Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & WellbeingAlice 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 SpringsTennant CreekKatherineNhulunbuy

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

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Indigenous Teaching

HolisticImmersion

Hands-on,Visual,

practicallearning

Country, Lore,

Language

LeadershipRelationshpPartnership

KinshipRespect &

Responsibility

Elders

Western Academic Teaching

Terminology related to context

ScholarshipDidactic

Discourse

Informed by Multiple

worldviews

Expertise, qualifications

Theoreticalabstract

ResearchInquiring

& 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 2010Palgrave-Macmillan

2nd 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