The 2024 Healthy North Coast Better Health Community Survey highlights a powerful opportunity to strengthen Aboriginal health outcomes. In 2023, 24% of Aboriginal people in the North Coast region accessed health checks compared to the Australian average of 56%.

Health professionals have a powerful role to play in creating culturally safe environments that support Aboriginal people to feel respected, understood, and empowered in their healthcare journeys. When care is culturally safe, it builds trust, strengthens relationships, and opens pathways to better health outcomes.

Delivered in partnership with Ochre and Salt, this training supports local health professionals to deliver culturally safe healthcare to their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.

Module 1 & 2: Online

These eLearning modules by Ochre and Salt must be completed before attending the face-to-face workshop (Module 3).

Combined the modules will take approximately two and half hours to complete online.

Module 3: In person workshop and on-country experience

This face-to-face group education component includes cultural engagement workshop, catered morning tea and lunch, and an on-Country cultural experience.

• 9:00am – 12.30pm: Cultural Safety Workshop
• 12:30pm – 2:30pm: On-Country Cultural Experience with Local Elder

Facilitated by Healthy North Coast:

• Hilton Naden – Senior Manager, Aboriginal Health Partnerships
• Uncle David Kelly – Reconciliation Action Plan Lead

Learning objectives

• Consider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences of health and illness.
• Explain the historical impact on contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• Enhance confidence to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
• Evaluate your cultural safety practices and implement steps to provide culturally safe and acceptable healthcare to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
• Appraise the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural perspectives as individual and kinship structures and social determinants of health and wellbeing.

Who should attend?
Primary healthcare professionals, such as GPs, practice nurses, practice managers and allied health professionals wanting to increase the cultural safety in their practice.