This Month
Watch 2 videos of Co-Director of Canada’s UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health Associate Professor Nadine Caron MD the #NACCHOAgm2018 31 Oct – Nov 2 keynote speaker
NACCHO AGM 2018 Brisbane Oct 31—Nov 2 Registrations now open : Download the Program
Future events /conferences
Now open: Aged Care Regional, Rural and Remote Infrastructure Grant opportunity.$500,000 closes 24 October 2018
The fourth annual Indigenous Business Month this year will celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in business, to coincide with the 2018 NAIDOC theme Because of Her, We Can.
Wiyi Yani U Thangani Women’s Voices project.
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness Week (ATSIHAW) 28th November to 5th December : Expression of Interest open but close 26 October
2018 International Indigenous Allied Health Forum at the Mercure Hotel, Sydney, Australia on the 30 November 2018
AIDA Conference 2018 Vision into Action
Announcing Co-Director of Canada’s UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health Associate Professor Nadine Caron MD as #NACCHOAgm2018 30 Oct – Nov 2 keynote speaker
Dr Caron will speak at the NACCHO Annual Conference about her experiences at UBC’s Centre for Excellence
Dr. Nadine Caron is breaking new ground in both surgical rooms and research labs.
As the first indigenous woman to earn an M.D. from UBC, she is now leading the way for Canada’s first northern biobank, a critical repository of biological samples that could lead to major medical breakthroughs.
The Anishnaabe word for doctor is Mshkikiininiikwe. Dr. Caron is that, and so much more.
Nadine currently resides in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. She provides surgical oncology care for those that call rural and remote Canada home.
Nadine is also an associate professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Surgery where she teaches in the Northern medical program. During her surgical residency, Nadine completed a Master’s in public Health from Harvard University and was awarded UBC’s top student award.
Nadine was also appointed as an Associate Faculty member of the Bloomberg school of public health, Johns Hopkins University where she teaches for the Centre for American Indian Health.
Nadine is Anishnawbe from Sagamok First Nation. Her work involves a variety of audiences and knowledge users including governments, provincial health authorities, national medical organisations, health research funding bodies, and several universities to achieve identified and overlapping objectives.
In 2014 Dr Caron was appointed Co-Director of the UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health located at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health.
Dr Caron will speak about her experiences at UBC’s Centre for Excellence
Meet Canada’s 1st female Indigenous surgeon
As Canada’s first female First Nations general surgeon, Dr. Nadine Caron says she knows, first-hand, that there’s a lot of work to be done to tackle institutional racism and encourage Indigenous youth to seek careers in health care.
Caron practices in northern British Columbia and also works as a teacher at the University of Northern British Columbia’s medical school in Prince George, B.C. Throughout her career, she says she has witnessed racism and experienced it firsthand at work.
“I hear it. I hear it from patients,” Caron told CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday. “I hear about experiences they’ve had in the past – that they’ve had in other places – and then all you can do is change the here and now and make sure it’s different in the future.”
Caron is tackling systemic discrimination in the medical profession through education. As part of her work at the University of Northern British Columbia, Caron is helping to create a new curriculum to train future health care professionals on how to prevent racism against Indigenous people in the profession.
“They’re going to enter the workforce with, not only the tools to be able to have the ability to have that cultural safety and humility, but they’re also going to leave with the responsibility that they don’t have an option this time around,” she explained.
Caron is also working on combating the problem of access to healthcare that is widespread in many northern First Nations and rural communities. Long wait times, high rates of staff turnover, inadequate human resources and harsh climates make it difficult to provide adequate services.
Even though they can’t change the weather, Caron said improved technologies, such as telehealth, has made health care more accessible for those in isolated regions. She also said they’re training more physicians to increase staff in those areas and ensuring those medical professionals are equipped with “cultural competency” and “humility” to work effectively in those communities.
Eventually, Caron said she hopes there will be more Indigenous medical professionals, so that it’s no longer considered a “big deal” or anything out of the ordinary.
“When you walk in and you have a Metis surgeon, an Inuit doctor, a First Nations dentist, when you no longer blink an eye, we’ve made it,” she said.
For any First Nations youth considering a career in health care, Caron advised them to focus on something that they will be passionate about.
“It’s hard,” Caron said. “It’s a challenging career but if you love something, it’s always harder to turn it down than to do it.”
NACCHO AGM 2018 Brisbane Oct 31 —Nov 2 Registrations still open
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Download 6 page Program as at 16 October
NACCHO National Conference Program 2018 (1)
The NACCHO Members’ Conference and AGM provides a forum for the Aboriginal community controlled health services workforce, bureaucrats, educators, suppliers and consumers to:
- Present on innovative local economic development solutions to issues that can be applied to address similar issues nationally and across disciplines
- Have input and influence from the ‘grassroots’ into national and state health policy and service delivery
- Demonstrate leadership in workforce and service delivery innovation
- Promote continuing education and professional development activities essential to the Aboriginal community controlled health services in urban, rural and remote Australia
- Promote Aboriginal health research by professionals who practice in these areas and the presentation of research findings
- Develop supportive networks
- Promote good health and well-being through the delivery of health services to and by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people throughout Australia.
Conference Website Link
Now open: Aged Care Regional, Rural and Remote Infrastructure Grant opportunity.$500,000 closes 24 October 2018
This grant opportunity is designed to assist existing approved residential and home care providers in regional, rural and remote areas to invest in infrastructure. Commonwealth Home Support Programme services will also be considered, where there is exceptional need. Funding will be prioritised to aged care services most in need and where geographical constraints and significantly higher costs impede services’ ability to invest in infrastructure works.
Up to $500,000 (GST exclusive) will be available per service via a competitive application process.
Eligibility:
To be eligible you must be:
- an approved residential or home care provider (as defined under the Aged Care Act 1997) or an approved Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) provider in exceptional circumstances (refer Frequently asked Questions) ; and
- currently operating an aged care service located in Modified Monash Model Classification 3-7 or if a CHSP provider, the service is located in MMM 6-7. (MMM Locator).
The fourth annual Indigenous Business Month this year will celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in business, to coincide with the 2018 NAIDOC theme Because of Her, We Can.
Throughout October, twenty national Indigenous Business Month events will take place showcasing the talents of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women entrepreneurs from a variety of business sectors. These events aim to ignite conversations about Indigenous business development and innovation, focusing on women’s roles and leadership.
Indigenous Business Month is an initiative driven by the alumni of Melbourne Business School’s MURRA Indigenous Business Master Class, who see business as a way of providing positive role models for young Indigenous Australians and improving quality of life in Indigenous communities.
Since the launch of Indigenous Business Month in 2015, [1] the Indigenous business sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in Australia delivering over $1 billion in goods and services for the Australian economy.
Jason Eades, Director, Consulting at Social Ventures Australia and Indigenous Business Month 2018 host said:
“It is a privilege to be involved in Indigenous Business Month, to be able to take the time to celebrate and acknowledge the great achievements of our Indigenous entrepreneurs and their respective businesses. Indigenous entrepreneurs are showing the rest of the world that we can do business and do it well, whilst maintaining our strong cultural values.”
The latest ABS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey 2014-15 shows that only 51.5 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women participate in the workforce compared to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men at 65 percent.
The Australian Government has invested in a range of initiatives to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women entrepreneurs in the work-placeincluding: [2) Continued funding for girls’ academies in high schools, so that young women can realise their leadership potential, greater access to finance and business support suited to the needs of Indigenous businesses with a focus on Indigenous entrepreneurs and start-ups, and expanding the ParentsNextprogram and Fund pre-employment projects via the new Launch into Work program providing flexibility to meet the specific needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
Michelle Evans, MURRA Program Director AND Associate Professor of Leadership at the University of Melbourne said:
“The Indigenous Business Month’s aim is to inspire, showcase and engage the Indigenous business community. This year it is more significant than ever to support the female Indigenous business community and provide a platform for them to network and encourage young Indigenous women to consider developing a business as a career option.”
Indigenous Business Month runs from October 1 to October 31. Check out the website for an event near you (spaces are limited).
The initiative is supported by 33 Creative, Asia Pacific Social Impact Centre at the University of Melbourne, Iscariot Media, and PwC.
For more information on Indigenous Business Month visit
· The Websitewww.indigenousbusinessmonth.com.au
Wiyi Yani U Thangani Women’s Voices project.
June Oscar AO and her team are excited to hear from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls across the country as a part of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Women’s Voices project.
Whilst we will not be able to get to every community, we hope to hear from as many women and girls as possible through this process. If we are not coming to your community we encourage you to please visit the Have your Say! page of the website to find out more about the other ways to have your voice included through our survey and submission process.
We will be hosting public sessions as advertised below but also a number of private sessions to enable women and girls from particularly vulnerable settings like justice and care to participate.
Details about current, upcoming and past gatherings appears below, however it is subject to change. We will update this page regularly with further details about upcoming gatherings closer to the date of the events.
Please get in touch with us via email wiyiyaniuthangani@humanrights.gov.au or phone on (02) 9284 9600 if you would like more information.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls are invited to register for one of the following gatherings
Upcoming gatherings
If your community is listed below and you would like to be involved in planning for our visit or would like more information, please write to us at wiyiyaniuthangani@humanrights.gov.au or phone (02) 9284 9600.
| Location | Dates |
|---|---|
| Port Headland | October 2018 |
| Newman | October 2018 |
| Dubbo | TBC |
| Brewarrina | TBC |
| Rockhampton | TBC |
| Longreach | TBC |
| Kempsey | TBC |
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander HIV Awareness Week (ATSIHAW) 28th November to 5th December : Expression of Interest open but close 26 October
In 2017 we supported more than 60 ACCHS to run community events during ATSIHAW.
We are now seeking final EOIs to host 2018 ATSIHAW Events
EOI’s will remain open until 26th October 2018
ATSIHAW coincides each year with World AIDS Day- our aim is to promote conversation and action around HIV in our communities. Our long lasting theme of ATSIHAW is U AND ME CAN STOP HIV”.
If you would like to host an ATSIHAW event in 2018, please complete the EOI form here Expression of Interest 2018 and then send back to us to at atsihaw@sahmri.com
Once registered we will send merchandise to your service to help with your event.
For more information about ATSIHAW please visit http://www.atsihiv.org.au/hiv-awareness-week/merchandise/
ATSIHAW on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ATSIHAW/
ATSIHAW on Twitter https://twitter.com/atsihaw
NACCHO AGM 2018 Brisbane Oct 30—Nov
2018 International Indigenous Allied Health Forum at the Mercure Hotel, Sydney, Australia on the 30 November 2018.
This Forum will bring together Indigenous and First Nation presenters and panellists from across the world to discuss shared experiences and practices in building, supporting and retaining an Indigenous allied health workforce.
This full-day event will provide a platform to share information and build an integrated approach to improving culturally safe and responsive health care and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous peoples and communities.
Delegates will include Indigenous and First Nation allied health professionals and students from Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand. There will also be delegates from a range of sectors including, health, wellbeing, education, disability, academia and community.
AIDA Conference 2018 Vision into Action
Building on the foundations of our membership, history and diversity, AIDA is shaping a future where we continue to innovate, lead and stay strong in culture. It’s an exciting time of change and opportunity in Indigenous health.
The AIDA conference supports our members and the health sector by creating an inspiring networking space that engages sector experts, key decision makers, Indigenous medical students and doctors to join in an Indigenous health focused academic and scientific program.
AIDA recognises and respects that the pathway to achieving equitable and culturally-safe healthcare for Indigenous Australians is dynamic and complex. Through unity, leadership and collaboration, we create a future where our vision translates into measureable and significantly improved health outcomes for our communities. Now is the time to put that vision into action.
2nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference 20-21 November Perth
” The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention and World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference Committee invite and welcome you to Perth for the second National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference, and the second World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference.
Our Indigenous communities, both nationally and internationally, share common histories and are confronted with similar issues stemming from colonisation. Strengthening our communities so that we can address high rates of suicide is one of these shared issues. The Conferences will provide more opportunities to network and collaborate between Indigenous people and communities, policy makers, and researchers. The Conferences are unique opportunities to share what we have learned and to collaborate on solutions that work in suicide prevention.
This also enables us to highlight our shared priorities with political leaders in our respective countries and communities.
