Connecting with Frankston families: examining service use for families in Frankston North, Karingal and Carrum Downs

This report explores ways to strengthen the provision of services to ‘hard to reach’ families in Frankston North, Karingal and Carrum Downs, suburbs on Melbourne’s outer metropolitan fringe.

Parents and service staff were interviewed about factors which hindered or encouraged the use of services such as maternal and child health centres, dental services and child care.