On 28 and 29 August, we joined over 40 maternity teams from across Australia at Sydney Olympic Park for the second Every Week Counts II Learning Session. This session is a key learning opportunity in the national effort to safely prevent preterm and early term birth.
The two-day program featured powerful stories from consumers with lived experience. Hospital teams also shared their wins and challenges in driving change.
One notable highlight was the session by Professor Cath Chamberlain, Dr Kim Jones, and Storm Henry: Recreating Safer and Sacred Care: Snapshot of Trauma-Informed Care When Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families. The session included the introduction of the Replanting the Birthing Trees toolkit – a key resource designed to help maternity services implement and improve culturally responsive, trauma-aware and healing-informed continuity of care(r).
