The Child and Family Health clinic is a free service to support families caring for children from birth to five years of age.
Child and Family Health Nurses provide regular developmental screening as well as information and support on breastfeeding, maternal and infant nutrition, introducing solids, growth and development, sleep and settling, parenting, immunisation, dental care, child safety and community services.
The Northern NSW Local Health District has a range of services aimed at helping you make positive changes to your alcohol and drug use. These include:
The Women’s Health Clinic provides a wide range of services for women, including pap test screening, breast checks, pregnancy testing and advice, postnatal checks, post termination checks, diaphragm fitting, continence assessment, limited STI screening.
Our Women’s Health Nurses can provide information on sexual health, reproductive health, menstruation, menopause, osteoporosis, relationship and lifestyle issues and contraception, as well as group or individual education programs.
We provide speech pathology services to infants and children from birth to school age who reside in the Tweed and Byron shires.
Speech Pathology staff work together with the infant/child, their parents or carers and other service providers eg Nursing, Allied health, Psychology, Medical Specialists, Audiometry, and Preschools.
Our Social Workers provide counselling to people aged over 18 on a range of issues including depression, grief, family conflict, relationship break-up, relationship problems, anxiety and stress, work issues and domestic violence.
Our trained counsellors can also provide support to help with raising children and learning parenting strategies.
Palliative Care and Bereavement counselling is also available.
Access criteria:
The Paediatric Community Health Nurse provides support and education to children and their families following hospital admission, or who have chronic complex conditions.
The Paediatric Nurse also provides education for children and their families on conditions such as continence issues, asthma, anaphylaxis, and eczema.
Access criteria:
Occupational therapists provide assessment and intervention to help clients of all ages maintain or regain function in their occupational role, perform tasks and improve or maintain independence, safety and quality of life.
Occupational therapy services are provided in hospital, community health centres and the home environment.
If you need mental health care, please phone the Mental Health Line on 180 011 511 or go to your nearest hospital Emergency Department.
If it’s an emergency, please phone triple zero (000) immediately.
The Mental Health Line is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and will connect you with the right care for your individual situation, no matter where you live in NSW. It is not a telephone counselling service.