Community - Community Nurse
School Health Services promote improved health outcomes for school aged children and young people and are delivered using a population-based approach to universal and targeted prevention, health promotion and early identification and intervention, for children and adolescents in schools.
The Department of Education (DoE) is a joint funder of the school health program.
Services include:
- vision and hearing screening and surveillance
- access to parenting programs
- early detection and referral of children exhibiting mental health risk factors
- developmental assessments and referral to other specialist services such as Community Health's Child Development Service (CDS) as required.