Aboriginal community engagement
Aboriginal people driving healthcare improvements
A presentation for NAIDOC week 2023
- Background
- How Janet as a nurse became involved in collaborative Aboriginal healthcare
- How Amy’s life experiences have informed her research in wanting to change the way Aboriginal people are observed, assessed and portrayed
- Meaningful Aboriginal community engagement (using AKtion as a case)
- Look and listen (dadirri)
- Creating a culturally safe space to meet
- A deep and quiet form of listening to increase awareness and understanding.
- This is our journey, walk with us
- Think and discuss (yarning)
- A culturally safe way of talking for First Nations people
- Social Yarning; Collaborative Yarning; Research Topic Yarning; and Therapeutic Yarning
- Take action together (ganma)
- The respectful way of sharing cultural knowledge between people
- The term Ganma comes from the process, when the two meet and create a foam that represents a new kind of knowledge.
- Health journey mapping
- Helps identify, plan, support and record what cultural safety looks and feels like in practice
- Tools and resources
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About the Presenters
Amy Graham is a Kaurna, Narungga woman. Her world is centred on her family, community and culture. Her experiences as a patient and as an Aboriginal Health Practitioner exposed her to the inequity within Australia's systems for First Nations people. Amy’s research with the University of Adelaide aims to inform meaningful change and see a real-life, real-time impact on the way Aboriginal people are observed, assessed and portrayed
Associate Professor Janet Kelly is a nurse researcher and course coordinator focused on improving health care and outcomes for and with Aboriginal people. She has co-designed flexible and adaptable health journey mapping tools that identify barriers and enablers, gaps and strategies in care. These tools are increasing being used for quality improvement, reflective practice, education and training in renal care, cardiac care, nursing, midwifery and medicine. In 2019 Janet led the AKction – Aboriginal Kidney Care Together – Improving Outcomes Now Project, funded through Health Translation SA, bringing together Aboriginal kidney patients and their families, health professionals, academics, researchers and other key stakeholders to identify strengths and gaps and improve care. Janet now co-leads AKction2, a 5 year NHMRC Ideas grant with Dr Kim O'Donnell. This project positions Aboriginal people with lived experience of kidney disease as patient experts and chief investigators, and hasfour nested sub studies: Indigenous governance, Kidney journey mapping, Peer support and navigation, and Cultural safety.
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