Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia
The Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (ACHWA) is the peak body for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) in Western Australia. We exist to support and act on behalf of our 23 Member ACCHS throughout WA, actively responding to the individual and collective needs of our Members.
Governed by an Aboriginal Board of Directors who represent all regions in Western Australia, AHCWA aims to promote and strengthen the ACCHS model of care. A model that is built around the delivery of comprehensive, holistic, and culturally secure primary health care services. View more information on the website.
MAPPA
Mappa is a free-to-use online mapping platform developed by the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA) and its 23 Members Services, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS).
Mappa provides provides comprehensive, culturally appropriate and reliable information for WA health services, patients and their communities. Mappa shows health services in metro, regional and remote areas including their:
• Facilities
• Visiting specialists and allied health professionals
• Mobile bus clinics (location, dates, how to book), and more!
Mappa is custom made for the WA health industry and is designed to help Aboriginal people, health professionals, and the public. The service information displayed on the Mappa website is all publically available information – there are no private details or patient information. Mappa aims to remove the systemic barriers to enable Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to receive adequate healthcare closer to home, with family and on country where possible.
Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status
Published by Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, the Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status aims to provide a comprehensive outline of the most recent indicators of the health and current health status of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The initial sections of the Overview provide information about the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, social determinants, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population and measures of population health status including births, mortality and hospitalisation.
Aboriginal Interpreting WA
AIWA is committed to bringing two – way understanding to interactions between WA Aboriginal language speakers and those responsible for delivering services across all fields of government and community services.
This is achieved through advocacy, development of policy and procedures, interpreting, translating and training including service user awareness and interpreter’s skills and knowledge.
AIWA has offices in Perth and Broome, partnering support organisations across the state, and over 100 registered, trained and supported interpreters based in towns and communities across WA. View more information on the website.
Clinical Yarning Education Project
The Clinical Yarning Education Project is an initiative of the Western Australian Centre for Rural Health at The University of Western Australia. It offers an online learning platform designed to develop the cross-cultural communication skills of health professionals and health sciences students for the delivery of better outcomes in remote and regional Aboriginal communities. View more information on the website.
Pilbara Aboriginal Heart Health Program
The Pilbara Aboriginal Heart Health Program focuses on improving heart health outcomes in three communities in the Pilbara region of northern Western Australia: Karratha, Onslow and Roebourne. The local Aboriginal community helped guide the development of the program to ensure the work is culturally appropriate and meets local needs. The program delivers heart health activities across:
- Nutrition
- Physical activity and exercise
- Heart health education
- Access to health services
Wangka Maya: Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
The Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Languages Centre was developed to preserve the Pilbara Aboriginal languages. The centre commenced as a project in July 2011. The initial focus was to work on two of the Goldfield’s languages, Ngalia and Tjupan. However, this was expanded to include the Kuwarra language, the Kaalamaya language of the Kubrun people in Kalgoorlie, Ngaju, Cundeelee Wangka and Ngalia. Visit the full site here.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
For over 20 years, the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet has provided support to those working in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector by making research and other knowledge readily accessible. In this way, we contribute to closing the gap in health between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians. The HealthInfoNet is headed up by Director Professor Neil Drew and includes a team of researchers, librarians, IT specialists, business management, organisational and marketing and administrative experts.
We are a Level II Research Centre within Edith Cowan University (ECU), Western Australia’s oldest tertiary education institution and newest university. Awarded university status in 1991, ECU is a large multi-campus institution serving communities in WA and a significant cohort of international students. The HealthInfoNet is housed within Kurongkurl Katitjin, the ECU Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research.
