Kids Come First Project

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Kids Come First Project

Antenatal Early Years (0 – 5) Children (6 – 12) Young People (12 – 17)

Smoking, Drinking, Illicit Drug Use During Pregnancy

Teenage Pregnancy

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Infant Mortality

Attendance at Nurse Health Assessment

Breastfeeding rates (6 weeks, 6

months)

Congenital Malformation

Developmental Vulnerability

(AEDI)

Literacy and Numeracy in Prep (PIPS)

Tasmanian Child Health and Wellbeing Survey• Physical Activity

• Nutrition• Mental Health

• Family Functioning

ABS Census• Socio-Economic Disadvantage

• Low income families• Access to a vehicle

• Access to the Internet• Children with a disability

Education• NAPLAN

• Absences (Chronic Absenteeism)

• Suspensions

Child Protection• Children notified

• Children investigated• Children in Out of Home Care

• Multiple Placements in Out of Home Care

Hospitalisations • Injury and poisoning

• Asthma

cu@home (Teenage pregnancy)

Community Youth Justice

Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drug Consumption (ASSAD)

Custodial Youth

Justice

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Physical health and wellbeing

Social Competence Emotional Maturity Language and cognitive skills

Communication skills and general knowledge

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AEDI

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Children Developmentally Vulnerable on the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI)

Tasmania Australia East Devonport Most disadvantaged communities (SEIFA)

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Kids Come First

• Reports• Analysers• Profiles

– Area Profiles– Child and Family Centre Profiles

• Maps

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Working with Communities• Child and Family Centres• Providing support for grant applications• Place based (Area advisory groups, Local Government, Huon

Valley Health Services Advisory Committee)• Coalitions of Interest

– Breastfeeding Coalition, Making Choices (teenage pregnancy), Child Home Injury Prevention, Early Years Groups

• Schools, Child Health Nurses, Neighbourhood Houses, Non Government Organisations

• Overarching Bilateral Indigenous Plan (COAG Closing the Gap)

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Lessons Learnt

• Real time analysis saves time and increases understanding

• A holistic approach to data collection takes more time but pays off in the long term

• The need for various tools to engage with communities – not just tables of data– Maps– Visualisations– Narrative / Context

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Lessons Learnt

• An iterative process to measuring outcomes is ok– indicators can be improved over time

• More eyes on the data the better• Don’t forget the data gaps

– Eg Family Violence indicator– Let people know what you want to measure

• There’s no such thing as evidence based – only evidence influenced

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Lessons Learnt

• Importance of comparisons– Similar communities (LGA)– Over time– LGA / State / National

• Be willing to:– Let the data question your assumptions– Let your experience question the data

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Future Directions

• Moving from interest to action– Clearly linking decisions to data

• Ensuring that monitoring outcomes and using them to inform planning becomes part of everyday business

• Evaluations using data linkage

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Contact Us

http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/kids_come_first kidscomefirst@dhhs.tas.gov.au

6233 3764

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