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Healthy Start

An innovative online collaboration tool using social networking technology is part of the new-look Healthy Start website. Healthy Start Network practice members can use the new tool to connect, communicate and collaborate with other professionals supporting parents with learning difficulties and their children.

Healthy Start builds capacity among professionals and volunteers in the health, welfare and education sectors who share a common interest in enhancing the lives of children and their parents with learning difficulties. It does this by helping practitioners and organisations to:

• access best practice information, summaries of latest research, and evidence-based programs
• exchange knowledge with other professionals by sharing ideas and resources at supported events, workshops, or via the online Practice Network
• build the capacity of existing networks, services or programs by working on local initiatives, meet with Healthy Start champions across Australia, and get involved in leadership development activities.

The Healthy Start Practice Network now has more than 170 active members across Australia, and 2000 professionals receive the Healthy Start bimonthly e-news. By exchanging ideas from research and practice, practitioners and policy makers access the best knowledge and expertise to promote best practice in family support, develop leadership skills and networks, and enhance the service system by tailoring parent support services to parents’ learning needs.

Visit the Healthy Start website for more information about the program.

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