The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and its key partners called on the incoming Government to introduce a comprehensive Aboriginal
Cultural Safety Strategy, Croakey reported.
Not exact matches
Other aims include a focus on trauma - informed care, increasing the
cultural safety of services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and staff, and increasing Indigenous employment at all levels of health organisations, including through the use of employment
strategies and targets.
For example, I had wondered why Australian policy contributing to
cultural safety and security (table 1, below) had no underpinning literature review and limited evidence base for the long list of domains,
strategies, and actions contained within them.
Other
strategies that have also been cited as important when considering the needs and preferences of Aboriginal people in a program include developing and using culturally specific tools [22], integrating Aboriginal ways of learning or knowing [22,23,40,49,50] and consideration of the
cultural safety of participants [18].
In this Chapter I will be taking our
strategies to an even more practical level, looking at how we can create environments of
cultural safety and security to address lateral violence.
Family
Safety: Empowering Indigenous people to develop and support local initiatives advancing the social,
cultural, and economic well - being of Indigenous families in combating violence and enhancing family cohesion via
strategies like Indigenous controlled family support centres and increased recruiting, training, career development and retention of Indigenous employees in Child Protection Units in the Northern Territory.
Development and / or review of
strategies, plans, policies, presentations and resources to ensure inclusiveness and considerations for Indigenous
cultural safety