The CEIH through the Statewide Chronic Pain Clinical Network, and with the support of the Adolescent Statewide Clinical Network, are collaborating on a project led by the University of South Australia and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics to develop a community-based multidisciplinary model of care for adolescents with chronic pain and their families. The model of care aims to provide early support for adolescents with chronic pain and their families, improve mental health and health self-efficacy, reduce school absence, reduce opioid use, improve functional ability, and prevent the progression of pain into adulthood and associated long term disability and other chronic health problems.
Young people and their families will be involved throughout the development of the Model of Care.
For more information about the project’s funding partners, visit Australian Pain Society and COPS for Kids.