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Foster care

• About foster and kinship care
  • What is foster care?
  • What is kinship care?
  • Who needs care?
  • Provisionally approved carers
  • Specialist foster care
  • Non family-based care
• Becoming a carer
  • Expression of interest
    • Register your interest
  • Questions to consider
  • Rewards and challenges
  • Steps to becoming a carer
• Blue cards for carers
  • Blue cards for existing carers and their adult household members
• Carer training
  • Foster carer training
    • Foreword
    • Procedures and guidelines
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Orientation
    • Learning outcomes
    • Pre-service training
    • Learning journal
    • Standard training
    • Advanced training
    • Recognition of prior learning
    • Acknowledgments
    • Forms and templates
  • Kinship carer training
• Children and young people
  • Transitioning from care
  • Info kit for children and young people in care
    • Family group meeting (FGM)
    • Case plan
    • Education support plan (ESP)
    • Child health passport (CHP)
    • Transition from care (TFC)
    • Matters of concern (MOC)
    • Complaints
  • Children and young people's participation strategy
• Support for carers
  • Carer handbook
  • Federal Government allowances and benefits
  • Foster and kinship care support line
  • Foster and Kinship Carer Card
    • Business Discount Directory
      • Tips on using the card
      • Nominate a business
    • Information for businesses
      • Business proposal application form
      • Terms and conditions
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Financial support
  • Support care
  • Support groups
• Rights and responsibilities
  • Standards of care
  • Statement of commitment
  • Charter of rights for a child in care
  • United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Case planning for a child in care
  • Child health passport
  • Children and young people with disabilities
  • Education support plans
  • Family contact and reunification
  • Long-term guardianship
  • Placement Agreements
  • Transition from care
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
  • Child placement principle
  • Recognised Entities
• Regulation of care
  • Screening and assessment
  • Matters of concern
  • Community Visitors
• Contacts
  • Community foster care agencies
  • Indigenous foster care agencies
  • Peak bodies and advocacy groups
  • Foster and Kinship Carer Card contacts
• Library

Child health passport (CHP)

What is a CHP?

Your CHP is a folder that has information in it about your health.

What is it used for?

• to give your carer information about your health so they can help to meet your health needs
• to help the department and your parents (if this is okay) understand your health and help you to be healthy.

How do I get a CHP?

• your carer will take you to your doctor for a check-up
• when you visit the doctor, they may suggest that you see other types of doctors (like a dentist or an eye doctor) to help you be healthy
• all the information from your visit to your doctor is put in your white CHP folder.

What happens then?

You visit your doctor at least once a year for a check-up and any new info about your health will be added to your CHP folder.

Who looks after my CHP folder?

Your CHP is given to your carer.

How can I be involved?

• if you want to see your CHP ask your child safety officer (CSO) or carer
• if you think the CHP is missing any important information about your health tell your carer or CSO
• if you move placements remind your carer that your CHP should come with you to your new placement
• to find out more about CHPs you can talk to your:
  • CSO
  • carer
  • youth worker
  • community visitor.

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Last updated

15 January 2009