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Partnership between GSK, AH&MRC and NSW Health to distribute Ventolin to bushfire smoke affected Aboriginal communities
Our Members, their staff and their communities have been directly impacted by the bushfire emergencies in NSW. Despite this trauma, our Member Services are playing a crucial role in providing immediate support for their affected…
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Your Health Your Future at Battle of the Countries 2020
The Battle of the Countries made its inaugural debut in 2019 and the 2nd annual Battle of the Countries was held this year at Croom Regional Sporting Complex, NSW. The Illawarra Titans Rugby League Football Club…
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Tharawal Art Therapy Program: Creating a Safe Place for Community Members to Heal
The Art Therapy Program was created by Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation in 2013 for the purpose of providing community members with a safe place to yarn. It is a non-clinical setting where vulnerable members of the…
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Deadly Doctors Share Insights From The Sector
On the 28th of November 2019, the AH&MRC hosted the Deadly Doctors Forum as part of the Rural Doctors Network for our Member Services. A range of topics were presented by many wonderful speakers. The overarching…
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Highlights from the Aboriginal Mental Health and Wellbeing Forum
On the 27th and 28th of November, AH&MRC co-hosted the NSW Aboriginal Mental and Wellbeing Workforce Forum in partnership with the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network. The Forum brought together Aboriginal Mental Health…
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Oceania Conference – Making Tobacco Control a Priority
This year, the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference was hosted on Gadigal land in Sydney on the 22-24 October 2019. Held biennially, the Conference provided a unique opportunity for a ‘meeting of minds’, bringing together Tobacco…
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Katungul’s Wellbeing Centre – Healthy mind, body, spirit
On the 24th of September AH&MRC visited Katungul’s Bateman’s Bay Service to see their Social Wellbeing Centre in action. The Wellbeing Centre focuses on community-orientated programs which support Aboriginal people with or at risk of…
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Representing Your Health Your Future at the Aunty Jeans Koori Mini Olympics
The Aunty Jeans Program was originally founded by the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Aboriginal Chronic Care Unit, in memory of a well-respected local elder who was passionate about Aboriginal health, advocacy and culture. The…
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The secret to The Glen Centre’s success
Tucked away near The Chittaway Point Trail, surrounded by wide open spaces and trees is The Glen Centre. The only male specific Central Coast Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre. The Glen is proud to take…
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UNICEF Youth Living with Drought Summit: The Impact of Drought Runs Deep
From the 9th – 11th of October AH&MRC attended the UNICEF Youth Living with Drought Summit 2019. Each day was an opportunity for young people from across NSW to discuss the impact that drought has had on…
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Strong Women, Strong Culture: Community Control Success Stories at Waminda
It’s a crisp, Spring morning for the visit to Waminda South Coast Women’s Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation. There’s been rain, so the pastures and bushland surrounding the NSW South Coast town of Nowra are lush and…
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The Deadly Ninja Warrior scored goals at the 2019 Koori Knockout
The Your Health Your Future (YHYF) Ambassador Jack Wilson, the ‘’Deadly Ninja Warrior’’ scored goals at the 2019 Koori Knock Out (KKO) in Tuggerah on the Central Coast of NSW. With little time and not…
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Families in focus: Community Control Success Stories at RivMed
“Yamma dummarung” the sign reads. Welcome to the land of the three rivers. Welcome to Wiradjuri country. It’s the first thing you see as you walk through any entranceway here, a very special campus of sorts…
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Loving people back to life: success stories in community control at Weigelli
Tucked away on reclaimed farmland outside Cowra, there’s something rather special going on. People who have been marginalised are finding a way back into the life they want to lead. But it’s no miracle. Here,…
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A primary care oasis: Community Control success stories at Walgett AMS
Driving through Gamilaraay country in the remotest reaches of northwestern NSW, the single most striking feature is the dry; vast expanses of parched land. At the Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service, the walls are beginning to…
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