Aboriginal Wellness Workers

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Providing local access to training and clinical exposure for Aboriginal Wellness Worker Trainees

The Challenge

There is a chronic shortage of mental health professionals in rural and remote Australia, particularly those with the skills and cultural understandings to safely engage with Aboriginal people experiencing suicidal ideation.

Theory of Change

Growing the workforce of Aboriginal Wellness Workers through training and clinical expsoure in rural areas will improve access to appropriate and cutlurally safe mental health care and reduce the prevalance of suicide in rural Aboriginal communities.

Anticipated Outcomes

Short-Intermediate Term

Number of Aboriginal Wellness Worker Trainees Accepted into Program
Number of Aboriginal Wellness Worker Graduates
Self-reported satisfaction with quality of training

Long Term

Reduction in the prevalance of suicide among rural Aboriginal people.

Progress

Participation

3

Number of Aboriginal Wellness Worker Trainees Accepted into Program

Success

-

Number of Aboriginal Wellness Worker Graduates

Satisfaction

-

Self-reported satisfaction with quality of training

LAST UPDATED:

15 April 2024

NOTES:

Impacts

New Chair and Deputy of Healthy Communities Foundation

New Chair and Deputy of Healthy Communities Foundation

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Telehealth is as old as the telephone: Community consultation and literacy remain key

Rural LGBTIQ+ must be counted

Rural LGBTIQ+ must be counted

Partners

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Contact

Cassie Talbot, Program Manager, Healthy Minds (0422 407 915)

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