MENTAL HEALTH
Our mental health program aims to improve people’s mental wellbeing on the Lands. We provide support for people with mental wellbeing problems managing medication regimes through our clinics. The team also provide community group programs, one to one and family counselling services. Referrals are made to other agencies on and off the Lands as considered appropriate on a professional basis.
PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT
PSS is a mental health support program. The aim of the program is to improve the independence, participation and lifetime wellbeing of people affected by mental illness, including building personal resilience and supporting them to sustainably manage the impacts on their lives. The team is made up of locally trained people who are supported by the program coordinator and a psychologist. Our team provides services tailored to participants that are strength-based, recovery-focused, and culturally appropriate through community consultation, employing local cultural brokers, peer support workers and case workers, and working in partnership with other services in the community.
ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS
The AOD program provides support and referral services for people and families across the Lands experiencing difficulties because of alcohol and other drug use. The model of service is based on community engagement, brief intervention and family therapy. There is a referral base to rehabilitation services off the Lands. The service providers work closely with other agencies across the Lands to provide comprehensive interventions and support for clients on a multi-agency basis. Referral and access to the program comes via personal contact or through the clinics, the courts or other agencies. The team consists of Alcohol and Other Drugs health professionals and locally engaged staff.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Environmental Health is encompassed within the broader area of public health. It involves assessment, correction, control and prevention of environmental factors that adversely affect human health and provides opportunities for improved health outcomes and health promoting environment.
Environmental health is an important and essential conduit for effective health promotion, risk and disease prevention and safe and hygienic housing. An environmental health presence in regional and remote communities is essential to ensure that health and housing services improve community living conditions and minimise health risks.
The major objective of the AEHP’s outcomes is to provide people with information, knowledge and understanding to improve and manage their own personal and family hygiene and the environmental conditions within the domestic home and community.
Our Environmental Health team recruits local people and works collaboratively with Council departments to deliver services and provide education to improve the environmental health of each community.
YARNANGU INCLUSION PROGRAM
The Yarnangu Inclusion Program works to deliver capacity building to disability clients in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands centred on improving their health & wellbeing, both physically & mentally. It provides individual support and group activities aimed at improving the overall wellbeing of people living on the Lands with disabilities.
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