Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Alice Springs, School of Medicine Flinders NT
Poche Alice Springs Professor Della Yarnold (Director – on extended leave) Professor Dean Carson 0.1 Ms Colleen Hayes 1.0 Aboriginal Cultural Educator Mr John Reid 0.5 PhD Candidate, 0.5 Indigenous Research Dr Kerry Taylor, 1.0 Senior Research Fellow, Acting Deputy Director Ms Maria Thompson 1.0 Aboriginal Research Officer, Ms Annette McCarthy casual Aboriginal Research Officer, attached to Faculty Grant Research, end June 2013 ?, 1.0 Administration Officer, position vacant 19/4/2013
Poche Alice Springs coverage Alice Springs Tennant Creek Katherine Nhulunbuy
Strategic objectives Preparation of culturally safe health workforces Aboriginal health literacy – incl. workforce Professional/patient communication Incorporation of Indigenous knowledges Early childhood issues (incorporating Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [FASD]) Mental health/well-being Chronic condition co-management- renal, diabetes
Poche Scholarships Poche Scholarships - to assist a mature student, with significant family responsibilities, to successfully pursue a Faculty of Health Sciences degree. NTMP – Aboriginal student Year 3, 4 Higher degree student- Maree Meredith
Poche Scholarships
Poche Teaching Year 3/4 medical Cultural Safety sessions CRH Remote Health Programs – Cultural safety, Historical Overview, Intercultural Communications Poche Adelaide Cultural Safety Workshop, Medical First Years CLIC students, RUSC students Medicare Locals – Cultural Safety for GP services ED, ICU, RFDS WDNWPT, Waltja, Amity MHACA –cultural safety perspective to Suicide Story Training Development of teaching materials for the medical curriculum Invited Presentations/ Seminars delivered by Poche staff
Poche Research Scoping education curricula Indigenous content Faculty grant Teaching Cultural Safety Suicide Referral Pathway Health literacy project – dementia grant pending Purple House Cookbook for renal patients and family ‘Changing short term populations in rural and remote South Australia and the Northern Territory’ ‘Future Change in Ancient Worlds: Indigenous adaptation to climate change in Northern Australia’ ‘Demographic and Social Change in the Northern Territory.. ‘Flexible Career Pathways for an Aboriginal Health Workforce’
Current Student Involvement Colleen Hayes Grad. Dip Remote Health Management John Reid, PhD Candidate Maree Meredith, PhD Candidate Josephein Zwart, PhD Candidate Emanjilli Marie PhD Bendigo Alice Kemble PhD Candidate USyd Anthea Brand, PhD Candidate
Teaching & learning from each other: Cultural Safety Ms Colleen Hayes, & Dr Kerry Taylor, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & Wellbeing, Alice Springs 0 Indigenous Teaching Holistic Immersion Hands-on, Visual, practical learning Country, Lore, Language Leadership Relationshp Partnership Kinship Respect & Responsibility Elders Western Academic Teaching Terminology related to context Scholarship Didactic Discourse Informed by Multiple worldviews Expertise, qualifications Theoretical abstract Research Inquiring & analytical
Publications 2012-current Dementia Report Dementia Article Indigenous Mind Cultural safety in Suicide Prevention Suicide Attempt referral pathways Towards systematic data collection
Consultations/Collaboration CRH teaching & research – MHACA Suicide Story – adding Cultural Safety Perspectives – MHACA Suicide referral pathway – Dementia grant – shared language of dementia WDNWPT – health literacy, cultural safety, audit tool, cookbook ICU Communication DVD ACEM Indigenous curriculum - resources
Other Publications Taylor & Guerin 2010 Palgrave-Macmillan 2 nd Edition 2014
Committees Flinders NT Expert Evaluation Committee CAHREC FCOATSIH ACEM Indigenous Health Curriculum Indigenous Reference Group Kidney Action Network
Two cultures collaborating in a culturally safe way