A culturally safe service that assists Aboriginal people in their healing journey from the impact of family violence.
This knowledge can help professionals to create
culturally safe service environments and practices, develop relationships and collaborative partnerships with local Aboriginal communities, and support the factors essential to the health of Aboriginal children and families.
Ministerial leadership to ensure that all health practitioners achieve and maintain competency to deliver and manage
culturally safe services.
Knowing and acknowledging this history is particularly important for health systems and professionals, given that current Australian health dialogue supports the development of
culturally safe services and practices, and this requires an understanding of one's own profession's historical complicity in such events.
Of course we need to make sure short term staff are appropriately prepared to provide
culturally safe services, but in the face of such high turnover, we need to develop robust health service models that are adequately funded, competently managed and clinical protocol driven.
This is a step CATSINaM believes is necessary if we the profession is to play an active role in realising the words in current government policy on the development of
culturally safe services and practices.
We are working on specific cultural safety activities and resources to increase awareness, understanding and capacity within Northern Health to provide
culturally safe services.
Not exact matches
Not only that we serve the best and
safest online dating
service for our members, but we are also a
culturally diverse dating site.
There is a growing sentiment that whenever
safe and possible, American Indian youth should be diverted to effective,
culturally relevant community - based programs and
services.
This presence in the curricula has not emerged in isolation, with several national and state health policies that recommend creating
culturally safe health
services for Aboriginal people as one way of addressing health disparities.
«I provide
safe, accepting, and mindful environment as well as
culturally sensitive
services for children, adults, and families who are experiencing difficulties with emotional stress such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, behavioral issues such as ADHD, defiant, and oppositional behaviors, culture - related stress such as immigration and issues regarding identity including gender variant clients.
The current version of the standards includes strategies for improvement such as creating a
culturally safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who use the organisation's
services.
When health
services are
culturally safe, they are more likely to be accessed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are also more likely to experience better outcomes from these
services.
In Australia there is a lack of consensual definition at the policy level of what constitutes
culturally safe health
services for Aboriginal people.
A
culturally safe model of care requires that the perspectives and worldviews of the people represented (i.e. patients; no mention of race, skin colour or ethnicity) must be integrated into all facets of
service provision, from program development to
service delivery.
The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual levels, and to therefore identify
culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and
safe systems of care; the significance of cultural diversity between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health
services to remote communities in often harsh environments.
Is your
service culturally safe and engaging for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
It is well known that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are more likely to access, and will experience better outcomes from
services that are
culturally safe places.
If
services are not
culturally safe, if they are not providing health care that meets the needs of OUR people, then what value are we getting for our investment?
In making
services more
culturally safe and therefore more accessible, these initiatives contributed to the «ability of people to seek care».
Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) asserts that a strong and visible commitment by governments to building a
culturally safe and responsive health system that provides equitable access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to allied health
services is required in order to really make a difference.
It's also about offering
safe and
culturally appropriate maternity
services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies.
Although Australia's National Oral Health Plan and several Closing - the - Gap initiatives identified Indigenous peoples as a priority, the prevalence of oral health conditions continue to have an impact, with Indigenous peoples reporting that health
services are not
culturally safe.
«From a family and relationship support perspective, this includes the need to provide
services in
culturally safe locations, where outreach and more informal models of counselling like «yarning up» can lead to stronger outcomes.
Jo Fox, Liaison Officer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Services, said the program gave Aboriginal men in Melbourne's Eastern Metro Region (EMR) the opportunity to address their personal relationship issues in a
culturally safe environment.
The processes underpinning the design, delivery, evaluation of, and outcomes achieved from the Maambart Maam For Maali Moort Wellbeing pilot program confirm that Aboriginal families, and Aboriginal fathers in particular, can greatly benefit from tailored, targeted and
culturally safe support programs and
services.
supporting prison health
services to be able to deliver a
culturally safe and competent
service including by employing greater numbers of Aboriginal Health Workers and Indigenous health professionals, and working in partnership with ACCHOs or other
services.
All families enjoy access to quality,
culturally safe, universal and targeted
services necessary for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to thrive;
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers understand the health issues of Indigenous people and what is needed to provide
culturally safe and accessible
services.
Waminda is a
culturally safe and holistic
service, providing women and their Aboriginal families an opportunity to belong and receive quality health and wellbeing support.
The Victorian Aboriginal Palliative Care Program aims to create a sustainable and
culturally safe palliative care
service system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
DAIWS provides
safe and
culturally appropriate
services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who are homeless or escaping family violence.
Provides clinical and emotional health and wellbeing
services for women in welcoming,
safe and
culturally respectful health centres across metropolitan Adelaide.
This reality proves the absolute need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations to be supported in providing
culturally safe health, education and justice essential
services.
All
service providers must work with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal family and kin to support family preservation in the first instance, using
culturally safe evidence - based tools like Family Group Conferencing.
Brach & Fraser [10], also suggest that
culturally safe and competent
services will translate into better health via the impact they have on improved communication, increased trust in the health system, greater knowledge about health and
services in the local community and expanded cultural understanding within the health system.
Djirra has a great team of staff who are committed to providing
culturally safe and accessible
services to Aboriginal people seeking our support.
Participants» responses also reflected features of a
culturally safe program in that there was engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, information was provided in an appropriate and digestible way, there was integration with the health
service and responsibilities were shared across clients and staff and between clients as well [8].
Dennis will discuss mechanisms for organizational change in
service of enhancing
culturally -
safe care.
Their development and application, however, could lead to improved quality of care and overall health status for First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples by: providing the skills, knowledge and attitudes that public health practitioners could draw upon to provide
culturally competent and
safe health
services to Aboriginal individuals and communities; improving academic curriculum, training programs, professional certification, health
services planning, health policy, and health program evaluation standards; and providing standardized assessment criteria to help governments and organizations share best practices more efficiently and promote
culturally safe health
services.
Assisting Indigenous people and their families to access high quality,
culturally safe health care
services
The establishment of these requirements and ensuring compliance with them does not address whether a competitive process is the best approach for funding
culturally safe and appropriate
services and programs for our peoples.