MEDIA RELEASE The award-winning developmental screening program Healthy Kids Bus Stop is returning to Lake Cargelligo to help improve the health and wellbeing of children aged 3-5 so they start school ready to learn. In partnership with the Murrumbidgee Local Health District, Griffith Community Health Dental Service, Griffith Aboriginal Medical Service and Ronald McDonald House…
Royal Far West has been recognised for Outstanding Achievement (OAA) in The Australian Charity Awards 2020. The program was established to recognise organisations for the exceptional work undertaken through their charitable activities. The Australian Charity Awards are a partner program of The Australian Business Awards. Royal Far West’s Senior Disability Advisor Fiona Phipps says the…
Evidence shows bushfire events negatively impact children’s mental health, research urgently needed to identify evidence-based interventions and support A literature review published today in the Medical Journal of Australia’s (MJA) special supplement on Evidence Gaps in Rural Research shows an increased risk of poorer mental health outcomes for children as a result of bushfires. Commissioned…
Thursday October 15 is World Handwashing Day and to mark the occasion, Pental’s Country Life soap range has announced it will donate 5% of all net sales this summer to Australian children’s charity, Royal Far West. Country Life is locally and ethically made with Australian ingredients and has been for over 60 years. With the…
Speech Pathology Week, 23 – 29 August 2020, seeks to promote the profession and the work done by Speech Pathologists for the 1.2 million Australians who have a communication disability. This year’s theme is ‘Communicating with Confidence!’ Speech Pathologists provide assessment and therapy for a wide range of communication and feeding / swallowing disorders to enable…
