Acknowledgements

This website was produced by a partnership of the following organisations:

• Yarra Valley Community Health

• Shire of Yarra Ranges

  • Youth Services

  • Maternal and Child Health

  • Family and Children’s Services

• Women’s Health East

• Box Hill Hospital Health Promotion Unit

• 16- 25 Young Mums Group

• Connections Child Youth and Family Services

• Department of Education, Early Childhood Development. Eastern Metropolitan Region

The following contributions are also acknowledged:

• young women who participated in the focus groups and consultation process. Special thanks to young mums Melissa MacPherson and Sarah Smith who participated in the Working Group and provided valuable input into the development of the resource.

• Wellington Best Start Partnership for permission to use the Essential Pregnancy Information booklet that has been used as a basis for this resource.

• Department of Education, Early Childhood Development Eastern Metropolitan Region – Public Health Program and Yarra Ranges Best Start Programs for providing funding for this resource.

Yarra Ranges Best Start is an early intervention project that aims to improve the health, development, learning and wellbeing of children from conception to 8 years of age. Best Start is a whole of government initiative under the auspices of the Department of Education, Early Childhood Development in partnership with the Shire of Yarra Ranges and Community Organisations. 

A note about this website
All information is accurate at time of publishing, November 2007.

We hope that you find this information useful; however it is still important that you check any medical and legal details before taking action. The listed agencies in this book should be able to help you make the decisions that are right for you.