News and Events

The Board of Tweddle Child & Family Health Service is pleased to invite interested members of the public to attend its 100th Annual General Meeting. The AGM will take place on Wednesday 24th February between 3pm and 4pm. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the onsite...

Following a year of virtual groups and online support, the Tweddle team are all hands on deck, with many programs making a welcome return to face to face service delivery in 2021. Telehealth, which was a game changer in 2020, will thankfully remain. While social...

From the CEO Dear friends, More than ever, this year has been about adversity, resilience and reframing. As the State of Emergency was declared, expectant and new parents turned to Tweddle with unease and distress. Telehealth, online parenting groups and childbirth...

Tweddle will be closing for business at midday on Wednesday the 23rd of December and reopening on Monday 18th of January. Tweddle’s MyTime groups align with school terms so will commence in the first week of February. For many parents, this is your first year with a...

We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to access the early parenting centre at Tweddle. Celeste is our first child. The early months were very challenging for us, as we worked through my birth trauma, difficulties with breastfeeding, some personal losses in...

Tweddle welcomes the Productivity Commission Mental Health Inquiry findings and recommendations, especially the priority reforms that highlight the needs of parents with babies and young children. The Productivity Commission’s Mental Health Inquiry found that Mental...

This year Tweddle will be observing and celebrating NAIDOC Week (8-15th November 2020). The NAIDOC 2020 week theme - Always Was, Always Will Be, recognises and celebrates that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years....

This week is both Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week and Perinatal Mental Health Week 2020 (8-14th Nov). Tweddle joins a chorus of government, industry and community voices to raise awareness of perinatal mental health. As a public hospital supporting...

A study exploring the outcomes of a home visiting program for vulnerable babies, toddlers and parents has gathered rich evidence to support future at-risk families and life-changing interventions. The program, Tweddle’s Home Parenting Education and Support (HoPES), is...