Partner With Us to Encourage Timely Childhood Immunisations
The annual Immunisation Bike Competition is back this year to help increase childhood immunisation rates in Western Sydney. To incentivise families to immunise their children on time, every child who receives their 12-month, 18-month or four-year-old immunisation from a participating practice can enter a prize draw to win a bike and helmet. During the last […]
Celebrating Healthy Children in Western Sydney
Our annual Immunisation Bike Competition began in 2011 to incentivise parents to immunise their children on time and improve childhood immunisation rates in Western Sydney. We would like to thank the 110 general practices which partnered with us in our latest campaign period (1 October 2023 to 31 January 2024), especially to the following practices […]
Boosting Wellbeing and Resilience through Community Grants
Earlier this year, we welcomed applications for our Wellbeing and Resilience Grant program. After the loss and distress resulting from the 2022 floods, these grants are designed to support flood-affected communities in Western Sydney to rebuild a sense of community, build social connectedness, improve community health and wellbeing and support future emergency response preparedness. We’re […]
Encouraging Childhood Immunisation in Western Sydney and CALD Communities
Our annual Immunisation Bike Competition has officially started. This year, WentWest is celebrating eleven years of running the Immunisation Bike Competition in Western Sydney. Since the annual competition was developed in 2011, there have been 16,422 children immunised through the competition. How Practices Can Get Involved Every child who receives their 12-month, 18-month or four-year-old […]
Empowering Students to Build Healthier Futures
SALSA is a peer education and leadership program designed to motivate high school students in Western Sydney to maintain a healthy lifestyle and increase their physical activity. The award-winning project trains university students as SALSA educators, and they, in turn, coach high school students to be Peer Leaders for younger students. The program is run […]
Supporting Infant Mental Health: Free Interactive Workshop with Emerging Minds
What is Infant Mental Health? Infant mental health relates to how infants experience the world around them. It is an infant’s ‘capacity to experience, regulate, and express emotions, form close and secure relationships, explore the environment and learn’[i]. Unlike older children and adults, infants are unable to regulate their emotions on their own and need […]
WentWest Stories, St John of God: Tala’s story
St John of God Raphael Services provides free personalised counselling, group therapy and psychiatric support for parents and families dealing with the emotional challenges of pregnancy, early parenthood, prenatal testing and pregnancy loss. Tala* is 27 years old and a mother of a three-month-old daughter. She was referred to St John of God […]
WentWest Stories, KEYS: Sharon’s Story
The Western Sydney Kids Early Years (KEYS) Network is the first of its kind in New South Wales. It is designed to align social and health sector agendas to deliver cohesive client services. KEYS relies on multi-sector collaboration to develop a coordinated care model for those stuck in a cycle of disadvantage. The KEYS Network is […]
The KEYS Network Helping Disadvantaged Families in Western Sydney
26 May 2022 We are happy to announce that Western Sydney Kids Early Years (KEYS) Network has coordinated valuable assistance to over 200 disadvantaged families. Developed in 2021, KEYS has worked to assist vulnerable families with young children in Western Sydney by providing a streamlined connection with help and resources to make significant improvements to […]
WentWest Stories, KEYS: Louise’s Story
The Western Sydney Kids Early Years (KEYS) Network is the first of its kind in New South Wales. It is designed to align social and health sector agendas to deliver cohesive client services. KEYS relies on multi-sector collaboration to develop a coordinated care model for those stuck in a cycle of disadvantage. The KEYS Network […]