Family And Community Health

Supporting developmentally vulnerable children

Optimising the integration of best evidence screening for childhood neurodevelopmental disability into routine clinical care

Year granted: 2022 Organisation location: Darwin, NT Themes: Child and maternal health, Cultural safety and respectful systems Project summary: This project facilitated the uptake of…

Understanding community priorities for family and cultural strength

Developing Yorta Yorta Measures for Shared Prosperity, Repositioning Value and a Thriving Community with Strong Foundations

Year granted: 2022 Organisation location: Shepparton, VIC Themes: Family and community health, empowerment Project summary: This project contributed to the development of a wider picture…

Centring Aboriginal self-determination and sovereignty

Co-Designing a Birthing on Country model for First Peoples' Health and Wellbeing in Naarm

Year granted: 2022 Organisation location: Thomastown, VIC Themes: Child and maternal health, Sovereignty Project summary: This project aimed to co-design a Birthing on Country model…

Engaging with young people in yarning and sharing about protective and resilience factors

Supporting agency and connectivity to drive primary healthcare innovation for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in South East Queensland

Year granted: 2022 Organisation location: Windsor, QLD Themes: Community health and wellbeing, empowerment Project summary: This project aimed to establish the governance, infrastructure and methods…

Boorai Dreaming Project

Delivering rhythmic experiences of cultural immersion to address, stabilise, and create restorative understandings of inter-generational trauma

Year granted: 2022 Organisation location: Casuarina, NT Themes: Family and community health, Connectedness Project summary: This project will fund Elder women in Mildura and Robinvale…

Creating and sharing culturally-appropriate therapeutic practice guides

Documenting and implementing Aboriginal-specific cultural elements of practice

Project summary: VACCA provides a number of child and family welfare services to Aboriginal people in Victoria. Underpinning this work is a commitment to delivering…

Community-driven empowerment through mabu liyan

Closing the data and knowledge gap

Year granted: 2020 Organisation location: Broome, WA Themes: Community health and wellbeing, Sovereignty Project summary: This project built on the Yawuru Wellbeing Project to contribute…

Valuing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young Men

Valuing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young men Project Aim: This project aimed to identify how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young men remain strong…

Burden of influenza and other respiratory viruses among Aboriginal children in the Top End

Aboriginal infants in the Northern Territory suffer from the highest rate of influenza morbidity in the world. This disease is vaccine preventable, but universal vaccination…

Evaluating the Baby Basket program in north Queensland

A comprehensive program evaluation was undertaken to improve the evidence base around what contributes to successful outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal and…