“Yeddung Guri Yeddung Yerra” Project  Established in 2008  Indigenous pre- & primary school children in SNSWLHD  Combined screening

Project Aims  Improve the OH Indigenous children  integrated screening  Training Indigenous health professionals  Establishing referral pathways  Promotional resources

Our Contribution  Literature review  Creating promotional resources  Clinician steps for OH screening  Training an Indigenous health care worker  OH promotion  Non clinical setting

Understanding Queanbeyan’s Indigenous Community  Opportunistic & flexible  Political & social challenges  Need & value of an Indigenous health worker  Communication  Cultural understanding  Premature aging  Other discrepancies

Numgbin & Ngungahlla