The Community Child Health and Disability Service (CCHADS) provides integrated healthcare services to children, young people and their families who live in the Central Auckland area. The area is bordered by Point Chevalier, Avondale, Blockhouse Bay, Otahuhu, Mt Wellington, Glen Innes, the Eastern Bays and the Gulf Islands.
The service is made up of three multidisciplinary teams:
- Child and Youth Health Team (see separate Healthpoint entry)
- Child Development Team (see separate Healthpoint entry)
- Early Childhood Health Team (see separate Healthpoint entry)
The Community Child Health and Disability Service is part of Starship Children’s Health. Contracts are held with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Development, and Auckland District Health Board Strategy and Funding. CCHADS offers a mix of disability support, health promotion and personal healthcare programmes in a variety of settings including kohanga reo, pacific language nests, early childhood centres, schools, homes and community centres.
These services are offered to:
- Maximise the healthy development of children in a culturally appropriate manner by the provision of primary healthcare
- Facilitate health promotion in school, pre-school and community settings; including the Health Promoting Schools programme
- Identify those families where children are at risk and to provide targeted services in these instances
- Provide therapy services to children with disabilities and assist them to integrate into home and educational settings in a functionally independent manner
- Provide maori tamariki, rangatahi and whanau with health promotion and personal care services which facilitate their improved health status.
These services are free to New Zealand residents.