H4L Programs

Healthy For Life

We are pleased to announce that we have a Midwife working with us at the Healthy for Life Building. She has joined us for a short period of time and we will be looking to fill this position with a full-time midwife soon.

Her Name is Jenna Webber.

Jenna is available to all Mums that are expecting a baby, or are trying to have a baby you can come to H4L and have a chat with her. She will also be available to assist with any feeding concerns, health for you baby for the first six weeks. Jenna will also be doing education programs for mums if they have any problems at home just ask Jenna.

Other things that will be happening at the Healthy for Life

 Immunisations  Playgroup  Woman’s Health Checks

So all you Mother’s out there with children between the ages of 0 -5 you are welcome to come to the H4L have a coffee /Tea and a chat.

Women’s Program

On Thursday the 5th of May we introduced our new midwife Jenna to Women of Umoona as we celebrated Mother’s Day. It was a beautiful morning where Jenna treated our Mothers to a hand massage whilst she chatted about the needs of the community and worked on building rapport. Together we enjoyed a lunch prepared by the wonderful social workers at the Drug and Alcohol service which included some tasty Roo tail. Jenna will be working alongside our Child Health Nurse Theresa at the Healthy for Life Centre to develop a Children and Caregivers program for 0-5 year olds. Some programs we are working on include childbirth preparation classes, introducing solids cooking classes, emotional wellbeing activities and playgroup just to name a few. After not having our Healthy for life building since January due to Covid we are very happy to welcome you all back for care and advice. Please feel free to drop in and say hi and let us know what we can do for you.

H4L Schedule

June 2022

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

1 2 3 4

Child Health Check / Immunisation Program plan + preparation

5 6

Birth Preparation Class 1

10AM to 12PM 7

0-5 Years

Music + Rhyme Time

12 13 Queen’s Birthday 14

0-5 Years

Music + Rhyme Time 8

0-5 Years

Dental Health Session (9:30AM to 10:30AM) 9

Child Health Check / Immunisation

15 16

Child Health Check / Immunisation 10

Program plan + preparation 11

17

Program plan + preparation 18

19 20

Birth Preparation Class 2

10AM to 12PM

26 27

Birth Preparation Class 3

10AM to 12PM 21

Introducing Solids to babies cooking class

28

Birth Preparation Class 4

10AM to 12PM 22 23

Women Health Checks + Pamper Day

29 30

Child Health Check / Immunisation 24

Program plan + preparation 25

SEWB / Mother’s Day

One thing we can be sure of in life is changes. Nothing ever stays the same. The past three months has seen the departure of some of our long- serving health professionals for family and personal reasons. We said goodbye to Jasmeet Kaur, Carmel Agrazada and Donna Bailes. The need for health service delivery in our community did not change though and as a health service we tried to engage locum staff to fill in the gaps while we recruited. Unfortunately, due to high demand for health professionals Australia-wide because of COVID, there has been a lag in locums starting. We have had to call upon our Aboriginal health worker staff and even our CEO to bridge the gap before the locum workforce started. We just wanted to say thank you to our CEO Priscilla Larkins, AHP Josie Warrior, AHWs Damian Riessen, Elaine O’Toole, Misho Miller and our trainees for stepping in. We also want to thank our midwife Jenna Webber and our RN Therasa Joseph for capably carrying the load when we were so short-staffed even on top of the requirements of usual workload, program delivery and continuous training. This what continuous service to the community and team work is about.