Links

• Information

  • Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights – My Healthcare Rights
    The Charter describes what consumers, or someone they care for, can expect when receiving health care.
  • Australian College of Midwives
    ACM is the peak professional organisation representing midwives and midwifery policy in Australia.
  • Australian Institute of Family Studies
    AIFS is the Australian Government’s key research body in the area of family wellbeing, providing information resources and services, and links to other sites for family research.
  • Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
    ARACY progresses and promotes evidence-based programs and strategies to improve the wellbeing of children and young people.
  • Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
    The Center draws on the intellectual resources available at Harvard University to generate, translate and apply knowledge in the service of improving life outcomes for children in the United States and throughout the world.
  • Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
    FaHCSIA helps to support families and children through programs, services, benefits and payments. Further support is provided through grants and funding for organisations providing services for families. There is help for household budgets (through the Ho
  • Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide University
    JBI is the international not-for-profit, research and development arm of the School of Translational Science based within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. The Institute and its collaborating entities promote a
  • Maternal Health Task Force
    MHTF contributes to shaping collective efforts to improve maternal health worldwide, serving as a catalyst to address one of the most neglected areas in global health and development. MHTF is the flagship project of the Women & Health Initiative at th
  • National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
    NAPCAN advocates on behalf of children and young people, and promotes positive change in attitudes, behaviour, policies, practices and the law to prevent abuse and neglect and ensure the safety and wellbeing of all Australian children.
  • National Safety and Quality Health Care Standard – Communication for Safety
    The Communicating for Safety Standard aims to ensure timely, purpose-driven and effective communication and documentation that support continuous, coordinated and safe care for patients.
  • National Safety and Quality Health Care Standard – Partnering with Consumers
    The Partnering with Consumers Standard recognises the importance of involving patients in their own care and providing clear communication to patients. This standard, together with the Clinical Governance Standard, underpins all the other standards.
  • Parenting Research Centre
    Help children and families thrive by driving improved ways of supporting parenting.
  • Pregnancy Care Guidelines – Australia
    The Guidelines were developed to help ensure that women in Australia are provided with consistent, high- quality, evidence-based maternity care. The Guidelines are intended for all health professionals who contribute to pregnancy care including midwives,
  • Respectful Maternity Care Charter
    Respectful Maternity Care Charter: Universal Rights of Mothers and Newborns which clarifies and clearly articulates the rights of women and newborns while receiving maternity care within a healthcare facility.
  • The Parternship for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
    PMNCH joins the reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health communities into an alliance of more than 500 members to ensure that all women, infants and children not only remain healthy, but thrive.
  • The White Ribbon Alliance
    The White Ribbon Alliance is a grassroots movement that builds alliances, strengthens capacity, influences policies, harnesses resources and inspires action to save the lives of women and newborns around the world.
  • United Nations Population Fund
    UNFPA works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
  • WHO recommendation on respectful maternity care during labour and childbirth
    Respectful maternity care – which refers to care organized for and provided to all women in a manner that maintains their dignity, privacy and confidentiality, ensures freedom from harm and mistreatment, and enables informed choice and continuous support
  • Woman-centred care Strategic directions for Australian maternity services
    This document outlines a national strategy to support the delivery of maternity services to women, from conception until 12 months after the pregnancy or birth.
  • Women Deliver
    Women Deliver is a global advocacy organisation bringing together voices from around the world to call for action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women.
  • World Health Organisation
    WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system, responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy
  • World Health Organisation Intrapartum Care for a Positive Childbirth Experience, 2018
    he guideline highlights the importance of woman-centred care to optimize the experience of labour and childbirth for women and their babies through a holistic, human rights-based approach. It introduces a global model of intrapartum care, which takes into
  • World Health Organisation’s framework for quality of care for pregnant women and newborns
    WHO’s Framework for quality maternity care. WHO “envisions a world where every pregnant woman and newborn receives quality care throughout pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period”.

• Support Sites

  • Association for Children with a Disability (Victoria)
    ACD is an information, support and advocacy organisation for children with a disability and their families, in Victoria, Australia.
  • Australian Breastfeeding Association
    ABA is a community based self-help group that offers information, counselling and support services on breastfeeding issues.
  • Centre for Perinatal Excellence
    Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE) is a not-for-profit organisation devoted to reducing the impacts of emotional and mental health problems in the pre and postnatal periods.
  • Children with Disability Australia
    CDA is the national peak body which represents children and young people (aged 0-25) with disability and their families.
  • Circle of Security
    Good enough parenting – engaging each parent’s wisdom by illustrating how attachment needs are expressed by infants, children and adolescents.
  • Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
  • Intensive Family Support Service
    IFSS is working closely with family support agencies in the Northern Territory to design, develop and implement a new service that targets vulnerable families.
  • My Time
    MyTime is a national organisation that provides support for mothers, fathers, grandparents and anyone caring for a child with a disability or chronic medical condition, in a group-based setting.
  • Panda – Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia
    PANDA supporting individuals and families to recover from perinatal anxiety and depression.
  • Parenting WA
    Parenting WA is the government department in Western Australia that works with families, communities, other government agencies and non-government organisations to give children the best possible start to life.
  • Queensland Centre for Mothers and Babies
    QCMB is an independent research centre based at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, whose role is to work towards consumer-focused maternity care that is integrated, evidence-based, and provides optimal choices for women in Queensland.
  • Raising Children Network | Australian parents & carers‎
    Reliable, trusted info for parents-to-be and parents & carers of 0-16 y/olds. provides ad-free parenting videos, articles and apps backed by Australian experts.
  • Search Results Web results A-Z fact sheets | The Royal Women's Hospital
    A a wide variety of fact sheets on women’s health topics Some fact sheets are also available in different languages
  • Stepfamilies Australia
    Stepfamilies Australia is a non-profit organisation offering support, education, and resources to stepfamilies.
  • Why you may want to put the baby books down
    A good baby is a perception held by our society that babies should act in a certain way. Some baby care books take advantage of this by suggesting parents should encourage babies to be in a strict routine for their feeding and sleep.