Refugee Health - Healthy Kids

This session will explore challenges families face when settling in a new country and what primary health care professionals can do to support parents raise healthy children. Presentations and a panel discussion will cover healthy childhood development, impacts of intergenerational trauma and pathways for ongoing care for children of refugee background.

Audience: All primary healthcare providers

Learning Outcomes:

• Discuss considerations when caring for children from a refugee background
• Describe the process for the effective delivery of developmental and preventive health care to children of refugee background
• Identify key resources and referral pathways available for refugee background families
• Identify best practice processes that can facilitate culturally safe care.

Speakers:

Dr David Levitt, Director of General Paediatrics, Queensland Children’s Hospital
Paediatrician, Mater Refugee Complex Care Clinic

Farhia Haji, Refugee Health Nurse/Refugee Health Advisor, Mater Refugee Health Services

Kathryn Eichmann, Senior Speech Pathologist, Children’s Health Queensland

Amy Burkett, Clinical Services Manager, Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma

Time:

5:45pm registration and dinner,

6:30pm start

8.30pm finish

Cost: Free, dinner provided

This is an accredited activity under the RACGP QI&CPD Program, activity number 176844.

For more information about this event please phone our Events Coordinator, Raquel McCready on 07 3864 7522 or email rmccready@bsphn.org.au

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