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Aremella Arratyenye-ileme: Doing It Right

Project aims

To improve research knowledge exchange, generation and translation leading to Aboriginal community members, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and their Board members having more control over health research, its outcomes and benefits in central Australia. 

Objectives

  1. Assist Aboriginal community members, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress health service and Board members to improve their understanding of health research processes and outcomes. 
  2. Generate research knowledge by and for Aboriginal community and Congress Board members. 
  3. Empower community members in understanding research and its benefits. 
  4. Implement knowledge translational activities that can improve service delivery. 
  5. Provide employment and leadership opportunities for Aboriginal researchers.
  6. Support Congress Board by providing guidelines to assess, record and monitor knowledge translation activities within Congress. 
  7. Achieve best practice in meaningful partnered research that will benefit community-controlled services and clients and be shared with other ACCHS.  

Project team 

Project Leader: Dr Bronwyn Silver 

Project partners:

Administering organisation: Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Aboriginal Corporation 

Project timeline: 31 December 2017—30 April 2019

Methodology 

Project progressed using a community-based participatory research method and generated research knowledge to be used by both Congress and the community.

Project findings 

The project found that the new knowledge generated empowered the Board members in understanding research, monitoring research, and ownership of project outcomes. While this project is just the beginning of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations taking control of the Aboriginal health research agenda, it is anticipated that there will be long term benefits through the extension of research protocols specific to central Australia that all researchers abide by when engaging communities, implementing research, as well as conducting and negotiating use of research outcomes.   

Project outcomes 

 

Knowledge  

  • Generated research knowledge by and for Aboriginal community and health service board members.  

  • Improved understanding of how Congress staff and health researchers can work together in equitable partnerships.  

  • Provided information to the public about making informed decisions before participating in research and understanding research from the perspective of the community.  

  

Awareness  

  • An animation was filmed and presented to the public to show the core values of research at Congress.  

  • Project will likely benefit other Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in other regions out of Central Australia as the project findings will be shared.  

  • Developed resources from this project will enable Congress staff and community members to understand research processes and research findings.  

  

Behaviour  

  • Provided an atmosphere for continued equitable partnerships between Congress staff and health researchers.   

  • Improved understanding of how to tailor research processes to fit within the context and resources of an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service.   

Skills   

  • Delivered employment and leadership opportunities for Aboriginal Researchers in central Australia.  

 

Project leader

Bronwyn Silver

Administering institution:

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress

Completion date:

Expected April 2019