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Programs and projects

This section provides details and links for programs and projects that address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants and children's health.

Details and links (where available) relating to relevant programs, projects and lessons learned are collected here.

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Title	Reach	Focus
'Go for your life' community education program	VIC	Mainstream
'No more runny ears and mop-up' - evaluation of a comprehensive case management support program for prevention of hearing loss associated with otitis media with perforation in Indigenous children 0 to 5 years of age (a randomised controlled trial).	NT	Indigenous
A pro active health promoting organisation	ACT	Mainstream
A-B See with Wor-Ra-Kee (Karuah Family Nutrition and School Access Project)	NSW	Indigenous
Aboriginal families study - Closing the gap in Indigenous maternal and child health outcomes	SA	Indigenous
Aboriginal family support service	WA	Indigenous
Aboriginal healthy lifestyle program	WA	Indigenous
Aboriginal perspective on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - research project	WA	Indigenous
Active-ate	QLD	Mainstream
Airway bacteriology of children with bronchiectasis	NT	Not specified
All children being safe program	NSW	Indigenous
Alpurrurulam skateboard program	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
An education intervention for childhood asthma by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers: a randomised controlled trial	QLD	Indigenous
Antecedents of renal disease in Aboriginal children and young adults (ARDAC) study	NSW	Indigenous
Anyinginyi fetal alcohol spectrum disorder project	NT	Indigenous
Apunipima baby basket	QLD	Indigenous
Asking questions about alcohol in pregancy (AQUA) study	VIC	Mainstream
Asthma child and adolescent program (ACAP)	National	Mainstream
Australian nurse-family partnership program	National	Indigenous
Azithromycin versus placebo in the treatment of asymptomatic acute otitis media in young Aboriginal children	NT	Indigenous
Be active eat well	VIC	Mainstream
Bellary Springs community centre project (Gumala Aboriginal Corporation)	WA	Indigenous
Better food better care and better food better preschool initiatives	QLD	Mainstream
Binya Gurang - Promotion of breastfeeding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women	NSW	Indigenous
Boomerangs parenting program	NSW	Indigenous
Bronchiolitis severity scoring tools study	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Building a perinatal service model for a Western Australian Aboriginal community	WA	Indigenous
Bulgarr Ngaru fruit and vegetable program and market garden	NSW	Indigenous
Burden of influenza and other respiratory viruses among Aboriginal children in the top end	NT	Indigenous
Care circles	NSW	Indigenous
Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous children's lung health	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Cherbourg healthy pregnancies project	QLD	Indigenous
Child health nutrition education and support: Mt Gillen project	SA	Indigenous
Child sexual abuse therapeutic service	WA	Indigenous
Childhood Healthy Weight Project	NT	Mainstream
Children and family centres (Indigenous early childhood development)	National	Indigenous
Clean teeth, wicked smiles	NSW	Indigenous
Closing the gap: Early childhood sustained home visiting for families of Aboriginal infants in an urban community (Bulundidi Gudaga)	NSW	Indigenous
Community crime prevention program	VIC	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Cool CAP school canteen accreditation program	TAS	Mainstream
Cough assessment study	NT	Indigenous
CREATE healthy eating in schools	SA	Mainstream
Crocodile smiles 2	QLD	Indigenous
Crunch & Sip	National	Mainstream
Deadly Ears, the Queensland state-wide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ear health program	QLD	Indigenous
Deadly sista girlz	NSW	Indigenous
Deadly teeth	VIC	Indigenous
Deadly tots	NSW	Indigenous
Desert feet tour project	WA	Indigenous
Development of the first screening and diagnostic service for foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Australia	National	Mainstream
Djillay Lidj best start program	VIC	Indigenous
Dream time kids	NT	Indigenous
Earbus program	WA	Indigenous
Early childhood development services	NT	Indigenous
Early childhood families and schools together (FAST) program	NT	Indigenous
Early childhood nutrition and anaemia prevention program	NT	Indigenous
Early words	NSW	Indigenous
Family Food Patch Project	TAS	Mainstream
Family Nutrition Project	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Family support service	WA	Indigenous
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder action group	National	Mainstream
Folate intake and blood folate levels in the Western Australian Aboriginal population	WA	Indigenous
Footprints in time: the longitudinal survey of Indigenous children	National	Indigenous
Fresh for kids	NSW	Mainstream
Fresh kids	VIC	Mainstream
From little things, good teeth grow	NT	Indigenous
Fun not Fuss with Food Program	QLD	Mainstream
Gifted and talented children	Not specified	Indigenous
Go for your life	VIC	Mainstream
Good Food Great Kids - Yarra Valley Community Health Service 2002-2004	VIC	Indigenous
Good for kids good for life	NSW	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Good Start Breakfast Club	National	Mainstream
Growing strong: feeding you and your baby	QLD	Indigenous
Growth assessment and action (GAA) data collection program	NT	Indigenous
Growth Assessment and Action (GAA) Program	QLD	Indigenous
Gunai Lidj program	VIC	Indigenous
Gunbalanya family safety program	NT	Indigenous
Handwashing campaign	NT	Indigenous
Happy kids	WA	Indigenous
Happy teeth program	QLD	Mainstream
Health and education needs analysis project (Gumala Aboriginal Corporation)	WA	Indigenous
Healthier babies and preschoolers through child care services	SA	Mainstream
Healthy Active Australia Community and Schools Grants Program	National	Mainstream
Healthy Canteens Advisory Service	VIC	Mainstream
Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids	ACT	Indigenous
Healthy Eating Schools Program	VIC	Mainstream
Healthy for life	National	Indigenous
Healthy for life maternal and child health program	WA	Indigenous
Healthy jarjums make healthy food choices	QLD	Indigenous
Healthy Kids	ACT	Mainstream
Healthy Kids - Food is Fun project	NSW	Mainstream
Healthy Kids - Healthy Food for Kids in Care project	NSW	Mainstream
Healthy Kids - Healthy Kids, Eat Right, Play Right	NSW	Mainstream
Healthy Kids Queensland Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey	QLD	Mainstream
Healthy lifestyle carnival road safety sessions	NT	Indigenous
Healthy Options Tasmania (HOT)	TAS	Mainstream
Healthy skin & rheumatic heart disease	NT	Indigenous
Healthy start, healthy life	National	Indigenous
Healthy under 5 kids program	NT	Indigenous
Healthy ways project	SA	Indigenous
Hearing advisory teachers	NT	Mainstream
Heartbeat: a University of Western Sydney schools engagement program	NSW	Indigenous
Hope, opportunity, purpose, education and employment (HOPE)	VIC	Indigenous
Housing improvement and child health (HICH) - extension	NT	Indigenous
I-RISE: Indigenous racial identity and self-esteem project	WA	Indigenous
Immune function in children with bronchiectasis	NT	Not specified
Immunising Aboriginal mothers with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine to prevent infant ear disease and pneumococcal carriage. (PneuMum).	NT	Indigenous
Improving hygiene and children's health in remote Indigenous communities	NT	Indigenous
Improving services for women who are pregnant and alcohol dependent	National	Mainstream
Improving the management and outcomes for infants hospitalised with bronchiolitis	NT	Indigenous
Improving young women's sexual and reproductive health	VIC	Indigenous
Indigenous children's program	NT	Indigenous
Indigenous parent factor: successful early learning at home and school (IPF)	WA	Indigenous
Indigenous parents support (IPS)	WA	Indigenous
Indigenous Professional Support Unit	National	Indigenous
Indigenous storybook	WA	Indigenous
Indigenous Triple P effectiveness in community settings	QLD	Indigenous
Indigenous women’s project: newborns asthma and parental smoking (NAPS)	WA	Indigenous
Infant Feeding Guidelines	NT	Indigenous
Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion for Urban Aboriginal Children and Youth in South Western Sydney	NSW	Indigenous
Inside outside	ACT	Mainstream
Kids - 'Go for your life'	VIC	Mainstream
Kids protect your lid	NSW	Mainstream with Indigenous content
KidsMatter	National	Mainstream
Kitchen garden at Red Hill School	ACT	Mainstream
Koori kids Koori smiles oral health program	NSW	Indigenous
Koorlangah Mia Program	WA	Indigenous
Kurbingui Youth Development Association (KYDA) Family support program	QLD	Indigenous
Let’s start: parent-child program	NT	Indigenous
Little People's Meeting Place	WA	Indigenous
Lung sickness in Murri kids: what's the story	QLD	Indigenous
MacDonnell Shire Council community and agency services	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Maningrida child safety service	NT	Indigenous
Maternal and neonatal outcomes of maternal pituri use	National	Indigenous
Maternal health tackling smoking program	SA	Indigenous
Mathematical modeling of bacterial carriage in children (MMAPS)	NT	Indigenous
Maths as a cultural practice	NT	Indigenous
Mister germ hygiene and nutrition program	NSW	Indigenous
Mobile preschool program evaluation	NT	Indigenous
Move well eat well for schools project	TAS	Mainstream
Mt Theo program - youth outreach services	NT	Indigenous
Multi-centre bronchiectasis study: a collaborative and international study of bronchiectasis in Indigenous children	International	Indigenous
Multi-centre evaluation of a clinical pathway for chronic cough in children - can it be used to improve clinical outcomes?	Not specified	Mainstream with Indigenous content
National Aboriginal and Islander children's day (4 August annually)	National	Indigenous
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child and maternal health exemplar site initiative	National	Indigenous
National Child Nutrition projects	National	Mainstream
National Indigenous foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) resource project	National	Indigenous
Nganampa Health Council Child and maternal health program	SA	Indigenous
Ngaripirliga’ajirri early intervention program	NT	Indigenous
No alcohol in pregnancy is the safest choice campaign	WA	Mainstream
No safe amount - the effects of alcohol in pregnancy	National	Indigenous
NPY child nutrition and wellbeing program	NT	Indigenous
NSW Healthy School Canteen	NSW	Mainstream
NT MOJOs	NT	Indigenous
Nutrition and physical activity program	NT	Mainstream
Nutrition Ready-to-Go at Out of School Hours Care (OOSHC)	NSW	Mainstream
Ord Valley Aboriginal Health Service foetal alcohol spectrum disorders program	WA	Indigenous
Physical Activity and Nutrition Out of School Hours Care Program	QLD	Mainstream
PneuMum: a randomised controlled trial of pneumococcal polysaccharide immunisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers to protect their babies from ear disease	Not specified	Indigenous
Q4 Live Outside the Box primary school project	NSW	Mainstream
Randomised controlled trial of azithromycin to reduce the morbidity of severe bronchiolitis in young Indigenous children	National	Indigenous
Reducing Aboriginal children's tobacco smoke exposure in the Pilbara	WA	Indigenous
Remote hearing and vision services for children	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Responding Early Assisting Children (REACh)	National	Mainstream
Roma program	QLD	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Safe families	NT	Indigenous
Safe Koori kids: community based approaches to Indigenous injury prevention	NSW	Indigenous
School based health challenges	WA	Indigenous
School Nutrition Program	NT	Indigenous
Shake a leg	NSW	Indigenous
Solid Kids Solid Schools	WA	Indigenous
Sporting chance program	National	Indigenous
Start right eat right	TAS	Not specified
Start Right Eat Right Award	VIC	Mainstream
Stayin' strong	QLD	Indigenous
Strengthening social and emotional wellbeing of Australian Aboriginal people: how does racial identity and related self-esteem mediate the mental wellbeing of Aboriginal people?	WA	Indigenous
Strong Family, Strong Culture Program	WA	Indigenous
Strong literacy and numeracy in communities	NT	Indigenous
Strong teeth for little kids: a community-randomised controlled trial of fluoride varnish application to children’s teeth and health promotion to prevent dental decay in Aboriginal pre-school children	NT	Indigenous
Strong women, strong babies, strong culture	NT	Indigenous
Study of environment on Aboriginal resilience and child health (SEARCH)	NSW	Indigenous
Surfing participation program	VIC	Indigenous
Take pride in personal hygiene	QLD	Indigenous
Take the challenge	WA	Mainstream
Tangentyere youth activity service	NT	Indigenous
Tennant Creek Primary School – Healthy Food Happy Kids	NT	Mainstream
The management of children with otitis media: a survey of Australian Aboriginal Medical Services	NSW	Indigenous
Traditional Indigenous games	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Training and support unit for Aboriginal mothers, babies, and children	NSW	Indigenous
TROVE - Case control study of rotavirus vaccine effectiveness in the NT	NT	Indigenous
Victorian Aboriginal child mortality study	VIC	Indigenous
VidKids	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Vitamin D insufficiency in Indigenous infants and the risk of hospitalisation for acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI)	NT	Indigenous
Waltja's APY Mother's and Children's program	NT	Indigenous
Weaving the net	NSW	Indigenous
Western Australian healthy schools project (WAHSP)	WA	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Whiz kidz before and after school care program	VIC	Mainstream with Indigenous content
WINGS Drop-In Centre - Safe Aboriginal youth	NSW	Indigenous
Working together for healthier Mullewa kids	WA	Indigenous
Wurli Wurlinjang child and maternal/women’s health program	NT	Indigenous

Last updated: 23 May 2013

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