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Child and Adolescent Community Health

Child and Adolescent Community Health

To be a leader in the delivery of community-based child and adolescent health services, we need to continuously improve. Research is the best way we can support and deliver on our vision of achieving the best health, development and well-being in our children now, and into the future.

Building a brighter future and healthy communities, starts with the children of today.

Watch our video and learn how Child and Adolescent Community Health (CACH) research is changing lives.

Contact

Senior Coordinator Research and Evaluation 
CommunityHealthResearch@health.wa.gov.au 
 

Service Overview

Child and Adolescent Community Health’s vision is:

To provide accessible, community-based services that serve infants, children and young people across Perth so they can achieve their best health, development and wellbeing, now and into the future, working in partnership with their families and caregivers.

Our research aims to support Child and Adolescent Community Health’s overarching vision by providing an evidence base, through high-quality innovative research activities related to child health, development and wellbeing outcomes in the community.

Our research has a focus on having translational impact within our service.

Current research priorities include:

  • Contemporary models of care
  • Working with families
  • Enhancing neurodevelopment, social and emotional wellbeing/mental health
  • Healthy lifestyles

Achieving health equity is a core part of our work. We believe that public health services have a vital role to play in achieving equitable child health and wellbeing outcomes. Innovative evidence-based, culturally safe, effective and efficient care is imperative to achieving these outcomes.

Key Research Areas 

Our research priorities are driven by community need and service improvement. These needs are understood through the relationships our clinicians form in the community, consumer feedback and the wealth of population-level data collected within our service.

Current Research Projects

  • Effectiveness and feasibility of an Aboriginal-informed community-based healthy lifestyle program.
  • Early identification and intervention for children with ADHD – development of a nurse-led clinical care pathway (ARC pathway).
  • Strengthening child health outcomes – improving child heath prioritisation.  
  • Preliminary validation of the Child Development Service caregiver self-efficacy outcome tool.
  • Examination of the transfer of care of families identified with vulnerabilities through the special referral process in Western Australia between maternity services and CAHS Community Health.  
  • A trail to evaluate the effectiveness of behaviourally informed SMS appointment reminders in CAHS Community Health

As well as driving a number of projects to improve services delivery and care for clients, we also partner on a number of projects with external researchers.

If you are interested in partnering with us, or would like any further information on our current research projects, please contact CAHS Community Health at CommunityHealthResearch@health.wa.gov.au.

Download the CACH 2023-25 Research Strategy

Last Updated: 28/03/2024
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