Healthy Kids: a parents' guide

The Children of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds Mental Health Project is a joint initiative of the Department of Psychological Medicine at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and the Transcultural Mental Health Centre. The project aims to work in partnership to improve the mental health of children and their families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living in NSW.

As part of the project, a multilingual multimedia community awareness campaign promoting the mental health and wellbeing of children has been developed. The project includes the development of culturally and linguistically appropriate fact sheets about anxiety, disruptive disorders, depression and anorexia nervosa. The fact sheets and audio files are available in Arabic, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin audio), Farsi/Persian, Filipino, Hindi, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese and English.

Each fact sheet (Adobe Acrobat PDF) is also available as a voice recording (MP3 audio).

The following fact sheets are available to read, to print or to listen to:

Anxiety in Children     Disruptive Disorders in Children     Depression in Children     Anorexia Nervosa in Children     NSW Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services [English only]

To improve the audio quality, you may wish to download ("right click > Save Target As..." in Microsoft Internet Explorer) the voice recordings to your computer before playing them.

Parents and carers and service providers are invited to participate in a survey to provide us with feedback about the Healthy Kids: a parents' guide information package.

If you would like to order printed information packages or purchase cassette tapes or CDs, please complete the Healthy Kids: a parents' guide order form  and fax to (02) 9840 3755 or mail to:

Transcultural Mental Health Centre
Locked Bag 7118
Parramatta NSW 2124

If you would like further information about the Children of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds Mental Health Project, please contact:

Ms Debbie Draybi
Child and Family Mental Health Clinical Program
(02) 9840 3800
Debbie_Draybi@wsahs.nsw.gov.au

Requirements

You will require a PDF viewer, e.g., the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, to read or to print the fact sheets. You will require an MP3 audio player, e.g., one of those listed in Google Directory, to listen to the voice recordings of the fact sheets.