the uptake of evidence base practice and improve the generalist, interdisciplinary underpinning of specialist skills, in the following child health priority areas:
The professional development workshops were trialled with paediatric staff from three participating CHSs in late 2007. Final evaluation is forthcoming and will inform future workforce development. Family Partnership TrainingAn intensive training course in the Hilton Davis Family Partnership Model was provided to 60 paediatric community health practitioners over 2007. Further informationCatherine JamesManager, Primary Health Programs Primary Health Branch Department of Human Services Telephone: 9096 8762 PublicationsThe state of Victoria’s children report 2006 The state of Victoria's young people report 2007 Victoria’s plan to improve outcomes in early childhood A catalogue of evidence-based interventions Other children’s and family servicesMaternal and child health services Early Childhood Intervention Services Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Nurse on Call – telephone health line
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21 September, 2009
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