Sexual Assault and Young People: Current Issues and Debates www.rch.org.au/cah/forum Thursday 5th August 2010, 9.30 am – 1.30pm Ella Latham Theatre, Royal Children’s Hospital Sexual violence and young people is an issue that consistently receives much attention in the media and is a source of concern in the broader community. This half-day forum will provide a … Continued
Wondering about post graduate learning in 2011? The Centre Adolescent Health will be holding its annual information night on Thursday 26th August 2010 In the Ella Latham Theatre at the RCH, 5.30 – 7.30pm. Come along and listen to course lecturers and others discuss the various courses specialising in adolescence at the University of Melbourne as well … Continued
The Centre for Adolescent Health’s Dr Cathy Crock, will be studying patient and family centred care on her upcoming Churchill Fellowship trip to the USA & UK. Patient and family centred care is an approach to healthcare based on respect and dignity, open information sharing, collaboration and participation at every level between health professionals and patients … Continued
Youth at the Kids (Y@K) is the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Youth Advisory Council. Y@K is a group of young people aged between 11 and 25 who aim to make the RCH a better place. Y@K provides a voice for children and young people receiving health care at the RCH. Y@K provides a voice for … Continued
By Dr Joanne Williams PhD Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Adolescent Health. The Centre for Adolescent Health was commissioned to utilize data collected in the Healthy Neighbourhoods Project (HN) to write a report for the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) looking at alcohol and youth violence. The HN study was originally funded … Continued
Two prestigious Churchill Scholarships have been awarded to Centre for Adolescent Health staff in 2010. Dr Cathy Crock is about to leave on her travels overseas and will be examining consumer perspectives around health care. Dr Nola Firth is involved in innovative research to develop and trial school based resilience programs that assist adolescents who … Continued
The staff of the Young People’s Health Service, from the RCH, Centre for Health were with Professor Brian Burdekin at the Melbourne Town Hall on the 9 of March 2007. YPHS was in attendance for the launch of the February edition (Young Homeless People and their future). YPHS also launched their Public Safety DVD “Voices … Continued
Professor George Patton was speaking at the ministerial launch of Young Australians: their health and wellbeing 2007. He chaired the Advisory Committee to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare around the development of the report. The report brings together the best available current data on aspects of health and social development and is widely … Continued
Muliti-disciplinary research requires careful navigational skills, as Amy Nisselle and Rony Duncan explain. GRADUATE STUDIES It’s now more and more common for Masters and PhD students in Australia to undertake projects that cross fields of research. The problem is, multi-disciplinary research is a relatively new phenomenon. Students are often supervised by experts who did not … Continued
Global gains in infant and child survival have resulted in greater appreciation of the importance of taking the health and wellbeing of adolescents more seriously; the tremendous reduction in mortality globally in the 1-5 year age group has not been replicated to the same extent in 10-24 year olds. Furthermore, globalisation has changed the nature … Continued
