About

What is Perth Kids Hub?

Perth Kids Hub is a Western Australian–based online resource created to help families find the right paediatricians, therapists, and supports for their children.

It exists because navigating developmental, learning, and mental health needs in kids can be confusing, overwhelming, and incredibly time-consuming, especially when waitlists are long and it feels like no one is taking new clients.

Perth Kids Hub is not a big organisation or government service.

It’s a small, mum‑run hub built from lived experience, backed by careful research and conversations with professionals, and designed specifically for families in Perth and across WA.

The goal is simple: to make it easier and faster for parents and carers to build a trusted team around their child.

Perth Kids Hub is an online information and referral hub that helps families:

Find paediatricians, child psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists and other paediatric specialists in Perth and WA
Search for support by concern, such as autism, ADHD, anxiety, learning difficulties, behaviour, emotional regulation, eating issues, trauma or mental health
Discover group programs, workshops, and activities for kids and teens, including neurodiversity-affirming and all-abilities options
Understand how the paediatric system works, what different professionals do, and what questions to ask

The goal is simple: to make it easier and faster for parents and carers to build a trusted team around their child—without spending hours lost in Google tabs or being stuck on endless waitlists they didn’t even know they were joining.

The story behind Perth Kids Hub

Perth Kids Hub grew out of my own family’s story.

I’m a Perth mum whose first child was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. That diagnosis pulled us into the world of paediatric specialists, allied health, hospital appointments, assessments, reports, and acronyms I’d never heard of before.

Over the years, I became an accidental “mystery shopper” of the Perth paediatric system, trying to find the right professionals, chasing referrals, sitting on waitlists, and learning (often the hard way) how fragmented and confusing it can be when your child needs extra support.

Along the way I met brilliant, compassionate clinicians and therapists doing incredible work. But I also saw how hard it was for families to:

Know who to see, in what order, and why
Work out what was evidence-based versus what was just good marketing
Find providers who were actually taking new clients
Understand diagnoses like autism, ADHD, anxiety, learning difficulties or executive function challenges in a way that felt hopeful and practical

Perth Kids Hub was born from a simple question:

“If I’ve had to work this hard to find good information and good people, how many other families are quietly struggling to do the same?”

This hub is my attempt to take what I’ve learned through my child, my family, and many conversations with clinicians and make it easier for the next family coming through.

who i am

Pia Hazelwood, Mum & Founder

I’m Pia, the mum behind Perth Kids Hub.

I’m not a doctor, psychologist or therapist. I’m a parent who has spent years in waiting rooms, juggling referrals, reading research papers at midnight, and trying to understand how my child’s brain and body work so I can support them better.

My role is to: