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What do students know about mental health and wellbeing?

What do students know about mental health and wellbeing?

26/05/2025

In 2023, the Mental Health in Primary Schools team conducted focus groups with 65 primary school students from 14 schools.

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Meaningful inclusion in Child and Family Hubs

Meaningful inclusion in Child and Family Hubs

02/06/2025

The National Child and Family Hubs Network has recently created a role focused on enabling children and families to be embedded within the Network.

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Partnering with Polyglot Theatre and Minderoo Foundation to test the Voice of the Child toolkit

Partnering with Polyglot Theatre and Minderoo Foundation to test the Voice of the Child toolkit

03/06/2025

This investment will support CCCH to refine the design and content of the toolkit and its capacity building materials.

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Making health care better for kids: listening to their voices

Making health care better for kids: listening to their voices

19/05/2025

We worked with with young patients, their parents, and their doctors and nurses to design the best way to incorporate child-friendly health questionnaires into appointments at The Royal Children’s Hospital.

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Focus groups with deaf and hard of hearing children

Focus groups with deaf and hard of hearing children

02/06/2025

For the June edition of our newsletter, we spoke to A/Prof Valerie Sung from the Centre’s Hearing Research team about her work engaging children who are deaf and hard of hearing.

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Integrated health and social care hubs to address adversities in Australian families

Integrated health and social care hubs to address adversities in Australian families

21/05/2025

The Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Childhood Adversity and Mental Health was awarded the 2025 VBHC Transformation Award in recognition of its exceptional work implementing Child and Family Hubs.

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