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- What happens when a chef, a garden therapist and a sustainability leader work together? At the Royal Children’s Hospital, a kitchen garden is doing more than growing food. It’s supporting patient well-being, changing how hospital food is experienced, and closing the loop on sustainability. We're joined by three people who made this possible, each from a very different part of the organisation.
Kitchen garden blog page - Having surgery an be a daunting time for anybody, let alone a child with neurodiversity being placed into an unfamiliar environment and taken out of their routine. Join Grace Curran associate Nurse Unit manager of Elective surgery & Clinical Nurse Specialist in pre admissions resource clinic and Nancy Puente PARC Nurse as they discuss how to best care for children with neurodiversity as they traverse the perioperative journey.
- In this episode Camille Foley speaks to two lived experience advisors Deanna Carr and Carmen Ludeman about lived experience in mental health, its origins, the importance of embedding the expertise of consumers, families, and carers into system design, policy, and practice, and how this can transform services, reduce stigma, and improve care.
Resources:
Lived experience | health.vic.gov.au
Tandem resource- Peak body for families, carers and supporters
Peak consumer advocacy service-IMHA: Independent Mental Health Advocacy | IMHA
Alternate consumer advocacy service- VMIAC: VMIAC Home Page
Housing and support service for people with significant mental health and wellbeing challenges: Housing and support | Mind Australia
Service who works with children of parents or family members with mental health challenges- Satellite Foundation: Satellite Foundation | Creativity and connection for mental health and wellbeing
Alternate service who provide support for children and young people who are supporting someone with disability or mental health challenges- little dreamers: Little Dreamers Australia – Supporting Young Carers & Their Families - In this episode, Camille Foley (Senior mental health clinician and education fellow) speaks with Adam Blake (Psychiatric Nurse Consultant) and Kate Coward (family peer-support worker) about non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents, exploring its prevalence, risk factors, relational and family impacts, and how compassionate, evidence-informed treatment and responses can move us beyond stigma toward effective support.
Resource link:
Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury CPG :
Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline
References:
AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare). Intentional self-harm hospitalisations. 2025. Suicide and self-harm monitoring.
AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare). Suicide and intentional self-harm hospitalisations among young people. 2025. Suicide and self-harm monitoring.
Usmani et al., 2025. Understanding the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Non-suicidal Self-Injury in Youth: A Systematic Review. Understanding the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Non-suicidal Self-Injury in Youth: A Systematic Review - PMC
Yu-Jing Wang, Xi Li, Chee H. Ng, Dong-Wu Xu, Shaohua Hu, Ti-Fei Yuan, Risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents: A meta-analysis, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 46, 2022. Risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents: A meta-analysis - ScienceDirect
Melbourne Children’s Suicide and Non-suicidal Self-injury Guideline Development Group. (2026). Suicide and Non-suicidal Self-injury in Children and Adolescents: Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guideline: Melbourne Children’s. - In this episode we are chatting with Dani Gold, who is a senior social worker in the Family Violence team at the RCH. Dani’s current work focuses on supporting healthcare workers to understand and respond to children and families experiencing Family Violence.
Today we are delving into Family Violence as well as gender-based violence, which are both health issues. As healthcare workers, by recognising and responding to Family Violence, even in small ways, we can have a significant impact on the lives of children and their caregivers. This conversation provides listeners with the tools to recognise and respond to Family Violence, including how to frame conversations and advocate for families, thus enhancing the safety and dignity of those we care for.
Resources - (some of these are Australia specific)
1800 RESPECT
Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre
No To Violence Men’s Referral Service
Djirra
WithRespect
Safer Families centre
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About The Education Hub - Conversation with the experts
This podcast is for any health professional wanting to learn more about how to provide best-practice clinical care for children and their families. In each episode, experts from The Melbourne Children’s Campus (a collaboration between The Royal Children’s Hospital, University of Melbourne and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute) provide advice and insights, tips and tricks, and discuss latest research findings on a range of topics. As well as clinical and research-focused episodes, you will also find episodes that can help you and your team perform at your best in times of high stress. To find out more about The Education Hub, please visit: education-hub.rch.org.au
The Education Hub Learning Resource Disclaimer
This information is intended to support the education of health professionals. The authors have made considerable efforts to ensure the information contained in this resource is accurate, evidence-based, and up to date at the time of publication however the information and advice offered is intended as a guide only and does not replace the need for clinical expertise and the application of clinical judgment to each individual presentation. Users of this resource are strongly recommended to confirm that the information contained is correct by way of independent sources and appropriate to their context. The Royal Children’s Hospital accepts no liability, however arising, for any inaccuracies or information perceived as misleading and makes no representations as to the success of any treatment recommended in the resource.
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