Community Outreach Program for Aboriginal Communities

Do you belong to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community that could benefit from learning more about caring for people when they are getting ready to ‘finish up’?

PEPA offers a tailored workshop program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to increase community awareness in caring for people who are unwell and not going to get better.  This program is flexible and customised to local needs within each state and territory.   The program targets Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers, community workers, liaison officers and elders, but other community members are also welcome to attend most events.

 The program is underpinned by the principle of Cultural Respect in that interventions and services should ‘not unwittingly compromise the cultural rights, practices, values and expectations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’*.    The program has been developed with steering from the PEPA for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers Reference Group, which includes representatives from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, policy and education sectors.

To find out more, please contact the PEPA Aboriginal Project Officer/ Consultant or PEPA Manager in your state or territory.  

* Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council’s (AHMAC) Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Working Party. Cultural Respect Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 2004-2009.  Department of Health, South Australia, March 2004.