Child maltreatment is a global health priority affecting up to half of all children worldwide, with profound and ongoing impacts on physical, social and emotional wellbeing.
Child maltreatment is a global health priority affecting up to half of all children worldwide, with profound and ongoing impacts on physical, social and emotional wellbeing.
The First 1000 Days Australia Council appreciates that parenting is a skill learned from being parented and is specific to the demands of a particular way of life. The Council also understands there are families who experience social and health inequities.
We have been working with fathers, uncles, pops, brothers and young men who will be fathers for many years now, in clinical work, in prisons, in schools and hospitals and with communities in every state.
For thousands of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have held Welcome Baby to Country ceremonies to acknowledge an infant’s connection to the traditional lands on which they are born.
To determine the characteristics of parenting initiatives that most effectively facilitate raising strong and healthy children among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.
The More than a Landlord project was initially developed by Aboriginal Housing Victoria or AHV and funded as a nutritional intervention through the Victorian Government’s Koolin Balit initiatives.
Interest in prospective longitudinal birth cohorts (LBCs), and ethical participatory research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians has grown.
The More than a Landlord project was initially developed by Aboriginal Housing Victoria or AHV and funded as a nutritional intervention through the Victorian Government’s Koolin Balit initiatives.
The Australian specific interpretation of the 1000 Days movement is being established to have effective supports for families of Indigenous children during critical periods of heightened risk from pre-conception to a child’s second birthday.
This overview describes what the First 1000 Days Australia Model looks like, the steps taken to develop and implement the work, and how to become involved.
“Young children’s healthy development depends on nurturing care-care which ensures health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, safety and security, and early learning.”
The Australian Model of the First 1000 Days is an Indigenous-led initiative which seeks to provide a coordinated, comprehensive intervention to address the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from (pre)conception to two years of age and their families.