CHILD AND ADOLESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH

Child and Adolescent Community Health (CACH) provides a comprehensive range of health promotion and early identification and intervention community-based services to children and families, focusing on growth and development in the early years, promoting well-being during childhood and adolescence.

Service delivery is both universal and targeted. Groups at risk of poorer health outcomes, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and newly arrived refugees, are of particular focus.

CACH helps with a wide range of issues including:

• Breastfeeding, infant feeding, introducing solids and family nutrition
• Sleep and settling
• Growth, development and play
• Injury prevention and child safety
• Postnatal anxiety, stress and depression
• Immunisations and free access to them
• At risk services, with a focus on Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and refugee families
• Health promotion, capacity building and community development

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30am – 5pm

Phone: (08) 9494 3777 or 9494 3778

Website: www.health.wa.gov.au