Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Alice Springs, School of Medicine Flinders NT

1. Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & WellbeingAlice Springs, School of MedicineFlinders NT

2. Poche Alice Springs • Professor Della Yarnold (Director – on extended leave) • Professor Dean Carson 0.1 • Ms Colleen Hayes 1.0 Aboriginal Cultural Educator • Mr John Reid 0.5 PhD Candidate, 0.5 Indigenous Research • Dr Kerry Taylor, 1.0 Senior Research Fellow, Acting Deputy Director • Ms Maria Thompson 1.0 Aboriginal Research Officer, • Ms Annette McCarthy casual Aboriginal Research Officer, attached to Faculty Grant Research, end June 2013 • ?, 1.0 Administration Officer, position vacant 19/4/2013

3. Poche Alice Springs coverage Alice Springs Tennant Creek Katherine Nhulunbuy

4. Strategic objectives Preparation of culturally safe health workforces Aboriginal health literacy – incl. workforce Professional/patient communication Incorporation of Indigenous knowledges Early childhood issues (incorporating Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [FASD]) Mental health/well-being Chronic condition co-management- renal, diabetes

5. Poche Scholarships Poche Scholarships - to assist a mature student, with significant family responsibilities, to successfully pursue a Faculty of Health Sciences degree. NTMP – Aboriginal student Year 3, 4 Higher degree student- Maree Meredith

6. Poche Scholarships

7. Poche Teaching • Year 3/4 medical Cultural Safety sessions • CRH Remote Health Programs – Cultural safety, Historical Overview, Intercultural Communications • Poche Adelaide Cultural Safety Workshop, Medical First Years • CLIC students, RUSC students • Medicare Locals – Cultural Safety for GP services • ED, ICU, RFDS • WDNWPT, Waltja, Amity • MHACA –cultural safety perspective to Suicide Story Training • Development of teaching materials for the medical curriculum • Invited Presentations/ Seminars delivered by Poche staff

8. Poche Research • Scoping education curricula Indigenous content • Faculty grant Teaching Cultural Safety • Suicide Referral Pathway • Health literacy project – dementia grant pending • Purple House Cookbook for renal patients and family • ‘Changing short term populations in rural and remote South Australia and the Northern Territory’ • ‘Future Change in Ancient Worlds: Indigenous adaptation to climate change in Northern Australia’ • ‘Demographic and Social Change in the Northern Territory.. ‘Flexible Career Pathways for an Aboriginal Health Workforce’

9. Current Student Involvement • Colleen Hayes Grad. Dip Remote Health Management • John Reid, PhD Candidate • Maree Meredith, PhD Candidate • JosepheinZwart, PhD Candidate • Emanjilli Marie PhD Bendigo • Alice Kemble PhD Candidate USyd • Anthea Brand, PhD Candidate

10. Ms Colleen Hayes, & Dr Kerry Taylor, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & Wellbeing, Alice Springs0 Teaching & learning from each other: Cultural Safety

11. Publications 2012-current • Dementia Report • Dementia Article • Indigenous Mind • Cultural safety in Suicide Prevention • Suicide Attempt referral pathways • Towards systematic data collection

12. Consultations/Collaboration • CRH teaching & research • MHACA Suicide Story – adding Cultural Safety Perspectives • MHACA Suicide referral pathway • Dementia grant – shared language of dementia • WDNWPT – health literacy, cultural safety, audit tool, cookbook • ICU Communication DVD • ACEM Indigenous curriculum - resources

13. Other Publications Taylor & Guerin 2010 Palgrave-Macmillan 2nd Edition 2014

14. Committees Flinders NT Expert Evaluation Committee CAHREC FCOATSIH ACEM Indigenous Health Curriculum Indigenous Reference Group Kidney Action Network

15. Two cultures collaborating in a culturally safe way