2025 First 2000 Days symposium presentations

Session 1: Learnings from Brighter Beginnings Initiatives

 
Brighter Beginnings – Natasa Mitic, Executive Director, Quality, Participation and Connection, Department of Education

Session 2: Collaborative approaches to maternal and child wellbeing

 
Pregnancy to the Preschool: Strengthening the Health Sector Responses to Family, Domestic & Sexual Violence - Professor Kathleen Baird RM, Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, UTS
 
Nurturing Connections - Angeline Landry, MNC LHD Danielle Pretty, SES LHD; Lee Meredith, NS LHD; Dr Sara Cibralic (Ingham Institute)
 
From Trauma to Trust: Changing Birth Experiences Alysha Karraz and Madison Spencer, WNSW LHD
 
Building Clinician Capacity to engage expectant and new mums with online therapies - Keryl de Haan, Murrumbidgee LHD

Session 3: Innovation and service redesign

 
Digital screening of child development and parental mental health needs in a preschool-based wellbeing hub- Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari, SWS LHD and UNSW and Scientia Professor Valsamma Eapen, UNSW
 
Using the ‘F-words’ to adopt a holistic and child rights promoting approach in developmental assessment clinics - Dr Sinthu Vivekanandarajah, SWS LHD
 
Keeping Toddlers in the Picture: A tiered prevention and early intervention program to support parents of toddlers and optimise child mental health outcomes Associate Professor Jane Kohlhoff, Karitane and UNSW
 
Progressing Little Voices: The Virtual Early Talking Group - Courtney Paull, WNSW LHD

Session 4: Consumers, communities and co-design

 
From Voice to Outcomes: Consumer Engagement in the Healthy Homes and Neighbourhoods Initiative - Melissa McDonnell and Ty Madden, The George Institute for Global Health
 
First 2000 Days Emerging Evidence for Interventions - Associate Professor Elisabeth Murphy PSM
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