Maternal and Child Health Resources
On this page:
- Child Development Information System (CDIS)
- MCH Qualification Flowchart
- Consent
- MARAMIS
- Practice
- Aspiring MCH students
- KAS visit links
Child Development Information System (CDIS)
This site contains limited information in regards to CDIS – currently available are the CDIS tutorials for training of the MCH sector in the changes to CDIS. For all other information please refer to the Department of Health & Human Services website.
MCH Qualification Flowchart
Consent
MARAMIS
- Information sharing schemes and MARAM online learning
- MAV MARAM and Information Sharing Policy Statement - (Word - 250KB)
- MAV MARAM Information Sharing Policy Guidance for Councils - (Word - 450KB)
- MCH Information Sharing Correspondence Template - Making a Request (Word - 2.4MB)
- MCH Information Sharing Correspondence Template - Proactively Sharing (Word - 2.4MB)
- MCH Information Sharing Correspondence Template - Responding to a Request (Word - 2.4MB)
- MCH Information Sharing Correspondence Template - Update to Responder (Word - 2.4MB)
- CDIS Process Guidance for Information Sharing
- Xpedite Process Guidance for Information Sharing
- MCH Information Sharing Toolkit (PDF - 657KB)
- MCH Information Sharing Toolkit (Word - 429KB)
- Guides, templates and tools for Information Sharing and MARAM
- Victoria Police FVIS CIS request form (Word - 37KB)
- Victoria Police Information Sharing process (Word - 33KB)
- DHHS FVISS CISS Request Form - (Word - 105KB)
Practice
- Enhanced MCH Online Session - Vimeo video
- Practice Note 1 Learnings from the March 2016 Coronial Investigation into the death of Baby D (Word - 62KB)
- MCH Transition to Practice Guidelines (PDF - 1.05MB)Enhanced MCH Guidelines 2018 (PDF - 2.3MB)
- Enhanced MCH Guidelines 2018 (Word - 710KB)
- Privacy fact sheet for families using the MCH service (Word - 378KB)Privacy framework - MCH Services (Word - 349KB)
- Mandatory Reporting Fact Sheet
- MAV Mandatory Reporting Presentation 2019
Aspiring MCH students
- Clinical Place Availability 2021 and 2022 - 19 Nov 2020 (Excel - 17KB)
- Federation University - Graduate Diploma of Health (Child and Family Health) - FAQ 2021 (Word - 392KB)
- La Trobe University - FAQ for Child Family and Community applicants 2021 (Word - 530KB)
- LGA Guidelines for MCH Clinical Places 2021 (Word - 73.3KB)
- MCH Applicant Information Pack and EOI 2021-22 (Word - 36KB)
- RMIT University - Graduate Diploma in Child & Family Health Nursing - FAQs 2021 (PDF - 339KB)
KAS visit links
The NEW KAS visit links are shortened to be sent by email/SMS to families and documented in child’s notes and direct families to the nominated KAS visit web page.
Please inform families that the KAS tip sheet are now located on the 2nd or 3rd banner of the web page under the “Tip sheets for this visit”.
KAS visit | KAS visit link | Tip sheets (KAS packs) |
|---|---|---|
Home visit | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-1st-visit | Yes |
2 week | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-2weeks | Yes |
4 week | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-4weeks | Yes |
8 week | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-8weeks | No |
4 month | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-4months | Yes |
8 month | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-8months | Yes |
12 month | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-12months | Yes |
18 month | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-18months | Yes |
2 year | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-2years | Yes |
3 ½ year | https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/MCH-KAS-3-and-a-half-years | Yes |