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PAFs - Australian Children's Trust

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The Australian Children's Trust was established by Nicola and Andrew Forrest (CEO Fortescue Metals) in 2001 with the aim of assisting underprivileged children and with a particular focus on addressing the needs of youth. The Forrests and their fellow Trust board members understand the enormous potential of children and in particular indigenous children. Their primary concern is ensuring future generations maximise this potential by providing people with a means to help themselves - to provide the fishing rod, not the fish.

With such an interest in indigenous health and social welfare issues, the Australian Children’s Trust decided to support the Health-e-Screen4Kids indigenous mobile health screening program. This three year pilot program concentrates on screening indigenous children from a study area at Cherbourg, some 300 kms NW of Brisbane. Chronic hearing conditions are a serious issue within rural and remote indigenous communities with up to 85-90% of children having hearing problems. ­Health-e-Screen4Kids aims to reach up to 90% of indigenous children on a regular basis, and screening them for hearing and sight issues. Data is fed to the Centre for Online Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and consulting specialists can decide on the best medical intervention treatment required for each child. It is hoped that this cost-effective, highly efficient health-screening program, conducted by train indigenous healthcare workers, will be rolled out throughout Queensland in the future – and perhaps nationwide, where these health issues are prevalent.


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