NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health

Head: Prof. David Bennett
Email: caah@chw.edu.au
Telephone: 9845 3338
Fax: 9845 0663
Location: off Ward Street, level 1

Established in 1998 as a technical support agency, NSW CAAH's role is to build the confidence and capacity of organisations in responding to health issues.

The service supports improved youth health outcomes by developing / disseminating information and resources, delivering professional education and training, undertaking applied research and contributing to advocacy and policy development.

Check our website for more information on NSW CAAH, youth health resources, current project information and links to other useful websites: www.caah.chw.edu.au

Research in progress

1. The GP Strategy aims to improve young people's access to General Practitioners by enhancing the effectiveness of GP youth health training and access initiatives (chief investigator).
2. 'Beyond Bandaids: Understanding the role of school nurses in NSW' Co-funded by the NSW School Nurses Association (chief investigator).
3. 'Evaluating a multidisciplinary treatment of adolescents with complex medico-psycho-social presentations', collaboration with Department of Adolescent Medicine (chief investigator).
4. Cultural diversity 'at work': The Children's Hospital at Westmead, a component of an ARC Linkage Partnership Project with Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney (contributing member).
5. Achieving better health outcomes for youth with chronic health conditions: a pan-disciplinary approach in collaboration with the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Sydney, seeding grant from Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) (contributing member).
6. Rural Cohort Study: The Faculties of Health, through the School of Rural Health of the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney (contributing member).

Recent publications

1. Chiang F & Tyne M (2006) Spinning the Web: Better connections between services working with young people/Research Report, NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW.
2. Chiang F, Moses K & Peterson A (2006) Good Practice in Youth Development: Perspectives from South-East Sydney, Communities Division, NSW Department of Community Services.
3. NSW CAAH (2006) NSW Roundtable on Youth Development Report, NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW.
4. NSW CAAH (2005). ACCESS Study: Youth Health - Better Practice Framework Fact Sheets, NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health/The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW.
5. NSW CAAH (2005). Young People's Access to Health Care: Exploring Youth Health Programs and Approaches in NSW, NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health/The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW.
6. Bennett DL, Kang M, Leu-Marshall E (2006). CHECK program of self assessment: Adolescent Health. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Published articles

1. Kang M, Bernard D, Usherwood T, Quine S, Alperstein G, Kerr-Roubicek H, Elliott A and Bennett DL (2006). Primary health care for young people: are there models of service delivery that improve access and quality? Youth Studies Australia, 25 (2):49-59.
2. Kang M, Bernard D, Usherwood T, Quine S, Alperstein G, Kerr-Roubicek H, Elliott A and Bennett DL (2006). Towards better practice in primary health care settings for young people. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 17 (2):139-144.
3. Bennett DL (2007). Essential adolescent psychiatry, review of Essentials of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Mina K Dulcan, Jerry M Wiener, editors. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing. Medical Journal of Australia, 186 (11):601.
4. Bennett DL, Chown P, Kang M (2005). Cultural diversity in adolescent health care. Medical Journal of Australia, 183 (8):436-438.
5. Bennett DL, Kang M, Chown P (2006). Cultural diversity in adolescent health care, In: Eds Greydanus DE, Patel DR, Pratt HD, Essential Adolescent Medicine, McGraw-Hill.
6. Bennett DL (2006). Foreword, In: Eds Strasburger VC, Brown RT, Braverman PK, Rogers PD, Holland-Hal C, Coupey SM, Adolescent Medicine: A Handbook for Primary Care, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
7. Bennett DL (revised and updated 2006). Foreword, In: Donaghy B, Anna's Story, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996