Health Impact Project

About the Health Impact Project

About the Health Impact Project

The first few years of an individual’s life are critical to their long-term health and wellbeing. The Health Impact Project (HIP) provides an innovative place-based approach to supporting CALD children 0-8 years to achieve optimum health, wellbeing and developmental outcomes. HIP strives to remove complex barriers so that CALD families can successfully access a wide range of health promotion and early intervention activities at Community Hubs Logan. Our approach ensures holistic and planned interventions with effective coordination of resources and complementary services that are unintrusive, practical and directed by participants.

Key health promotion and early intervention activities include:

Child health nurse outreach
Oral health service outreach
Speech therapy
Music therapy
Occupational therapy
Kids gross motor programs
Cultural cooking and nutrition classes
Gentle exercise and stretching
Dance classes
School readiness workshops
Developmental workshops
Water safety programs
Tailored parenting programs
Warm referrals to relevant support services

We deliver these services in partnership with 5 local school-based hubs – Woodridge SS, Woodridge North SS, Marsden SS, St Pauls Primary and St Francis College.

Key HIP principles include provision of culturally responsive, trauma-informed, strengths-based, wraparound supports for children and families.