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Allied to Issue 114

October 2018 kids

Inside this edition

Camp Go Ahead 2018 1 Child Focused Practice & What are Child Rights?

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Royal Far West’s Trauma Informed Practice Journey 2-3 2018 NSW Health Awards Finalists 8-9

About Royal Far West 4 Patients with Disability and the NDIS 9

Orthopaedic Screening Clinic at Sydney Children’s

Hospital 4 To Tweet or Not to Tweet 9

Become an Allied Health Rural Generalist - 2019 Intake Opens Soon

4 Allied Health Educator Contact Details 10

Queensland Health - Deadly Ears Program 5 Allied Health Telehealth Virtual Education 10

Consultation on Draft Sudden Unexplained Death in Infancy Policy

5 Tertiary Children’s Hospitals Grand Rounds 11

SWAP-It Launched: Healthy Lunchbox App to Support Parents

6 Save the Date 12

Helping Someone at Risk of Suicide 6 Workshops/Webinars 12-16

Camp Go Ahead 2018

Camp Go Ahead (CGA) is a joint initiative of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (Randwick and Westmead) which has been running since 1992. It is an annual camp provided for children and young people, aged 11-17 years, who have sustained a brain injury. Camp participants come from all over NSW and have a range of acquired and traumatic brain injuries which may be as a result of an accident, illness or trauma.

This year saw CGA held once again at Point Wolstoncroft Sport and Recreation Centre, on beautiful Lake Macquarie. With thanks to the camp staff, hospital staff and volunteers, it was a wonderful success and a credit to all those involved! 40 enthusiastic participants attended for three days/two nights. They had the opportunity to participate in physically and mentally challenging activities such as the giant swing, rock climbing, kayaking, fishing, and archery. Designated free time was spent playing football, soccer, volleyball, basketball, ping-pong, board games and cards. Many campers and staff also took the opportunity to relax and soak up the beautiful location, taking photographs and chatting whilst looking out at the lake.

Participants also had the opportunity to experience the skilful challenge and fun of wheelchair basketball. Campers enthusiastically formed teams and competed against each other. A huge thankyou to the team from Wheelchair Sports NSW for providing the expertise, education, equipment and enthusiasm for this activity!

This year the formal night time activities were all about socialising. Structured bush dancing was led by the return of the band “Bush Muso Collective”, and campers enthusiastically took to the floor to learn and participate in the dances. The following night was spent relaxing on beanbags, munching on popcorn and watching a movie where campers had the opportunity to recover from all the day time activities. Thankyou Outdoor Movie Events.

Overall, all participants should be commended on their enthusiasm, willingness to try new things, support of each other, and ability to make new friends. Camp Go Ahead could not continue each year without the generous support of everyone involved and the donations received - thankyou!

Written by: Kylie French, Clinical Coordinator Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, Rehab2Kids

Royal Far West’s Trauma Informed Practice Journey:

Applying the learnings from Australian Childhood Trauma Conference 2016 Article by Verity Ashover, Social Worker and Dagney Hopp, Occupational Therapist, Royal Far West

Royal Far West (RFW) is a not-for-profit which has been providing health, medical and education services to children from rural and remote Australia for 94 years. Today, RFW’s integrated health, education and disability services for children aged 0-12 years are delivered through a combination of on-site, Telecare (aka Telehealth) and in-community programs across Australia. Approximately 30% of the children we work with are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and RFW sees firsthand the need for improved access to culturally appropriate allied health services in rural and remote areas.

With an increasing number of complex families accessing RFW services, the organisation formally adopted trauma-informed practice by including it as a priority in the 2016-2020 Strategic Plan and in the professional development plans of staff.

A group of RFW clinicians attended the 2016 2nd

Biannual Childhood Trauma Conference in Melbourne, hearing the Indigenous perspective from Michael Yellowbird and Judy Atkinson. The team also heard from Stephen Porges regarding the Polyvagal Theory, Pat Ogden’s sensory approach to psychotherapy and Vittorio Gallese’s research on the mirror response. The RFW team were inspired by examples of research being put in practice, and the outcomes being achieved.

With trauma-informed practice firmly in the Strategic Plan, and inspiration from the conference, RFW’s Trauma-Informed Working Party was born. The learnings helped to reinforce the work staff were doing in professional education, redesign of RFW services, as well as informing the design of the new RFW building due for completion at the end of 2018.

The success of any initiative to improve child outcomes in Indigenous communities requires that it be co-owned and co-designed with the community. RFW has a significant track record of being engaged by rural and remote communities to enhance their access to specialist child developmental, behavioural and mental health support services. This has included, among others, memorandums of understanding with the Wagga Wagga Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) and the Bourke Justice Reinvest program, to deliver screening, assessment, therapy and school and other service capacity strengthening for identified community priorities. These partnerships have included a mix of supports delivered via telehealth and in-person.

RFW uses evidence-based and evidence-informed approaches to service innovation, coupled with service evaluation and design, and considers a wide range of sectors in service delivery, including out of home care, education and mental health. Multi-disciplinary medical and allied health teams based in Manly, Sydney, are able to conduct therapy sessions with children in rural and remote communities all over Australia and use regular case conferences to ensure children’s multi-faceted needs are met.

Staff learnings from the Childhood Trauma Conference helped to shape work with a remote, largely Aboriginal community in the West Kimberley region of WA. Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre (MWRC) in Fitzroy Crossing, had approached RFW in 2015. MWRC knew that their community was experiencing intergenerational trauma and there were many developmental vulnerabilities in their children, including a high prevalence of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). However, their remoteness meant access to service support and treatment was very difficult. A team from RFW was invited to Fitzroy Crossing, with the emphasis of the first visits being relationship building, listening to stories and immersion in the community. Judy Atkinson had spoken at the Childhood Trauma Conference of the importance of listening: listening to stories, yarning and most importantly, hearing what people want to tell say rather what others wanted to hear; “Dadirri” the process of ‘listening to one another in contemplative and reciprocal relationships’.

The stories of the people in this community were both terribly sad and incredibly inspiring. Many stories of children taken from their families in the Stolen Generation, many stories of children abandoned by their families in fear for being ‘too white’ and attracting the attention of the Kartiya (whitefellas) to their tribe, stories of children walking hundreds of kilometres home. Too many stories of sorry business, including for children as young as 10 committing suicide and deaths from alcohol related accidents or violence.

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Royal Far West’s Trauma Informed Practice Journey continued

Safety, security and access to therapeutic inputs was a common theme. In October 2017 MWRC and RFW hosted a camp for families who accessed the MWRC service. The camp was held in a fit for purpose facility in Broome, right on Cable Beach. The most powerful therapy was the down time for the families to be in a safe space for a week without the presence of violence, drug or alcohol use or humbugging (community members asking for food or money).

They were given access to a Speech Pathologist, looking at language development through play, and an Occupational Therapist whose capacity strengthening and direct therapy were informed directly by Stephen Porges’ work on Polyvagal Theory.

The Social Worker and Speech Pathologist also held informal sessions with the mothers where themes around parenting were discussed. At the Childhood Trauma Conference, Judy Atkinson had talked about the value of keeping hands busy to facilitate talking and listening, so the team set up a canvas in the middle and the mothers painted as they talked. This sharing of experiences developed into three themes:

Rock: we are our children’s rock, but sometimes rocks can be a barrier and there are things that get in the way of being our best self

Baby: what do we need to know about our developing children and when should we ask for help

Crocodile: We can be the mean, snappy, harsh saltwater crocodile or the strong, kind freshwater crocodile.

These shared experiences have helped RFW to build trust and open the door to a relationship over distance. Using video link-ups, capacity strengthening sessions have already started to be delivered to the Yiyili Aboriginal Community School. The teachers and Aboriginal staff have all had sessions from the Occupational Therapist about regulation and safety, and from the Speech Pathologist about language and speech sound development.

Hearing from the professionals at the Childhood Trauma Conference was immensely helpful in giving RFW a trauma-informed framework which was readily put into practice at the camp and in the community. The people of Fitzroy Crossing have been incredibly engaged and generous in sharing their knowledge so that RFW can fill the framework and pilot new practices. The expectation is that together they can develop proven community-led model that works for remote Indigenous communities across Australia.

Mararra-U

A Bunuba word meaning: To embrace and adopt with love and care

About the Authors

Verity Ashover is a Social Worker, who works for Royal Far West, a not for profit service working with children and families from rural and remote areas across Australia. She works with parents to find their strengths and build strong relationships with their children. She has a strong emphasis in building parent capacity through supportive parenting practices.

Dagney Hopp is an Occupational Therapist, who works for Royal Far West, a not for profit service working with children and families from rural and remote areas across Australia. She works to strengthen kids’ ability to play, learn and feel happy and safe. She works with children and families face-to-face and via telecare and has authored and delivered numerous capacity building seminars for teachers and professionals.

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About Royal Far West

In 2017 RFW launched The Invisible Children Report which highlights that children experiencing disadvantage are more likely to start school developmentally delayed, which can set a trajectory for poorer outcomes in life and continue a cycle of disadvantage, including poorer mental health later in life. Currently RFW provides services to approximately 5,500 children, families and teachers each year, with plans to scale to 15,000 by 2020. Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data analysis identifies that one in five children are developmentally vulnerable on one or more domains and one in 10 children are developmentally vulnerable on two or more domains. This rate translates to approximately 330,539 and 171,031 children respectively across regional Australia.

RFW’s 2018 pre-budget submission advocates for policy and budget attention to rural and remote mental health, telecare and associated Medicare rebates. Alongside other recommendations for reducing developmental vulnerability RFW have outlined scalable technology models to Close the Gap in very remote Aboriginal communities through clever partnerships and telehealth.

RFW believes that if its services can be deployed successfully in the hardest to reach communities, these new service models could be put into practice more widely, and reach thousands of children across the country.

Orthopaedic Screening Clinic at Sydney Children’s Hospital

Over the past 5 years, referrals to the orthopaedic outpatient clinics at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick have increased by 45% with no increase in resources. This has resulted in referrals for non-urgent problems such as flat feet, pigeon toes and knock knees waiting for up to six months before an appointment is offered.

In response to this issue the Orthopaedic Screening Clinic has been established. Patients with non-urgent problems are now able to be reviewed by a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in the dedicated Clinic.

Referral to the Orthopaedic Screening Clinic needs to come from a doctor to the Sydney Children’s Hospital outpatient department. All referrals are reviewed weekly. The Orthopaedic Screening Clinic runs weekly, concurrent with the orthopaedic clinic of Dr Arnold Suzuki. Any urgent medical issues are reviewed by Dr Suzuki at the same time.

The Orthopaedic Screening Clinic has been running most of this year. A very high level of satisfaction from both patients and referring doctors has been reported.

For further information on the Orthopaedic Screening Clinic, please call Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick on 9382 1111.

Written by: Kerrie Amy, Orthopaedic Physiotherapist, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick

Become an Allied Health Rural Generalist - 2019 Intake Opens Soon

Early carer professionals who seek to meet the needs of rural and remote communities are often challenged by their scope of practice and experience. James Cook University understands these challenges and in collaboration with the Queensland University of Technology has developed a work-integrated development program for early career allied health professionals. The Rural Generalist Program is modular, tailored to your specific needs and can be completed in 12 - 24 months at your pace.

The program is available to the following professionals working in a rural or remote health setting:

Nutritionist/Dietitian

Occupational Therapist

Pharmacist

Physiotherapist

Podiatrist

Radiographer

Speech Pathologist

Further information is available at https://www.jcu.edu.au/division-of-tropical-health-and-medicine/research/rural-generalist-program-rgp.

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Queensland Health - Deadly Ears Program

The Deadly Ears program leads Queensland Health’s response to reducing the rates and impact of middle ear disease and conductive hearing loss for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander children across Queensland.

The online collection includes:

Resources made specifically for the Deadly Ears program

Links to resources made by other organisations.

The resources are divided by audience type:

Children

Health professionals

Educators

Indigenous community members.

Resources include posters, fact sheets, brochures and videos such as:

Deadly Ears Help Bubba Yarn, Learn and Play - this video was developed in partnership with Woorabinda community and discusses why ears are important, what to look out for and shares some personal reflections from members of the community.

Deadly Kids Can Listen and Learn - is a training package for teachers developed by the Queensland Education Department. The course is intended to help teachers support better learning outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander children who experience conductive hearing loss as a result of otitis media.

Look after kids ears - this website contains a range of videos about hearing loss and its effect on families. The website provides information about middle ear disease and listening problems common in Indigenous children and adults.

For further information visit the Deadly Ears program website at https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/chq/our-services/community-health-services/deadly-ears/resources/.

Consultation on Draft Sudden Unexplained Death in Infancy Policy

The NSW Ministry of Health is convening a small working group to consult on a draft state-wide policy for Management of Sudden Unexplained Death in Infancy (SUDI). There has been a significant amount of work done in recent years on management of SUDI and the intent is to collect all of this work and put it into an easily accessible state-wide guideline. Drivers for development of the policy have come from the NSW Ombudsman’s Child Death Review Team reports 2015 and 2016/17 and the SUDI cross agency working group recently convened by the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

The objectives of the working group will be to:

1. Review current management of SUDI 2. Define areas of best practice to incorporate into the policy 3. Participate in and contribute to the review process of the draft policy

The commitment will be two meetings over a one - two month timeframe. The Ministry is seeking representation including ED consultants, ED NUM/NM, ED CNC/NE, ED CNS/RN, ED registrars. They are also seeking paediatric and allied health representatives. A mix of metropolitan and rural representatives is required.

If this is of interest to you, please email Brendon.Zeman@health.nsw.gov.au by 11 October 2018. Your email should include what position you hold and why this policy matters to you. All expressions of interest received will be sent to the Ministry of Health for consideration.

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Helping Someone at Risk of Suicide

Are you concerned that someone close to you is considering taking their own life? Would you like to know how to help keep them safe?

This pamphlet has been produced by Mental Health in Multicultural Australia and focuses on what you can do to help someone that is at risk of suicide. It is available for download in 22 languages (including English) from the Health Translations website at http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcht.nsf/PresentDetail?Open&s=Helping_someone_at_risk_of_suicide.

The Health Translations website contains over 17, 500 multilingual resources that are regularly checked to ensure quality and accuracy. The website includes an easy to use search function that allows health practitioners and organisations who work with culturally and linguistically diverse communities to search for reliable translated health information.

The website also includes a unique tool that health professionals can use to identify which language they speak. Further information on this tool is available at http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcht.nsf/pages/find_your_language.

SWAP-It Launched: Healthy Lunchbox App to Support Parents

Clinical Research Fellow Associate Professor Luke Wolfenden and the Hunter New England Local Health District Population Health team recently launched their latest project to improve healthy eating in school children, through an app-based parent support program.

‘Swap What’s Packed in the lunchbox: SWAP-It’ kicked off at New Lambton Heights Infants School on Thursday 20 September, with the support of the University of Newcastle and nib Foundation. Over the next three years, nib Foundation will provide $500,000 to fund the program.

Associate Professor Wolfenden reported that SWAP-It aims to address the nutritional intake of children and prevent unhealthy weight gain in childhood.

The program is a solution to the challenge of reaching, engaging and changing the behaviours of parents who are packing the lunches of primary-aged school children. The research team has established a partnership with the leading national provider of school-parent communication app ‘Skoolbag’ to develop and integrate the lunchbox program within the app.

The program includes three components: SWAP-It nutrition guidelines; weekly support messages via push notifications; and resources such as hyperlinks to useful information, lunchbox planners and shopping lists as visual prompts to pack healthy lunchbox foods at home.

SWAP-It will be delivered to 150 primary schools across the Hunter New England region, directly benefitting approximately 75,000 students and 60,000 families over a three year period.

Originally published in Hunter New England Local Health District CE News.

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Child-Focused Practice & What are Child Rights?

We can all agree that we have a professional and ethical role to play in working effectively with children and young people and their parents and caregivers. This role is counter-balanced with the responsibility of acting on our concerns for the safety, welfare and well-being of a child or young person.

Ask yourself the following questions:

How can we as health workers who only see adult clients practice being child-focused?

How do you practice being child-focused in your everyday work practice?

Some things to consider:

The concept of being child-focused means placing the child or young person at the centre of our decision-making, e.g. What is best for them? What will keep them safe?

The needs and wants of the parent/carer are secondary to the child/young person.

Sometimes being child-focused may mean that a health worker has to go against what the child wants or wishes for, in order to reduce risks to their safety or wellbeing.

Children and young people should (where possible) have an opportunity to say what they would like to happen.

Every child/young person is an individual and will want different things.

People who work predominantly in adult-focused services must consider the impact of the adult’s capacity and/or decisions for the children/young people in their care.

Always ask if the adult is responsible for providing care to children and young people.

Child-focused practice is guided by the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Further information is available from https://www.unicef.org/crc/. As a signatory of the CRC, Australia has a responsibility to protect children, provide services necessary for them to develop and achieve positive outcomes, and enable them to participate in the wider community. The Rights of the Child recognises that children have the same basic rights as adults, while also needing special protection due to their vulnerability.

To view a child friendly video about ‘What are Child Rights?’ go to https://youtu.be/V1BFLitBkco.

Resources and posters are available from:

Child friendly version of the UN Convention on the rights of the Child: https://www.unicef.org.au/Upload/UNICEF/Media/Our%20work/childfriendlycrc.pdf.

Further information on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is available at: https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx.

A poster of the Rights of Every Child in Health Care is available at: http://www.hnekidshealth.nsw.gov.au/client_images/1369079.pdf.

A poster of Young People’s Healthcare Rights is available at: http://www.hnekidshealth.nsw.gov.au/client_images/1369080.pdf.

Information compiled for National Child Protection Week by Darrell Halim, Senior Clinician Child Protection Social Worker, The Maitland Hospital.

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2018 NSW Health Award Finalists

Last month the finalists for the 20th annual NSW Health Awards were announced. The Awards recognise innovation and excellence in the delivery of health programs and services to the NSW community throughout the public health system. Numerous finalists had undertaken initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes for children and young people, including the following examples.

Eggspectation, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network aimed at establishing an integrated oncofertility service providing equitable and timely oncofertility care. The team developed the first public oncofertility service driven by consumer targeted initiatives.

The team has successfully developed and lead a change in practice giving all NSW adolescent and young adult cancer patients equitable and timely access to oncofertility care.

Healthy Food in Childcare - An Online Solution, Hunter New England LHD Approximately 22% of children aged 5 - 17 in NSW are overweight or obese (NSW Health, 2013) and less than 5% of childcare centres in NSW meet nutrition guidelines (Yoong 2014). This initiative aimed to improve young children’s diets by supporting childcare services to provide meals consistent with dietary guidelines.

A high-intensity dietitian support program was effective in improving provision of healthier foods and children’s diets. However, high delivery costs limited its ability to be delivered at scale. To ensure that all children in care have access to healthy foods, an online menu-planning program was developed which has been effective in supporting planning of healthier menus and improving children’s diets.

The free program has been disseminated nationally, with over 1800 services (400 in NSW) accessing it.

South Eastern Sydney Mental Health First Aid Youth Program, South Eastern Sydney LHD The Mental Health First Aid Youth Program aimed at integrating Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) into the everyday business of agencies by training community members to become mental health champions to achieve better outcomes for vulnerable youth.

As a result, 350 'champions' (teachers, coaches, youth workers etc) were trained in MHFA by instructors from partner organisations. Evaluation indicates a significant increase in 'champion' confidence and skills to support vulnerable youth, with many population groups most at risk reached.

Domestic Violence Routine Screening in Paediatrics, Sydney LHD The team aimed to routinely screen eligible mothers/female carers for domestic violence (DV) at the Children’s Ward at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Utilising improvement science, drivers for practice improvement were identified. The program has three essential elements - education, screening and a response pathway, including social work intervention and/or legal response through the Health Justice Partnership.

In the first 46 weeks, 557 screens were completed. There were 22 disclosures of DV - a rate of 4%. All were offered support and free legal advice through the Health Justice Partnership. This has been a valuable program that improves patient safety and facilitates access to specialist support.

Improving Oral Health Care for Aboriginal Children, South Western Sydney LHD Aboriginal children have high prevalence of dental decay with many requiring hospitalisation for treatment. Compounding the situation is the limited oral health awareness among Aboriginal families and access to dental services. To address these issues, partnerships were formed between South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), Western Sydney University/University of NSW and Aboriginal organisations (KARI/Tharawal AMS) to raise oral health awareness among Aboriginal children through field/case workers, culturally-sensitive oral health promotional material and dental referral pathways to SWSLHD.

To date, there has been a 41% increase in the number of parents receiving information about childhood oral health and 20% improvement in their oral health knowledge. Further, 211 Aboriginal children accessed SWSLHD to receive oral assessment (66%), restorative work for dental decay (15%) and preventative treatment to minimise future dental decay (58%).

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2018 NSW Health Award Finalists continued

Coming to our Senses, The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network Minimising the use of seclusion and restraint practice for adolescents in mental health inpatient units through early de-escalation is a priority for safe care.

The Saunders Unit at Sydney Children’s Hospital (SCH), Randwick, identified the need for a Sensory Room to offer early time-out to our young people when they are distressed, giving patients and staff a safe and healthy environment. The room empowers our inpatients to de-escalate and/or self-soothe safely.

Adapted Experience-based Co-Design was used to bring inpatients together with hospital staff to design and paint a mural in the sensory room, and to share their collaborative experience. This change was part of an overall strategy to reduce the likelihood of seclusion and restraint practice.

Cherishing Children with Heart Disease, The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network In 2010, the team established Australia’s first integrated mental health service dedicated to childhood heart disease (CHD). The program transformed mental health outcomes for children and families, and inspired a service-wide culture of psychologically-informed paediatric cardiac care. Results include:

Increased mental health referrals across SCHN Cardiac Services from 2 per year in 2009, to over 10 per week in 2018

Demonstrated the efficacy of a range of psychological interventions

Increased capacity from 1 psychologist in 2010, to 10 psychologists in 6 paediatric heart centres across ANZ in 2018

Developed one of the world’s largest mental health datasets in CHD

Congratulations to all of the finalists. Recipients of the 2018 NSW Health Awards will be announced on 5 November 2018. Further information can be found on the NSW Health website.

Patients with Disability and the NDIS

The Council for Intellectual Disability have created a flowchart to assist GPs and health professionals determine the eligibility of their patients for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The flowchart includes a wealth of information on the National Disability Insurance Agency and the NDIS application process.

Patients may find it useful to download the flowchart to take to their appointment with their GP along with their My Health Matters folder.

The flowchart can be downloaded from http://www.nswcid.org.au/images/My_Health_Matters/Patients-with-a-disability-and-the-NDIS---by-CID.PDF.

To Tweet or not to Tweet

This section will be a regular inclusion of the Allied to Kids newsletter and will spotlight relevant Twitter accounts for allied health professionals.

Alliedtokids@Alliedtokids - Allied to Kids (A2K) aims to provide education, support and clinical resources to Allied Health professionals working with children across NSW. The A2K Twitter feed will promote upcoming Allied Health Telehealth Virtual Education (AHTVE) sessions and relevant resources.

SARRAH@SARRAHealth - SARRAH exists so that rural and remote Australian communities have equitable access to allied health services that support health and well-being. The SARRAH Twitter feed will promote information and resources relevant particularly to allied health professionals working in rural and/or remote areas.

Jenny Nicol/Lisa Hanley Allied Health Educator, Southern Region Phone: 02 9382 4471 / 0434 565 733

Email: Jennifer.Nicol@health.nsw.gov.au Lisa.Hanley@health.nsw.gov.au

Sonia Hughes Allied Health Educator, Northern Region

Phone: 0423 823 633 Email: Sonia.Hughes@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au

Carmel Blayden Allied Health Educator, Western Region

Phone: 6369 8120

Email: Carmel.Blayden@health.nsw.gov.au

For more details about any of the information included in this newsletter, or if you have something you would like included in a future edition, please contact one of us.

Allied to Kids Allied health education and clinical support

Submissions for Future Editions of Allied to Kids

Let us know about your workshops, new programs, events, research or positions vacant. Clinical articles need to be evidence based with a relevant (albeit short) reference list. Submissions can be sent to any of the Allied Health Educators (email details are listed above) and need to be received no later than the 25

th

of each month to ensure inclusion in the following month’s edition. Remember, Allied to Kids is a newsletter for allied health professionals by allied health professionals.

Please note the inclusion of event/resource details in this newsletter does not constitute endorsement by the NSW Children’s Healthcare Network. Individuals are responsible for determining the credentials of events/resources in line with their own professional standards.

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Further details regarding Allied to Kids is available at the

Allied to Kids website:

http://www.nchn.org.au/a2k/index.html.

Children’s Healthcare Network

Allied Health Telehealth Virtual Education Available to allied health professionals who provide services

through NSW/ACT Health

The 2018 Allied Health Telehealth Virtual Education program incorporates a range of virtual education technologies such as videoconferencing, webinars/webconferences via WebEx, and pre-recorded sessions. Upcoming Sessions:

Most sessions are recorded and available for viewing online. Please visit the Allied to Kids website http://www.nchn.org.au/a2k/index.html for details of the 2018 calendar, latest updates and to view earlier sessions.

Tentative dates for 2019 are also now available on the website:

19/2, 5/3, 19/3, 2/4, 30/4, 14/5, 28/5, 11/6, 25/6, 30/7, 13/8, 27/8, 10/9, 24/9, 15/10, 29/10, 12/11 & 26/11

The 2019 calendar will be updated as sessions are locked in. If you would like to present a session in 2019, or can suggest a presenter, please contact one of the Allied Health Educators (details at the top of this page).

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16 October Paediatric Oral Nutrition Initiative (PONi)

Josie Grenfell, Senior Dietitian and Jo Barraclough, Dietitian, Queanbeyan Hospital

30 October Executive Function Disorders Louise Parry and Gabrielle Brawn Clinical Psychologists, Sydney Children’s Hospital

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Tertiary Children’s Hospitals Grand Rounds Available to allied health professionals who provide services through NSW Health

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) Grand Rounds

The CHW Grand Rounds Education Program is held each Thursday from 1:00 - 2:00pm. Upcoming sessions:

For information contact SCHN-Education (CHW) SCHN-Education@health.nsw.gov.au or fraamer.saguiguit@health.nsw.gov.au. Previous CHW Grand Rounds sessions are available for viewing at: http://elearning.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/host/index.php.

John Hunter Children’s Hospital (JHCH) Paediatric Grand Rounds

The JHCH Paediatric Grand Rounds Education Program is held each Tuesday from 1:00 - 2:00pm. Upcoming session topics include (more specific details are released one week prior to the session):

For instructions on how to view these sessions please email Sonia.Hughes@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au.

Sydney Children's Hospital (SCH) Grand Rounds

The SCH Grand Rounds Education Program is held each Wednesday from 1:00 - 2:00pm. Upcoming sessions:

For information on how to view sessions contact SCH Education Administration on 02 9382 5409.

10 October Achieving more than cure

17 October The Toyota Cystic Fibrosis Nutrition Project

24 October Dermatology - To be advised

31 October The First 700 Clinical Exomes at the Randwick Genomic Facility: outcomes and recommendations

16 October Haematology/Oncology

23 October Dermatology

30 October Community

11 October Simulation Centre Clinical Governance Unit

18 October Information not available at time of going to print

25 October Information not available at time of going to print

Research

Improving Health Outcomes of Severely Injured Children

A group of NSW and interstate clinical experts has completed a review of the initial management of 490 critically injured children treated in NSW as part of an NHMRC Partnership (GNT 1092499). Twenty-seven areas for change were identified. Some of these changes have already occurred (change in pre-hospital airway equipment and triage protocols) however further information is required to prioritise the remaining recommendations.

This study will involve the completion of two online anonymous surveys to rank the suitability and importance of each of the remaining 25 recommendations. Some of the recommendations are controversial, but are based on fact. The initial survey is available at https://redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=XEPKJK3CHH and should take approximately 25 - 30 minutes to complete. The survey will close on Monday 5 November 2018. Difficulties accessing the survey should be reported to Belinda Kennedy at Belinda.Kennedy@sydney.edu.au.

Further information and a detailed study information sheet is available from Professor Kate Curtis at Kate.Curtis@sydney.edu.au.

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Conferences/Workshops/Webinars

Save the Date

Neuromuscular Workshop

21 November 2018

Centenary Hospital for Women and Children, ACT

This workshop is aimed at Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists who work with children and young people with neuromuscular conditions such as muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, peripheral neuropathy and myotonic dystrophy. Key topics of focus will include current clinical guidelines, early identification of neuromuscular conditions in clinical practice and treatment and management strategies.

For further information or to receive updates including the full workshop program, please provide contact details to Julia Simpson at Julia.Simpson@health.nsw.gov.au.

Physios Think Kids and Paediatric Bone and Mineral Days

12 - 13 October 2018

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW

Physios Think Kids is a full day of interactive lectures focusing on paediatric orthopaedic conditions and management. The day is for both beginner and experienced paediatric physiotherapists.

Paediatric Bone and Mineral Day is an education day on Paediatric Bone and Mineral Disorders including a series of lectures and expert panels.

Course Enquiries:

Meghan Hutchence (Physios Think Kids) Meghan.Hutchence@health.nsw.gov.au or Christie-Lee Wall (Bone Education Day) ChristieLee.Mcginlay@health.nsw.gov.au.

Speech Pathology Foundations for Paediatric Feeding 2018

18 - 19 October 2018

Rydges Hotel Parramatta, NSW

This 2-day workshop will focus on providing foundational knowledge with practical support regarding the assessment and management of children with feeding difficulties. The target audience for the workshop is speech pathologists working in hospitals or in community settings who are new to or less experienced in working with children with feeding difficulties. In addition, the workshop may suit more senior clinicians who would like to consolidate their foundational knowledge and skills with this client group.

Cost: NSW Health employees $275 including GST

Non-Health employees $325 including GST

Registration: https://www.trybooking.com/393356

Registrations will close 10 October 2018

Enquiries to: Allied Health Educators, Children’s Healthcare Network

Jenny Nicol, Jennifer.Nicol@health.nsw.gov.au

Sonia Hughes, Sonia.Hughes@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au.

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HNEkidshealth 2018 Conference “Connections: Join the Dots…”

1 - 2 November 2018

Rydges Newcastle, NSW

Connecting with families and the teams we work with helps ensure the best outcomes for children and young people. The HNEkidshealth 2018 Conference promises to bring together local and interstate presenters on topics covering child development, acute care, ethics, community child and youth health and chronic and complex care.

Key note speaker is international speaker and medical doctor Dr Helena Popovic.

If you work in general practice, nursing, allied health, acute care, community care, this conference will offer an inspiring dialogue of conversation.

For further information visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/hnekidshealth-conference-2018-registration-47412852117.

VPI Update Seminar VIII

19 - 20 November 2018

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW

The VPI Update seminar is a very popular and exciting two-day professional development event designed specifically for Speech Pathologists. In previous years, Speech Pathologists have attended the seminar from all over Sydney and regional NSW. In an effort to make the seminar accessible to as many Speech Pathologists as possible the VPI Update Seminar will be presented at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead with live videoconference sites to regional sites across NSW.

Registrations will open on 15 October 2018. For further information or enquiries please contact David Fitzsimons on 9845 2079 or via email at David.Fitzsimons@health.nsw.gov.au.

App Workshop Series for Front Line Staff - NSW Health

15 November 2018 - Camperdown, NSW

29 November 2018 - Camperdown, NSW

7 December 2018 - Camperdown, NSW

Medical App development in the health sector is rapidly growing. For this reason, the NSW Innovation Network has established a short series of specialist workshops to increase understanding of App development and the legal and technical requirements fro frontline staff. The three part series will provide staff with knowledge of the App life cycle, governance requirements, medico-legal responsibilities, ICT considerations, sustainability, commercialisation and expert advise regarding their innovation.

For further information contact Dan Shaw on 02 9540 7020 or email Daniel.Shaw@health.nsw.gov.au. To register visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/appworkshopseries.

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Rehabilitation in the 21st Century - Call for abstracts

14 December 2018

Liverpool Hospital, NSW

The 2nd Rehabilitation Conference by the Ingham Institute and the South Western Sydney Local Health District will showcase the latest in technology and innovation in rehabilitation. International and national speakers will address the conference theme, with a particular focus on neurological and physical rehabilitation. The program will appeal to a wide range of staff including medical, nursing, allied health and research personnel. rehab21.inghaminstitute.org.au

For more information about this event please contact Dr Joanna Kidd on joanna.kidd@sydney.edu.au or visit the website at https://inghaminstitute.org.au/rehabin21stcentury/.

Statistics survival guide for Occupational Therapists 11 October 2018 Webinar https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/webinarcalendar?j=1694472&sfmc_sub=191263843&l=667_HTML&u =64333578&mid=7229450&jb=17&utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PCTAMonthlyWebinar Learning and Teaching with Simulation 15 - 17 October 2018 Melbourne, VIC https://www.monash.edu/healthed-institute/short-courses/learning-and-teaching-with-simulation Speech Pathology Foundations for Paediatric Feeding 2018 18 & 19 October 2018 Parramatta, NSW https://www.trybooking.com/393356 Exploring Imagery Rescripting (ImR): managing trauma when words aren’t enough 20 October 2018 Tamworth, NSW https://www.psychology.org.au/BookEvent/18661

A Palliative Approach - Allied health and children with a life-limiting illness

28 November 2018

Charlestown, NSW

PEPA (Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach), in conjunction with John Hunter Children’s Hospital’s Paediatric Palliative Care Service, are providing a free day’s training to all interested allied health professionals on working with children with a life-limiting illness.

Given the complex needs of children and young people with life-limiting conditions they and their families will access many health, disability and specialist services throughout their lives, as well as their communities, schools and the world at large. As such they will work with many allied health professionals in a wide range of settings.

So whether you work with children with a life-limiting illness, or whether you might like to learn more in preparation for when this might occur, this training will offer you the chance to learn about the vital role played by allied health in helping such children and their families live a full, dignified life.

To register and print out your ticket visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/charlestown-nsw-a-palliative-approach-allied-health-and-children-with-a-life-limiting-illness-tickets-50046153392.

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Paediatric Physiotherapy Level 1 20 & 21 October 2018 Sydney, NSW https://www.physiotherapy.asn.au/apawcm/LearningDevelopment/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=BPG181020C Imagine, Create, Belong: a new intervention for adolescents with social difficulties 22 October 2018 Melbourne, VIC https://www.learntoplayevents.com/event/imagine-create-belong-new-intervention-adolescents-social-difficulties-1-day-workshop-22-oct-2018/ The CELF-5A&NZ Screening Test: Identifying children who may be experiencing language difficulties 24 October 2018 Webinar https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/webinarcalendar?j=1694472&sfmc_sub=191263843&l=667_HTML&u =64333578&mid=7229450&jb=17&utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PCTAMonthlyWebinar Making SENSE of MEALTIMES (MSOM) 31 October & 1 November 2018 Sydney, NSW www.trybooking.com/UZYC Sense-ational Mealtimes Clinical Practice Day 2 November 2018 Sydney, NSW www.trybooking.com/UZYC 6th National Brain Injury Conference 13th & 14th November 2018 Brisbane, QLD https://www.braininjuryconference.com.au/ CIAP Evidence-Based Practice Workshop 13 November 2018 Newcastle, NSW https://www.ciap.health.nsw.gov.au/learning/workshops.html Child-Initiated Pretend Play Assessment (ChIPPA) – 2 14 - 16 November 2018 Melbourne, VIC https://www.learntoplayevents.com/event/child-initiated-pretend-play-assessment-2-3-day-workshop-14-16-nov-2018/ Health App Development: The Basics (Workshop 1) - App Workshop Series for NSW Health 15 November 2018 Camperdown, NSW https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/appworkshopseries Occupational Therapy Australia - National Paediatrics Symposium 16 & 17 November 2018 Sydney, NSW www.otausevents.com.au/paediatrics2018

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