Role Title: Children's Wellbeing Service Identification and Research Intern
Organisation: REED
Internship Period: Summer (November - December)
Location: Welshpool, WA
Regional Early Education & Development Inc. (REED) is a not for profit early childhood education and care provider with 26 centre based services across regional WA. This project seeks to identify current available primary health and allied health services and supports that are available to children and their families in regional communities. Providing resources, information and referrals to available child health support services offers a more wholistic whole family approach to care. This project would look at REED's 26 community locations, identify and record available services for children and their families, identify gaps in communities and look at waitlists for services. The information collected will provide a foundation for REED's advocacy in regional Children's health and be transferred into a useable tool/resources for families.
For each location.
- What primary health and wellbeing services are available locally?
- What allied health services are available locally?
- Are these services fixed or mobile?
- Do these services have waitlists or other barriers to access?
- What services require a referral and is a referral available locally?
- What is the distance to the closest specialist service if its not available in town?
- Create a resource that is made available to parents and families of REED services and wider community.
- Identify previous primary and allied health services that have been offered and have ceased and the period they operated.
Regional Early Education and Development Inc. (REED) has been established in response to challenges identified by Early Childhood Education and Care services in more than 20 communities across the Wheatbelt region.
REED is a not-for profit incorporated association and a charity registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. Any surplus is reinvested to support the provision of the best standard of care and education.