Bendigo Community Health Services (BCHS)

The Family and Children Program provides four services.

Family Services
helping families identify what's important to them and their children and develop a clear plan of action and support them to reach their goal. Help offered includes:

• Helping parents identify their goals with regard to their own and their family’s needs.
• Supporting parents with their parenting skills and strategies to increase parenting confidence.
• Providing parents with information about setting boundaries, implementing consequences, and maintaining routines for their children.
• Supporting parents to discuss their individual or family needs by using other services which may be able to help.
• Provide information, education, advocacy, and resources which may help.

Early intervention
caring for families with children 0-7 with a developmental delay or disability. The program will provide you with information, support and resources, individual programs, group sessions, support to families and children in the transition process to pre-school or school, occupational therapy, specialist teaching, speech pathology and more. For more information go to https://www.bchs.com.au/early-intervention

Child health invest program
helping children with complex behaviours, developmental delays, Autism Spectrum Disorder and much more. For more information go to https://www.bchs.com.au/child-health-investment-program

Children’s counselling service
To find out more information please visit the Mental Health (Primary) directory listing.

Referral Pathway

Each service has a different referral pathway.