Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 56
Community Health
Community Health staff (nursing, medical and allied
health professionals) provide a range of services close
to where people live, and in their own homes.
Child and Family Health Services work to enable
the best development of children and enable
families to live healthy and fulfilling lives.
Our specialised teams and services include,
Child Health Information Link (CHIL) referral and
advice line, Child Protection Counselling Service,
Community Allied Health, Disability Specialist Unit
- Specialist Team for Intellectual Disability Sydney
(StrIDeS), Healthy Homes and Neighbourhoods,
HIV, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Counselling Services, Integrated Sexual Assault
medical, forensic and counselling service
(available 24/7), Out of Home Care Health
Pathways Program, Pregnancy and Family
Conferencing, Sexual Health and Youth Health.
Our Community Health
Services delivered care to
40,549 clients in service
locations across the
District with care delivered
in 2846 homes.
Highlights:
• Continued to support the COVID-19 pandemic
response including providing specialist
support to people living with disability in the
community through the Specialist Team for
Intellectual Disability Sydney (STrIDeS) and the
deployment of staff to COVID testing clinics,
vaccination clinics, screening, RPA Virtual
Hospital, Special Health Accommodation, the
COVID-19 Support Line, contact tracing and
the Aboriginal Cultural Support Team.
Children received care
on almost 31,500
occasions from our
community health staff.
• Delivered the District’s First 2000 Days
Implementation Plan – Healthy Families Healthy
Children (HFHC) – a program of services and
resources to support the best development of
children antenatally to five years.
• Launched the Well-being Health in-reach
Nurse program providing specialised nursing
support in schools across the District.
• Nominated for a NSW Premier’s Award for the
Pregnancy Family Conferencing Program.
The Sexual Assault Service
provided Crisis Response
to 257 clients.
• Hosted virtual events including the Youth
Health Eating Disorders Forum and Child
Protection Awards.
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