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Newsletter February 2019

WHAT’S INSIDE?

Chairperson’s Letter
WA Chapter Report
RCH National Child Health Poll – Newsletter
Childhood Summit 2019
2019 World Pediatrics Conference
Release Toolkit: ‘Talking the Talk: Listening to Family Stories – Supporting Children to Play and Learn’
Aracy – Draft Action Plan
Academy of Child and Adolescent Health (ACAH) 2019 Conference

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CHAIRPERSON’S LETTER

Dear Members

Welcome to the February edition of Communique. I hope you are having a good start to the new year.

I would like to acknowledge and thank members who give freely of their time to participate in the activities of the College, to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people and promote the specialty. Some of the activities that ACCYPN has been actively involved with in recent times include:

Australasian Clinical Indicator Report 17th Edition 2010-2017
National Strategic Approach to Maternity Services (NSAMS)
Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy: 2017 and Beyond
Research Protocol for the review of the evidence base for the update of Patient Blood Management (PBM) Guidelines: Modules 2 to 6
Academy of Child and Adolescent Health Strategic Planning
National Community Child Health Council
Queensland Statewide Child and Youth Clinical Network Child Health Sub Network
CoNNMO
Kids Off Nauru – Open Letter to the Prime Minister
NMBA and CATSINaM joint statement on culturally safe care

We are looking forward to another year of actively engaging and collaborating with nursing organisations in Australia and the Asia Pacific and all organisations whose interest and focus is improving children and young people’s health care.

“NO ONE can do everything, but EVERYONE can do something”
(Author unknown)

Regards
Catherine Marron

WA CHAPTER REPORT

The WA Chapter has planned our first event for 2019: It is on Tuesday March 5th at 16:45 for a 17:00 start. The venue is the Auditorium, Level 5 at Perth Children’s Hospital. The talk is titled: The Transformed Landscape of Childhood Brain Tumours and is presented by Dr Nick Gottardo, the Co-Head Brain Tumour Research Team and Consultant Paediatric Oncologist/Neuro-Oncologist.

The Committee is in the process of planning other events for 2019 and we trust they will be as enjoyable as previous year’s suppers and breakfasts.

Again, our thanks to everyone who has made suggestions for future events. We will share the findings of the survey we conducted in the latter part of 2018 in the next newsletter, but we are pleased to announce that we did recruit two new committee members: Jade Ferullo and Tanya Svilicich. I’m sure you will share with us our thanks and welcome to Jade and Tanya.

Finally, thanks again to all members for your continued support.

WA Chapter Committee

GETTING CHILDREN TO SCHOOL IS NOT EASY RIDE FOR PARENTS

Research shows seven in ten Australian school children almost never walk or ride to school and the main worries parents have about independent travel relate to the safety of their child. Read more key findings here.

POLL REPORT

Most Australian school children are being driven to school, Dr Anthea Rhodes’ latest report explores the physical benefits of active travel and the role it plays in developing independence. Read the full report here.

VIDEO: A SNAPSHOT OF THE FINDINGS

In this video, Dr Anthea Rhodes explores how active travel to school has both physical and mental benefits and offers positive parenting tips on ways to incorporate active travel into your week. Watch it here.

LEARN MORE

The RCH Poll is a quarterly, national survey of Australian parents shedding new light on the big issues in contemporary child and adolescent health. Previous topics include bullying, child mental health, screen time and oral health. Explore polls here.

CHILDHOOD SUMMIT

The Childhood Summit 2019 will bring together 34 child-centred leaders from around the world. Experts in the fields of health, education, environment, community and infrastructure. This event is for everybody involved in the health and well-being of our children.

#ChildhoodSummit2019

2019 WORLD PEDIATRICS CONFERENCE – SINGAPORE
10 – 11 September 2019

The focus of this Conference is to bring together leading experts, researchers and the most respected clinicians to exchange and share their meaningful experiences of various treatment procedures on Pediatrics and Neonatal Disorders, reducing the burden of Birth and Child Diseases around the globe.

Click here for more information.

RELEASE TOOLKIT – ‘TALKING THE TALK: LISTENING TO FAMILY STORIES – SUPPORTING CHILDREN TO PLAY AND LEARN’

The ‘Talking the Talk’ Toolkit is a resource developed by the Child Development Program, Children’s Health Queensland, in collaboration and consultation with health professionals, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and Indigenous services.

The resource aims to help professional and community health workers to establish engagement and connection with the families they serve. The toolkit provides a booklet with easy to follow steps that child’s strengths and challenges, as well as support care planning and promote children’s development through play and learning.

The booklet also provides development milestones (6 months to 5 years) as a guide to engage families’ awareness in their children’s development and progress. The toolkit also contains:

Five (5) posters (four (4) on developmental domains and one on ‘Create a healthy family plan’) that can be printed on A3 format and used as a general information in waiting areas or other gathering places.
Two (2) templates, aimed to facilitate engagement with the family in a non-confronting way. The ‘Child Development Summary’ – for gathering information by the health worker and ‘My Child’s Development Plan’ – for setting up a care plan in collaboration with the family. These templates can be photocopied as needed.

Downloaded versions of the Toolkit (booklet, posters and templates) can be found online – click here.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING TO SHAPE AUSTRALIA’S CHILD HEALTH POLICY!

Your input is greatly appreciated. The content of the draft Action Plan is complete and work to structure and prioritise activity is underway.

We understand the Department of Health will soon provide information in relation to future consultations. We will advise when the consultation is live and hope that you will take this opportunity to share your thoughts and ideas on how we can best support the health of Australia’s children.

Any questions that you may have, please click here to contact Aracy.

The Academy of Child and Adolescent Health (ACAH) is excited to host its 2019 Conference in Adelaide, South Australia at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, 17 to 19 October 2019.

The program will incorporate a wide range of sessions including indigenous and rural health, adolescent health and gender identity and global and refugee health.