Making Two Worlds Work - Women's Health Goulburn North East

Making Two Worlds Work
Building the capacity of the health and community sector to work effectively and respectfully with our Aboriginal community

Items in the resource kit are available to download from this website.
The kit is available for purchase from WHGNE for $50.00.
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Making Two Worlds Work is a partnership project between Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation and Women's Health Goulburn North East. Supported by Upper Hume Primary Care Partnership & Wodonga Regional Health Service.

A practical resource kit has been developed to support this project. Over 120 individuals, workers and agencies - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal - have contributed to the art work and resource development.

What's in the
'Making Two Worlds Work'
kit?

Suite of six colour posters
Six posters have been developed from original paintings depicting aspects of Aboriginal health and wellbeing. The Aboriginal community chose the themes, created the paintings and developed the descriptions to accompany the posters. The themes are: spiritual and mental health, kinship and family, culture and identity, physical health, practical support and understanding, and partnerships with health and community agencies.View images...

adiut tool Health and Community Services Audit
This is a beautifully designed audit tool for agency planning and review. Over many months our working group discussed how to make it easier to work respectfully with Aboriginal clients and communities. From ‘creating a welcoming environment’ to ‘developing cultural competence’, this tool supports agencies to audit their practices and make small changes that can make a big difference to providing better care. PDF... 5888K

Checklist “Working with Aboriginal clients and Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation’.
This small poster is designed to be placed prominently in workplaces as a simple reminder of the day-to day practices that are respectful of Aboriginal clients and community. It was developed during cultural training programs.PDF...

aboriginal lens cover Using a health promotion framework with an ‘Aboriginal lens’
This is a comprehensive planning and evaluation tool for specific health promotion initiatives with Aboriginal communities and as a prompt for all health promotion initiatives to ensure that we are incorporating the needs of our local Aboriginal people. We developed this because we couldn’t find a step by step health promotion manual with an Aboriginal lens to support local health promotion practice so we did it ourselves! We added examples of good practices in our local area to compliment the theory. PDF...

CD cover CD
The CD contains over 100 graphic images based on the six paintings for agencies to use when designing written or visual information for Aboriginal clients and community. You can choose borders, banners, water washes and symbols and copy them without copyright for your own publications. Download images...

DVD picture DVD
View the DVD to hear an explanation of ‘Indigenous welcome’ and ‘acknowledging country’ filmed at Mungabareena Reserve on the Murray River. View an explanation of the importance of art in Aboriginal communities. We wanted to ensure that our resource kit was designed using a range of formats and communication styles. View...

‘Welcome’ sticker
This is a simply way for services to welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to their agency. One sticker is included in each kit, and the template design is on the CD so it can be reprinted in any format for permanent signage. JPG...

Information Guide
This Information Guide brings together information from a variety of sources into one guide to make it easier for health workers to find answers to questions they may have about Aboriginal health, history and protocols. Also included are contact details for local Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organisations and services that offer support and services to Aboriginal people and communities. PDF...

About Making Two Worlds Work

Aboriginal People: a north east Victorian perspective
This section provides information on the Aboriginal peoples of north east Victoria.

Communicating Effectively
This section provides information that will assist in informed and respectful communication with Aboriginal peoples.

Historical information and key dates
This section provides information about important Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander historical and current events.

Aboriginal health promotion
This section provides information about Aboriginal health promotion.

Protocols and procedures
This section provides information about protocols and procedures related to Aboriginal services, organisations and communities.
FAQs

Producing appropriate information
This section provides information about how to ensure materials used are respectful and appropriately acknowledged.

References

Contact details for local organisations

Description of the six canvases painted

The information contained in the Making Two Worlds Work project resources is copyright, however we welcome and encourage the reproduction or copying of any part of the resource and ask that you acknowledge the Making Two Worlds Work project as the source. The exception is the CD of graphic images which have no copyright.
© Making Two Worlds Work Project developed by Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation and Women’s Health Goulburn North East, 2008.