Aboriginal young people are experts in their own experience and are best placed to identify the solutions to their mental health and wellbeing needs. Given that Aboriginal young people experience high rates of mental health concerns and are less likely than non-Indigenous young people to access mental health services, co-design and evaluation of appropriate mental health care is a priority. ...

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Mainstream Australian mental health services are failing Aboriginal young people. Despite investing resources, improvements in well-being have not materialised. Culturally and age appropriate ways of working are needed to improve service access and responsiveness. This Aboriginal-led study brings Aboriginal Elders, young people and youth mental health service staff together to build relationships to co-design service models and evaluation tools. ...

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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse commissioned the Telethon Kids Institute to collaborate on a report ...

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Adolescent deliberate self-harm (DSH) has been found to be associated with a range of bio-psycho-social factors. ...

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Glenn Pearson G BA (Education) PhD Candidate Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership Area ...

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It is critical that health service evaluation frameworks include Aboriginal people and their cultural worldviews from design to implementation. During a large participatory action research study, Elders, service leaders and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers co-designed evaluation tools to test the efficacy of a previously co-designed engagement framework. Through a series of co-design workshops, tools were built using innovative collaborative processes that foregrounded Aboriginal worldviews. ...

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Field Fellowships in the Kimberley The Telethon Kids Institute is seeking two highly motivated and talented post-doctoral researchers to develop and ...

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Glenn Pearson's mother was a member of the Stolen Generation who went on to be Australia's first Aboriginal classical ballerina dancing with the WA ...

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Growing up poor is about more than just the size of your bank account. Read the new CoLab Impact of Poverty Evidence Report. ...

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Rebecca Fiona Carrington Glauert Stanley Shepherd RA FJ CCJ BPsych (Hons) PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP ...

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