Category Archives: Articles and papers

2012 AEDI results launched

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Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth Peter Garrett has launched the 2012 AEDI results, providing Australia with a second snapshot of children’s development.

The release of the second AEDI dataset, collected in 2012, reveals a positive change in the proportion of Australian children developmentally vulnerable on one or more domains (from 23.6 per cent to 22 per cent) when compared with the 2009 AEDI results.

In 2012, AEDI Checklists were completed on 289,973 children in their first year of full-time formal school. This rich set of publicly available data will help governments, communities and early childhood educators to build a picture of children’s development and provide an evidence base to support policy, activities and strategic direction.

Find out more about the 2012 AEDI results

Community Paediatric Review out now

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Community Paediatric Review is a national publication for child and family health nurses and other professionals by The Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health.

Vol 21 No.1 features articles on:

  • children’s temperament and parenting styles
  • forthcoming changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

 

Also included in this edition is:

  • a parent fact sheet on temperament
  • an information sheet on Remote Oral Care Pilot – Bupa Health Foundation Partnerships

 

Read the full issue | View previous editions

CCCH newsletter out now

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Children’s Health & Development is the new quarterly newsletter from The Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health, sharing news and updates on all the activities, events and research that make up the Centre’s work.

Discover the Let’s Read Early Literacy Campaign, a new film about benefits of the Linking Schools and Early Years approach, the Raising Children Network’s new mobile-optimised site, and more in our recently released first edition.

View the latest edition | Subscribe to Children’s Health & Development

New: LSEY Research Snapshot and video

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Research Snapshot

The fifth Linking Schools and Early Years (LSEY) research snapshot focuses on:

  • Building sustainability from the start
  • Core components
  • Sustainability indicators
  • Contributing factors
  • Policy, research and community implications

Read the snapshot here

Linking Schools and Early Years film

Linking Schools and Early Years: a community approach is a new short film that offers insight into the value and lasting benefits for children, families, educators and communities of place-based community partnership approaches.

Watch the film

 

Grow & Thrive out now!

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Grow & Thrive is a new online publication by the Centre for Community Child Health to support early years educators and school teachers working with young children – from infants to primary school-aged kids.

Edition Two – Sleep – has just been published.

Read it here.

Published quarterly, each edition of Grow & Thrive includes evidence-based articles, practical applications of early childhood research and information to share with parents.

Grow & Thrive is a must-read for:

  • Early childhood educators
  • Kindergarten and preschool teachers
  • Early childhood service providers (centre managers, coordinators)
  • School teachers
  • Early childhood researchers
  • Community child health professionals

 

For more information and to subscribe visit: www.rch.org.au/ccch/growthrive

 

New research snapshot now available

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The fourth Linking Schools and Early Years (LSEY) research snapshot focuses on:

  • Responsivness to individual children
  • Cumulative learning for children
  • Practice change in LSEY communities
  • Contributing activities
  • Policy, research and community implications

Read the snapshot here

The LSEY snapshot series aims to share findings from LSEY’s approach and activities. Findings are based on the experiences of three Victorian communities: Corio–Norlane in the City of Greater Geelong, Footscray in the City of Maribyrnong and Hastings in the Mornington Peninsula Shire.

Read more about LSEY at www.rch.org.au/lsey

 

New Linking Schools and Early Years Research Snapshot

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The LSEY Research Snapshots aim to share findings from LSEY’s approach and activities. Findings are based on the experiences of three Victorian communities: Corio-Norlane in the City of Greater Geelong, Footscray in the City of Maribyrnong and Hastings in the Mornington Peninsula.

Snapshot three – Engaging Families has just been published.

This time-limited series of snapshots will communicate evaluation findings and highlight examples of good practice from six years of community implementation.

The series will explore:

1. The LSEY approach

2. Supporting smooth transitions

3. Engaging families

4. Responsive schools

5. Sustainability

6. The final findings.

For more information about the LSEY project and to view Research Snapshots one and two see: www.rch.org.au/lsey

 

New research snapshot out now

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The second Linking Schools and Early Years (LSEY) research snapshot focuses on:

  • Place-based action for transition to school
  • Practice change in LSEY communities
  • Contributing activities
  • Implications for policy, research and communities

 

Read the snapshot here

The LSEY snapshot series aims to share findings from LSEY’s approach and activities. Findings are based on the experiences of three Victorian communities: Corio–Norlane in the City of Greater Geelong, Footscray in the City of Maribyrnong and Hastings in the Mornington Peninsula Shire.

Read more about LSEY at www.rch.org.au/lsey

 

Latest edition of Community Paediatric Review is now available

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This edition features articles on:

Community Paediatric Review

Community Paediatric Review Vol 20 No. 2 November 2012

  • Refugee families and the child and family health service
  • Food allergies – reducing the risk

Also included in this edition is:

  • A parent fact sheet on reducing the risk of developing food allergy
  • An information sheet on good mental health for mothers


Read the full issue here »

Community Paediatric Review (CPR) is a publication produced by the Centre for Community Child Health to support child and family health nurses in caring for children and their families through the provision of evidence-based information on current health issues.

Sign up to receive Community Paediatric Review online.

 

Grow & Thrive launches today!

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Grow & Thrive is a new online publication by the Centre for Community Child Health to support early years educators and school teachers working with young children – from infants to primary school-aged kids.

Read our launch edition -
Language and Literacy.

Published quarterly, each edition of Grow & Thrive will include evidence-based articles, practical applications of early childhood research and information to share with parents.

Grow & Thrive is a must-read for:

  • Early childhood educators
  • Kindergarten and preschool teachers
  • Early childhood service providers (centre managers, coordinators)
  • School teachers
  • Early childhood researchers
  • Community child health professionals

 

For more information and to subscribe visit: www.rch.org.au/ccch/growthrive