Grand Pacific Health- Aboriginal Health Team Moruya

Moruya Community Health

Katungul Aboriginal Corporation Regional Health and Community Services - Bega

Winnunga Nimmityjah AHS run a number of social health programs and services, employing both female and male counselling and support staff.

The Healthy Lifestyle Program provides lifestyle advice and support, including exercise groups and healthy eating classes.

Services include: A holistic Aboriginal community controlled health service providing excellence in individual, family and community care including medical, social and emotional care. Our services include GP, Psychology, Midwifery, Hearing and Dietetic services, please see within for more information.

Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service

The Nguru Program provides culturally appropriate counselling for members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, who have experienced sexual assault, and their families. 

Nguru helps service users assess their circumstances and relationships, and to make choices, decisions and plans for the future. The Nguru programs approach is holistic and family centred.

Assistance is provided through discussions with professional counsellors in individual and group sessions (where appropriate). The program also provides education and training to community members, and other non-government members, government agencies, service providers and schools about the causes, effects and responses to sexual violence against women and children in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

Services include: At CRCC we provide confidential counselling and support for women and children who have experienced any form of sexual assault recently or in the past. We provide a crisis support telephone line, Indigenous community support, counselling to victims and their families, and community education programs.

Canberra Rape Crisis Centre (CRCC)

We provide Care Coordination and Supplementary Services (CCSS) to local residents who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, live with a chronic health condition, and are above the age of 15. Access to a care coordinator and assistance with finances to access urgent medical specialist and allied health services, which are in accordance with a GP care plan.

Services include: Care coordination and assistance to access allied health providers, medical specialists and specialised medical equipment to people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples. Patients must have one or more of the following conditions: diabetes, cardiovascular disease (e.g. heart attack/stroke), chronic respiratory disease (e.g. asthma/bronchitis/emphysema), chronic kidney disease or cancer and have a current care plan. For more information call a care coordinator on 6287 8099.

Capital Health Network - Closing the Gap Program

Calvary Hospital offers an Indigenous Liaison Officer.  This is a pilot project to support Indigenous patients who arrive at Calvary either as an inpatient or outpatient.

Services include: Calvary Public Hospital is funded by ACT Health and managed by Little Company of Mary Health Care. The hospital is the second major hospital in Canberra providing acute care services to the local community and surrounds. As well as providing an extensive range of inpatient services Calvary Public Hospital also provides ambulatory care and outreach facilities and services.

Calvary Health Care ACT - Calvary Public Hospital

The Peer Education Support Group Program provides peer education groups run by and for past or current illicit/injecting drug users and pharmacotherapy consumers. 

Topics for harm reduction education workshops include: blood borne viruses; sexual health; overdose prevention; safer injecting; drug treatments; mental health and co-morbidity. Consultations and focus groups for consumers to input into local and national policy development activities are facilitated, and the program actively promotes health and human rights for drug users.

Services include: CAHMA provides a peer based user group run by and for past and present illicit/injecting drug users, their families and friends. CAHMA provides advocacy, assistance and education around issues pertinent to the lives of illicit/injecting drug users.

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