Philip Obah, Wadja Traditional Knowledge Centre Corporation Victor Jose, Wadja Traditional Knowledge Centre Corporation Eliesa Burenivalu Saunikalou Tuiloma, IPR/TK/TCE/Medical Laws and Policies Consultant, Bless (Fiji) Consultants; former Legal Consultant to Pacific Island Forum/WIPO/EU TK and TCE Policies and Legislations Project – Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati Sally Hariata McKean, Lecturer in Maori Studies, Lincoln University
Discounted rates for education & training providers, Indigenous community groups, Indigenous corporations & NGOs, land councils & local government: $1495 plus gst (Standard pricing is $2695 plus GST)
You are invited to participate and contribute to a discussion on working together to close the gap for Aboriginal health.
Venue: The Theatrette, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street Sydney
Date: Tuesday 30 October 2012
Time: 9.30am: Welcome reception.
The Forum will start promptly at 10am and will conclude at 12 noon. Informal networking until 12.30pm
Panel:
Kristy Masella – Group Manager Social Justice, Aboriginal Affairs
Associate Professor Melissa Haswel – Muru Marri, Indigenous Health Unit, UNSW
Sally Crawshaw – National Senior Project Officer, Indigenous Service and Program Development, Australian Red Cross
David Leah – Gamarada Graduate (a consumer’s perspective)
Facilitator:Ken Zulumovski, Co-founder and Chair, Gamarada Indigenous Healing and Life Training Ltd
RSVP: 26 October 2012. Ken Zulumovski – email: ken.z@gamarada.org.au or phone: 0433 346 645
Purpose
To facilitate a conversation among service providers on shared experiences, successes and challenges when engaging Aboriginal people, families and communities in health and social and emotional well being services.
To showcase a range of best practice models of engagement for service delivery that are relevant to our setting.
To create a strategy or plan to enhance our service linkages
Outcomes
This Forum seeks to initiate a process with the following goals:
service providers gaining insight and idea through sharing experiences with each other.
Increased joined up partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous service providers.
Enhanced relationships between service providers and organisational partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous services.
Improved customer service and acces sto service provision through better understanding and capacity to support clients broader needs.
Increased networking and pathways for Indigenous workers with non- Indigenous services.
Identfication and filling of gaps in service delivery
Better informed training and workforce development activities
Gamarada will facilitate a follow up forum in six months to enable service providers to share progress, identify continued challenges and discuss new initiatives for further enhancement.
Who should attend?
Representatives from government and non-government mainstream community services,
regional level managers and directors involved in planning and partnerships,
representatives and members of local Indigenous communities in the Sydney area; and
university students from various faculties e.g public health, medicine, law, social work, psychology, and criminology.
Participants will include Aboriginal community leaders from the Sydney Metropolitan area and government and non-government services providers.
About the Organiser
Gamarada Indigenous Healing & Life Training
Indigenous Australians experience markedly higher rates of mental illness, disadvantage and life stressors than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This entrenched situation has largely defied attempts by policy makers and legislators to come up with positive solutions. The Australian Human Rights Commission recommended in its ‘Bringing Them Home Report’ that part of the solution to these problems was to create innovative healing programs. The Gamarada Healing, Life Skills and Leadership Programs achieve this goal by building capacity in individuals and assisting them to reach out and engage employment, legal, health and community services thus increasing individual functioning and reducing the discrepancies between the populations.
Contact
Ken Zulumovski
Kira-dhan, Kabbi Kabbi Nation
Chair, Gamarada Indigenous Healing and Life Training Ltd. Redfern, NSW, Australia, 2016
Manager, Gamarada-Parental and Community Engagement Program
