Click here to find out about the MHID Hub including forms.
Click here to find out about upcoming hub webinars or to access the recordings.
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Click here for a copy of our latest Journal Edition. Volume 15, Issue 1, 2025.
Download our latest CHW School-Link service brochure here:
A guide for parents and carers: Guidelines on Pathways to Care for children and adolescents with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour and/or mental health problems.
View the executive summary of the "Leading the Way in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability" needs analysis report here.
View the 2017 Obudsman Inquiry into behaviour management in schools. This report focuses on issues concerning students with complex needs and challenging behaviour. The report discusses the difficult challenges that schools face, but also draws attention to reasonable steps that can and should be taken to meet the learning and support needs of students, within a framework of best practice and evidence-based behaviour support.
Monday, November 19, 2018 at 4:39PM
The Annual PsychDD Conference is on the 23 November 2018, in Parramatta. Registrations are still open and the conference timetable has just been released. The conference is open to psychologists, educators and other allied health professionals. There is also a special student rate of only $70. To register go to:
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 7:29PM 
Mental Health Month is celebrated each year in the month of October in NSW. This awareness month encourages all of us to think about our mental health and wellbeing, regardless of whether we may have a lived experience of mental illness or not. This month also gives us the opportunity to understand the importance of mental health in our everyday lives and encourages help seeking behaviours when needed.
This year the theme for Mental Health Month is Share the Journey. Click here for our Share the Journey Classroom Activity. Don’t forget to send in a photo of your displays to win some chocolates and a mini bandaged bear! Email us at schoollink@chw.edu.au.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 7:27PM Click here to view our latest email link to readings, resources and training that will help support you and other professionals working with children and young people with intellectual or developmental disability and mental health issues. As our MHCAIDD journal is bi-annual, a short email with current information between editions is planned for further information sharing. We hope you enjoy this format as much as the journal.
Monday, August 13, 2018 at 11:11AM 
In response to the ongoing challenges people are facing with the NDIS, DA NSW have developed two very useful recourses for people who need help with reviewing NDIS decisions in relation to Plans and Access.
1. NDIS Help – Not enough support in your child's plan
2. NDIS Help – I can’t access the NDIS
DA NSW also have a team of NDIS Appeals Officers who are available to provide free independent support throughout the review process for people in the Penrith, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains and Lithgow LGA’s.
Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 9:52PM 
Highlights include:
• Behavioural Phenotypes: The changing role of the neurodevelopmental psychiatrist; genetic simplification only serves to illuminate complexity by Associate Professor David Dossetor and Dr Deepa Singhal
• The Children's Hospital at Westmead School-Link Satisfaction Survey results 2017/8 by Kim Eisler
• The Medicine Cabinet: Guanfacine by Judy Longworth
• Interview with Barbara Lewis, Manager of the Carer Support Service at the Royal North Shore Hospital
•Conference Review: European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability 2017, Luxembourg by David Dossetor
• Readings and Resources