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CHW School-Link Brochure

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Guidelines on Pathways to Care

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.  

Excutive Summary

View the executive summary of the "Leading the Way in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability" needs analysis report here.

   

Behaviour Support in Schools

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.

 

 

Thursday
Dec132012

School-Link Annual Check-up

We would like to invite you to complete our CHW School-Link Annual Check-Up or end of year survey. There are only 9 quick (mostly check-list) questions for you to complete. This will give us an idea for improvements to the newsletter and ideas for training in 2013. Thankyou!

Thursday
Dec132012

Our Latest Newsletter 

The December 2012 edition of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s School-Link newsletter on mental health and intellectual disability in children and adolescents is now available. 
Highlights include:
Moving to Learn, Learning to Move: The importance of Motor Development in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability by Associate Professor Dr David Dossetor 
Interview with Professor Eric Emerson
The Medicine Cabinet: Mood Stabilisers by Judy Longworth
Report on the School-Link Group Stepping Stones Triple P Pilot with ADHC and Special Education Schools. 
Ruth Still’s reflections upon retirement
Conference reviews, upcoming training and much more.

 

Wednesday
Dec122012

Study into Respiratory Problems 

Do you care for someone with respiratory problems and using medication?

•15% of Australians with intellectual disability have asthma. 

• Do carers get the support they need to assist people with asthma?
• Researchers at Sydney University wish to interview family caregivers, direct healthcare workers and nurses who have cared for a person with intellectual disabilities who has asthma or uses inhalers.
Please see the flyer attached for further information or call Sharon Davis on 02 91141159 or 0411817299 for more information. 

 

 

Tuesday
Oct232012

Interview with Dr David Dossetor, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

In this Youtube clip David Dossetor (Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney) talks about psychiatric diagnoses and medication in an interdisciplinary context. Important in his view is to approach challenging behaviour from within a developmental framework. Interview by The Centre for Consultation and Expertise (CCE), Netherlands. 

Wednesday
Oct102012

School-Link Wins Mental Health Matters Award 

On 10th October 2012, The Minister for Mental Health The Honourable Kevin Humphries presented CHW School-Link with the Mental Health Matters Award for Cross Collaboration. The Awards were hosted by the NSW Mental Health Association and we congratulate all the winners of the day. All the winning submissions can be read here.