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Urgent change needed to Close the Gap

There is an urgent need for improved cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in mental healthcare, new research has revealed.

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Leading researchers to explore online abuse in regions

Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia are working with boys and young men in regional areas to help stamp out technology-based abuse of girls and young women.

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As WA's first research collaboration dedicated to mental health, we work across The Kids Research Institute Australia and beyond to do the research that the community wants to see happen.

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New research shows sports gambling a ‘gateway’ for young men into gambling problems

Sport and fantasy sport gambling can lead to a higher risk of problem gambling behaviour in young men, new research has found.

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Embrace-led roundtable talk trauma-informed care

Embrace's Co-Directors have led a roundtable at Government House on the benefits of trauma-informed care

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Opinion: We need more education around women's health

We asked our podcast guest Hayley to recount her experiences navigating the healthcare system for Fibroid Awareness Month.

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Prompting cultural safety in mental healthcare

Read stories created by members of the Embrace cultural safety project's Aboriginal Advisory Group members that align with yarning cards to help young people express themselves.

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Frangipani Family Day a huge success!

CliniKids held its inaugural Frangipani Family Day recently – an event organised to honour the wonderful contribution of its much loved and dearly missed colleague, the late Kate Sorensen.

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Led by some of the top mental health researchers in Australia, Embrace brings together a network of researchers and partners to find new ways to help kids at the lowest times in their lives.

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Beyond Seizures as an Outcome Measure: A Global Severity Scoring System for CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder

CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) is a rare developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) associated with multiple impairments and comorbidities. Outcome measures for disease-modifying clinical trials for DEEs should measurably capture a spectrum of caregiver priorities and be externally validated.