“Cultural Awareness”

The Indigenous Wellbeing Centre (IWC) has developed a Cultural Awareness - Responsive Training Program for Health Professionals aimed at gaining a better insight and understanding of cultural issues and responding to clients needs, in effect improving compliance. Our training was developed by local Elders and assists by providing valuable information and learnings through interactive learning modules.

Cultural Awareness is Cultural Safety

Cultural safety is primarily one of a range of barriers that Indigenous people have in accessing primary health care.  Others include service availability, isolation, language, education, finance and transport. 

The concept of cultural safety applies at individual, organisational and system levels.  Studies show that culturally safe practices improve health outcomes, staff efficiency and effectiveness, and client satisfaction.

Cultural safety means;

∙                 Being prepared to examine your own cultural realities and attitudes;

∙                 Allowing Indigenous patients to teach you about their personal realities;

∙                 Being aware of cultural diversity and dynamism;

∙                 Being able to function effectively and respectfully when working with and

                  treating Indigenous people;

∙                 Being open-minded and flexible in your attitudes towards Indigenous people;

∙                 Appreciating the power differentials and how this impacts on Indigenous

                  patients;

∙                 Recognising the historical and social issues that continue to impact on

                  Indigenous health.

There is a growing understanding that it is now critical for Indigenous people across the country to have access to culturally safe and effective primary health care services where their holistic view of health is recognised.  There is also recognition that mainstream health services must step-up to this challenge.

IWC can provide Cultural Responsive Training

Contact us for a quote - Prices are based on group 

Local information and history is only part of the Package as insert below:

The authors wish to thank Creator Spirit and the descendants of the ancestors of the Terrabalang Bunda people for allowing our feet to walk across, and our voices to be heard across their Sacred Country.  Creator Spirit took the brown earth from this country, the red from round Childers way, the black from round Isis and Gin Gin, the brown from the banks of the Baffle Creek, the Burnett River and Elliott Rivers and the white sands from along the coast and created the ancestors of the Teribalang Bunda people,and their neighbours the Waka Waka, the Warlu Warlu, the Willi Willi, the Goreng, the Gurang Gurang, the Batjala, and the Kabi Kabi peoples.  The tribes have lived together on the country that has owned the Teribalang Bunda for over 40,000 years.

The Songlines of all these tribes marked out their boundaries and their passage ways for trade, for visits, for ceremonies, for warring, for healing ceremonies, for cultural exchanges and for walkabout trails.

These Songlines crisscross under the foundations of the city that has been built here.  The descendents of these tribal peoples who continue to live in this region today and who are connected through kin, marriage, and skin relations still follow the protocols of the "Welcome Blessing" into and onto Teribalang Bunda country.

We welcome you to read and gain knowledge about our peoples as you read this Manual.

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