Progress on Families First: a support network for families raising children

Dianne Hudson

Abstract

Research shows that significant improvements in a child’s health, education and welfare can be sustained when early intervention and support services are provided. This article describes Families First, a strategy sponsored by the NSW Government to re-shape and develop prevention and early intervention services, which help parents and communities sustain their children’s health and wellbeing in the long term.

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 11(5) 77 - 79 (2000) doi:10.1071/NB00038