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Keeping Safe during COVID-19: Learning from Aboriginal Elders

In this fact sheet we provide a summary of perspectives shared by Aboriginal Elders and community members about coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, and how future emergency responses can be more culturally safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Codesign with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

This fact sheet provides an overview of Codesign with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Codesign is a process of bringing different stakeholders together to collaboratively design products, services and policies. Codesign with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples must centre Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing and recognise historical and ongoing contexts of colonisation and dispossession.

Aboriginal Participatory Action Research

This fact sheet provides an overview of Aboriginal Participatory Action Research (APAR), a transformative, strengths-based research method grounded in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems, cultural practices, and worldviews. APAR extends beyond traditional research by focusing on action and collaboration. It helps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities identify challenges, explore solutions, and take steps to improve their wellbeing and self-determination.

The Lancet Commission on Self-harm

This fact sheet provides a summary of the findings of The Lancet Commission on Self-harm.

Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Research

This fact sheet provides information about culturally responsive and safe ways of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in research. 

First Nations Youth and the Justice System

This fact sheet is an executive summary of the article ‘First Nations peoples and the law’ by Milroy & colleagues (2021).

The Dance of Life

In this fact sheet we present a series of paintings which make up a framework called the Dance of Life. This framework was developed by Professor Helen Milroy. 

The National Empowerment Project (NEP): Cultural, Social and Emotional Wellbeing (CSEWB) Program

This fact sheet describes a key community-led outcome of the National Empowerment Project; the Cultural, Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program.

Fact Sheet A - Social and Emotional Wellbeing

In this fact sheet some of the principles, domains, and determinants related to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives of Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) are presented within a holistic framework. 

Fact Sheet - Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and their families

Fact Sheet A - Social and Emotional Wellbeing

This fact sheet has been developed in partnership with child and adolescent psychiatrist Prof Helen Milroy to help increase awareness and understanding of intergenerational trauma. It has been designed to be used in conjunction with the Healing Foundation’s Intergenerational Trauma animation.

Empowering the Workforce

This fact sheet provides information about key projects in TIMHWB – Empowering the Workforce.

Co-designing an ethical decision making framework to improve Aboriginal mental health and wellbeing

An Aboriginal-led project to co-design an ethical decision making frame-work—directed and held by the wisdom of Elders—to ensure culturally secure responses to improve mental health and wellbeing.  Aboriginal young people will also be engaged in the co-design process with Elders, as will senior WA Government staff.

Positive partnerships: Working alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing

This fact sheet is designed to support non Indigenous practitioners who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, parents and families. While it is suitable for all practitioners, it may be especially helpful in building the cultural competency of psychologists and other mental health professionals.

Exploring the concept of Imperfect Allyship

This fact sheet provides information about the concept of Imperfect Allyship and the implications of imperfect allies in trauma informed care work.

A Culturally Safe Research Process in Mental Health

This fact sheet is an executive summary of the article, Co-designing research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers of mental health services, mental health workers, Elders and Cultural Healers (Milroy et al., 2022).