Child health teams

The department funds 12 child health teams in Victoria’s community health services (CHSs). The teams work with children who have mild to moderate developmental difficulties and behavioural issues. To do so, child health teams provide coordinated, community-based, multidisciplinary services.

Beyond the 12 CHSs that receive specific child health funding, many more CHSs provide multidisciplinary child and family services. All these services aim to improve the health and development of children, especially those at risk of falling behind early development milestones.

What child health teams aim to do

All child health teams aim to:

promote children’s positive health, growth and functioning within the community
ensure early identification, assessment and intervention
improve the capacity of parents and families to understand and manage their child’s health and development
support families to access other local services that they may need
develop partnerships with other early childhood services, including maternal and child health, early childhood intervention and family services, and preschools.