Healthy Start
Healthy Start is a 3.5 year Australia-wide strategy to support parents with learning difficulties and promote a healthy start to life for their young children. Healthy Start is funded by the Australian Government's Early Childhood - Invest to Grow Initiative.
The strategy addresses the need identified by practitioners for access to evidence about what works in the area, for formal training, and for the opportunity to learn from others in the field.
Every Australian state and territory is taking part and adapting Healthy Start to suit existing programs and meet local needs. Networks throughout Australia and within each state and territory are made up of a growing system of Learning Hubs.
You can be involved with Healthy Start in a number of ways:
- To receive twice-yearly news updates, log on to the Healthy Start website and follow the link to join the Network.
- To become part of a Healthy Start Learning Hub: Visit Healthy Start website for more detail.
- Enquire with the Healthy Start Leader about eligibility for a scholarship to enrol in a six month online unit of study on parenting with learning difficulties through the University of Sydney.
Queensland contact
Louise Dwyer
- Position:
- Queensland Healthy Start Leader
- Telephone:
- (07) 3260 6243
- Email:
- louise@alinafamilies.org
Other contact
Healthy Start Project Team
- Telephone:
- (02) 9351 9510
- Email:
- healthystart@fhs.usyd.edu.au
Last updated: 02 July 2008.