In the first few years, children’s development is rapid and they are constantly learning new skills. These new skills, knowledge and abilities affect their behaviour. Read our new editions of Community Paediatric Review and Grow & Thrive for tips on supporting children’s behaviour development.
Dr Jon Quach, a long-standing CCCH researcher, was recently awarded the Early Career Researcher prize at the Melbourne University Graduate School of Education.
As well as being a department of The Royal Children’s Hospital, the Centre for Community Child Health is a research department of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2016. To celebrate this significant milestone, MCRI has released Brilliant Minds as a snapshot of its researchers’ work.
In 2016, CCCH sent its largest cohort ever to the annual Pediatric Academic Societies meeting.
The early years are a unique opportunity to amplify outcomes for all children so that they can become healthy and contributing adults.
Starting school is a major milestone in a child’s life. Making that transition successfully has lasting implications for children’s academic and occupational success. Sadly, in Australia many children do not make a successful transition to school.
Learn how greater levels of community engagement can enhance the design and delivery of services. Read the report.
In an average school classroom, one out of every five children is likely to have some form of additional health and developmental need.
Professor Frank Oberklaid urges action to be taken to address the fact that one in five children start their school life developmentally vulnerable.
Director Frank Oberklaid addresses an Early Childhood Roundtable ahead of the release of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and Employment’s Report on the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2015.
