HeartKids Australia

Embracing a Future for All HeartKids

HeartKids Australia works to:

• Support families who have a child with heart disease
• Reduce the incidence of Childhood Heart Disease
• Decrease the mortality rates for Childhood Heart Disease

We do this by:

• Employing Family Support Coordinators in each of the major
• children’s hospitals throughout Australia
• Running Family and Teen activities
• Funding Research into CHD
• Providing equipment and facilities
• Assisting families with travel and accommodation needs
• Commissioning a White Paper into the needs of CHD from a    clinical and community perspective
• Advocating the needs of CHD to Government