Healthy Young Families Project
Program Coordinator
: Position Vacant
P: 08 8971 9300 | E: N/A | M: N/A
Program Website - http://web.healthyyoungfamilies.com/
Healthy Young Families- A Brief Introduction
Auspiced by Katherine West Health Board, the Healthy Young Families (HYF) Project aims to provide consistent, accessible and culturally appropriate maternal and child health messages across the Katherine Region. Funded under FaHCSIA’s Katherine Region Communities for Children initiative, HYF proposes a health education model that revolves around evidence based content that is to be consistently used in a culturally safe manner- whether in a clinic or community setting. A key focus is to provide materials that can be constantly revised to ensure their relevance and promote best practice. This can be easily done using an electronic format. The initial stages of this project have involved extensive community and service provider consultation. All resources to be developed will be screened by either a Cultural Reference Group or another community based focus group to ensure their cultural relevance and safety.
Katherine Region Communities For Children Initiative
The Communities for Children initiative helps children aged 0-5 years to have the best possible start in life by providing practical assistance to their families and their communities. The initiative provides funding of $142 million over four years, under the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy, and is based on the principles of early intervention and prevention. Since April 2004, NGO's have been selected to implement Communities for Children in 45 sites across Australia.
Under Communities for Children, communities have the opportunity to implement national high-level policy outcomes locally in flexible and innovative ways that best reflect their circumstances. This model is based on a community development, rather than a service delivery approach, and incorporates key principles including sustainability, collaborative action, and community capacity building.