Welcome to Frankie's Clubhouse
Frankie’s Clubhouse is the place to find storybooks, information and resources based on lived experience and up-to-date research on babies, children and families coming to hospital. Frankie can help children prepare for medical treatment, cope with stress, and understand upsetting experiences through play.
Who can use Frankie’s resources:
- Babies and children
- Parents, caregivers and families
- Practitioners who support children and families
- Family carer peer workers
- Early childhood educators and teachers
- Researchers
Meet Frankie
Hi, I’m Frankie! I’m a soft toy puppy. I can help you feel better if you’re hurt or sick. My superpower is helping children feel brave and learn new skills to cope with scary or painful situations. You can cuddle and play with me if you feel scared, sad, lonely, or angry. I’m here when you feel happy too!
Your family can read stories with you about how I’ve helped other children who visited the doctor or hospital.
Resources and programs
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Information and resources
Information, resources and videos to help caregivers take care of themselves, their child and their family when a child is sick, injured or experienced a traumatic event.
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CARE Trauma Resilience Intervention
Find out more about the CARE Trauma Resilience Intervention for medical traumatic stress.
About us
The Frankie’s Clubhouse team is a dedicated group of healthcare professionals, researchers, parents with lived experience and children’s book authors and illustrators. Over the past 20 years, team members have been creating, evaluating and implementing resources and programs to support mental health in infants and children who have experienced traumatic events. We have partnered with consumers, clinicians and researchers across Australia and internationally to ensure our resources are sensitive, culturally appropriate, evidence-informed and sustainable.
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Frankie’s Clubhouse is created by the Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (QCPIMH).
If you have questions or feedback about Frankie’s Clubhouse email frankies-clubhouse@health.qld.gov.au.
Copyright notice: All Frankie’s Clubhouse content is copyright under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Last updated: November 2024