This dynamic educational session is designed for primary care health professionals working with people of refugee background.
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.
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
Presenters:
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
Panel members:
Presenters plus representatives from Child Health Services, schools and settlement services.
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