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  • Obang says "I want to be a bridge between my community and the Child and Adolescent Health Service, sharing essential health information and building awareness about the support and services available".
    Obang helps migrant and refugee families navigate health services 29 June 2026 Obang Girma Othow was born in Ethiopia, and came to Australia in October 2016 from a refugee camp in Kenya. On arrival, he was amazed by the quality of the services and healthcare available for his children and family. As a father of twins who were born preterm, he has firsthand experience of the health service as a parent. These experiences motivated Obang to become a Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) Community Ambassador. “I have a deep desire to give back to the community,” he said. Having seen the quality of care and services available for migrant and refugee families, Obang is eager to ensure more people in his community are aware and know how to access help when they need it. “I want to be a bridge between the system and CAHS,” he said. “I will be proactively sharing essential information with the communities I represent, making sure families ...
  • Padmini says "Ensuring that no child's wellbeing is compromised because of cultural or linguistic misunderstanding. Every child deserves safe, compassionate and culturally response healthcare, and I am committed to helping make that a reality".
    Meet CAHS Community Ambassador Padmini Saxena 20 June 2026 For over two decades, Padmini Saxena has worked in Western Australian schools as a teacher, supporting children and families from a wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. This grounding and her own lived experience fuel her goal to ensure families from all cultural backgrounds feel informed, empowered and supported when navigating the health system. This also drove Padmin...
  • CAHS Nurse of the Year Winner Natalie with Kym from the West Perth Rotary Club
    Winner announced at Rotary-CAHS Nurse of the Year awards 19 June 2026 The Rotary-Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAHS) Nurse of the Year awards celebrating excellence in nursing were held at Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) on 18 June. The Nurse of the Year award recognises the outstanding performance of a nurse who demonstrates commitment to an excellent standard of practice and professionalism and provides high quality, safe, evidence based, child and family...
  • Introducing CAHS Community Ambassadors "My Why?"
    Meet the voices shaping better care for families: introducing My Why? 16 June 2026 At the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS), this work is strengthened by our Community Ambassadors - a dedicated group who partner with us by sharing their lived experience, cultural knowledge and insights to help improve care for children, young people and families across our community.
  • A family holding up their artwork created during the workshop.
    Children and families help shape artworks for WA’s first children’s hospice 08 June 2026 Earlier this month, children, families and volunteers contributed to creative workshops, helping shape integrated glass artworks for Sandcastles (Boodja Mia), WA’s first purpose-built children’s hospice.

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  • Liz Downing
    International Day of the Midwife 2020 05 May 2020 On the International Day of the Midwife 2020, CAHS formally welcomes midwives to our service following the transition of Neonatology to CAHS. Meet Liz Downing Liz is one of our registered CAHS midwives. With over 30 years of nursing experience, she has worked in Neonatal services both interstate and locally in Perth. Tell us about your background and how you became a midwife I started as a student nurse at St John of God Hospital in 1981. In 1991, I started working at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children as a neonatal trained nurse. Working at PMH was a highlight of my career as I have since made life-long friends! What do you love the most about your job? I get great job satisfaction in helping mothers through really tough times. The post-natal period can be rather stressful so being able to support Mum, baby and the whole family is a really rewarding aspect of what I get to do.
  • Katie McKenzie and Belle wash their hands at a sink in a patient room
    How to wash your hands 05 May 2020 Join Nurse Katie and Belle as they show you how to wash your hands for World Hand Hygiene Day!
  • Tahlia
    Our patient experience champions: Meet Tahlia Harris 01 May 2020 Patient Experience Week is an opportunity to celebrate healthcare staff who have an impact on the patient experience, every day. This year, we are taking a minute to acknowledge those who are going above and beyond in our vision of healthy kids, healthy communities! Meet Tahlia Harris Registered Nurse, Perth Children's Hospital "Tahlia has intermittently cared for our son over the past five months and we are incredibly impressed with her dedication to making his treatment as stress free and efficient as possible. All nurses on Ward 1A are amazing, Tahlia goes above and beyond on all occasions. She is aware of our son's stresses and reactions to various treatments and actively manages to mitigate and minimise distress for him. She always has our interest as parents at heart, asking what she can be doing differently or better for our son. We know when we have Tahlia rostered on, our time...
  • ArnicaGregory
    Our patient experience champions: Meet Arnica Gregory 30 April 2020 Patient Experience Week is an opportunity to celebrate healthcare staff who have an impact on the patient experience, every day. This year, we are taking a minute to acknowledge those who are going above and beyond in our vision of healthy kids, healthy communities! Meet Arnica Gregory Child Health Nurse, Community Health "I attended Arnica's mother's group in Atwell as my local mothers' group didn't provide educational information. Arnica's session was well structured and informative with practical techniques which worked trying to get my newborn to sleep. The group was for Chinese speaking mums. Although I don't have any problems with English after living in Australia since I was a teen, I can see the benefits to the Chinese speaking community. Arnica is knowledgeable and willing to help in anyway." - Compliment from mothers' group member How long have you worked for CAHS? I have worke...
  • Patient experience survey
    Patient Experience survey 28 April 2020 Help us create our Patient Experience survey Perth Children’s Hospital is working to adapt the Australian Hospital Patient Experience Question Set to provide for every parent or carer of an inpatient when they stay at PCH. We are inviting parents or carers to help us develop this survey. Contact Cathy on 6456 5155 or email cahs.research@health.wa.gov.au to participate in a 15 to 30 minute telephone interview.
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