About Healthy Kids
The project aims to bring together early childhood education and care educators (ECEC) with other key early- years partners in a series of free, quarterly professional development events.
These complement the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Framework, and include:
- a presentation by health and early childhood leaders with a focus on strategies to support children’s health and wellbeing
- small group reflective practice discussions
- local panel Q&A.
The Healthy Kids program supports early childhood educators in these communities: Townsville, Burdekin, Mackay, Rockhampton, Hervey Bay, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Redcliffe Peninsular, Caboolture, Acacia Ridge, Logan, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Kingaroy, Lockyer Valley, South West Queensland, through a variety of in-person and online options.
Healthy Kids in 2024
After seven fantastic years of delivering Healthy Kids, we are taking a 6-month break to review what we've achieved and how we can best support early childhood educators around topics of health in the future. We've loved every minute of preparing topics, meeting educators, coordinating and supporting events! Stay in the loop by subscribing to the Healthy Kids newsletter (see below).
Find previous events and topics
In the meantime, you can find recordings of previous events, as well as handouts, reflective practice worksheet and other resources in the back catalogue of newsletters.
Newsletter editions
2023: Healthy development for healthy kids
- Growing brains from birth
- Speech and language basics
- It takes two: social skills in early childhood
- Help me do it myself: building movement and practical skills
2022: Connecting with families and communities
- Sensitive conversations with families
- Partnering with families
- Linking with communities
- Understanding your families
2021: Trauma-informed care in the early years
- Managing the impact of others’ trauma: reducing secondary traumatic stress
- Implementing a trauma-informed care in the early years
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and the impact of childhood trauma
- Bumps and Roadblocks (updated)
2020: Trauma-informed care in the early years
2019: Language and communication
- Supporting Bilingual Children
- Language and behaviour
- Little ones love literacy
- Creating communication-friendly environments
2018: Physical health and wellbeing
- Growing good little eaters
- Creating environments to support active play
- Physical building blocks in the early years
- Catching a moment to move
2017: Social and emotional wellbeing
- Building relationships with children and families
- Supporting children to manage their emotions
- Early brain development
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