New Child Youth Hub Open
A new Child, Youth and Family Hub providing modern facilities to support families on the Bellarine is now open in the Kingston Estate in Ocean Grove.
The Child, Youth and Family Hub has been built to support the health, development and wellbeing of local children and young people. The hub features light open spaces including indoor and outdoor therapy spaces and new sensory equipment.
Services operating from the new Bellarine Community Health hub include children’s speech pathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and children’s mental health services including play therapy with some youth services to also be offered from the site.
“This new hub will provide a streamlined care pathway for families on the Bellarine and our team are excited to begin providing services from a purpose-built facility with children, young people and families at the heart of its design,” said BCH Executive Director of Child, Youth and Families Liz Womersley.
BCH understands that access to some services can be limited on the Bellarine.
“We are exploring what opportunities there might be to have other child, youth and family related services co-locate at the hub because we want this venue to be able to support families as much as possible,” said Ms Womersley.
The project has been designed in two stages, but funding has only been secured for stage one, which is now complete. BCH is actively seeking funding, including grants, for construction of stage two which will further enhance the range of services which can be offered from the Hub.
Funding for stage one of the project was provided through the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, and the Anthony Costa Foundation, with the land in Kingston Estate Ocean Grove generously donated by the Corless Family Trust. The Child, Youth and Family Hub was designed by Four18 Architecture and built by Loaram Constructions
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