WellMob – A Digital Wellbeing Tool for Workforce & Mob
Tracks
Ian McLachlan Room West
| Tuesday, October 25, 2022 |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM |
Overview
David Edwards & Sharnie Roberts, University Of Sydney - eMHprac
Speaker
Sharnie Roberts
Wellmob
WellMob – A Digital Wellbeing Tool for Workforce & Mob
Abstract
eMHprac’s WellMob website is designed for health practitioners and community workers to find online social and emotional wellbeing resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is a digital library (portal) of over 250 websites, videos, podcasts and even positive social media resources that can help our mob stay mentally well and connect with our culture.
WellMob is user-friendly and engaging and hosts many narrative based resources using storytelling techniques to supply information, rather than just giving a set of facts. This allows First Nations health clients and community to learn and connect with information through story. It is especially useful for our non-Indigenous health and wellbeing workforce as it provides a set of tools to better engage with their First Nations clients.
WellMob was co-developed with reference groups of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander frontline health & wellbeing workers from across the country. As well as giving the website’s development Indigenous governance, they guided the look, feel and functionality of WellMob. The project was led by Aboriginal staff at the University Centre of Rural Health (part of University of Sydney) under the eMHPrac (e-mental health in practice) project in collaboration with the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
The WellMob team will present on the website demonstrating its functionality, showcasing some deadly resources and illustrating examples how frontline workers and other health professionals can use it in their work with our diverse communities.
Since its launch in July 2020, WellMob has had a strong uptake with up to 16,000-page views a month. A culturally-based social media campaign has also directed new traffic to the website with the WellMob Facebook® page already with 3,000 followers in 18 months.
WellMob is user-friendly and engaging and hosts many narrative based resources using storytelling techniques to supply information, rather than just giving a set of facts. This allows First Nations health clients and community to learn and connect with information through story. It is especially useful for our non-Indigenous health and wellbeing workforce as it provides a set of tools to better engage with their First Nations clients.
WellMob was co-developed with reference groups of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander frontline health & wellbeing workers from across the country. As well as giving the website’s development Indigenous governance, they guided the look, feel and functionality of WellMob. The project was led by Aboriginal staff at the University Centre of Rural Health (part of University of Sydney) under the eMHPrac (e-mental health in practice) project in collaboration with the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
The WellMob team will present on the website demonstrating its functionality, showcasing some deadly resources and illustrating examples how frontline workers and other health professionals can use it in their work with our diverse communities.
Since its launch in July 2020, WellMob has had a strong uptake with up to 16,000-page views a month. A culturally-based social media campaign has also directed new traffic to the website with the WellMob Facebook® page already with 3,000 followers in 18 months.
Biography
Sharnie Roberts is a Widjabyl Wia-Bul woman from the Bundjalung Nation with bachelor’s degree in social sciences working on the WellMob project at University Centre for Rural Health in Training and Navigation.
Sharnie has a wealth of understanding of social and health determinants that impact the mental health well-being of First Nations people in Australia and is passionate about walking alongside First Nation young people to empower the reconnection to their cultural identity for generational healing.
Mr David Edwards
Director - Wellmob Website, Emhprac
Wellmob
WellMob – a Digital Wellbeing Tool for Workforce & Mob
11:10 AM - 11:30 AMAbstract
eMHprac’s WellMob website is designed for health practitioners and community workers to find online social and emotional wellbeing resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is a digital library (portal) of over 250 websites, videos, podcasts and even positive social media resources that can help our mob stay mentally well and connect with our culture.
WellMob is user-friendly and engaging and hosts many narrative based resources using storytelling techniques to supply information, rather than just giving a set of facts. This allows First Nations health clients and community to learn and connect with information through story. It is especially useful for our non-Indigenous health and wellbeing workforce as it provides a set of tools to better engage with their First Nations clients.
WellMob was co-developed with reference groups of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander frontline health & wellbeing workers from across the country. As well as giving the website’s development Indigenous governance, they guided the look, feel and functionality of WellMob. The project was led by Aboriginal staff at the University Centre of Rural Health (part of University of Sydney) under the eMHPrac (e-mental health in practice) project in collaboration with the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
The WellMob team will present on the website demonstrating its functionality, showcasing some deadly resources and illustrating examples how frontline workers and other health professionals can use it in their work with our diverse communities.
Since its launch in July 2020, WellMob has had a strong uptake with up to 16,000-page views a month. A culturally-based social media campaign has also directed new traffic to the website with the WellMob Facebook® page already with 3,000 followers in 18 months.
WellMob is user-friendly and engaging and hosts many narrative based resources using storytelling techniques to supply information, rather than just giving a set of facts. This allows First Nations health clients and community to learn and connect with information through story. It is especially useful for our non-Indigenous health and wellbeing workforce as it provides a set of tools to better engage with their First Nations clients.
WellMob was co-developed with reference groups of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander frontline health & wellbeing workers from across the country. As well as giving the website’s development Indigenous governance, they guided the look, feel and functionality of WellMob. The project was led by Aboriginal staff at the University Centre of Rural Health (part of University of Sydney) under the eMHPrac (e-mental health in practice) project in collaboration with the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.
The WellMob team will present on the website demonstrating its functionality, showcasing some deadly resources and illustrating examples how frontline workers and other health professionals can use it in their work with our diverse communities.
Since its launch in July 2020, WellMob has had a strong uptake with up to 16,000-page views a month. A culturally-based social media campaign has also directed new traffic to the website with the WellMob Facebook® page already with 3,000 followers in 18 months.
Biography
David Edwards is a Worimi man and is a Director for the WellMob website project under the national e-Mental Health in Practice program. David works with a deadly Indigenous team from University of Sydney's University Centre for Rural Health based in Bundjalung country. David also works promoting father-inclusive practice in the perinatal space with the University of Newcastle’s SMS4dads project, as Manager Indigenous Resources, as well as being a voluntary trainer for the Core of Life pregnancy and child birth educational program for young people. David is a member of the Dept of Health's National Digital Mental Health Advisory Group along with other national mental health reference groups to advocate for culturally informed practice for Indigenous Australians. David is Principal Consultant for 'Eco-Connections,' an environmental management and Indigenous health consultancy specialising in resourcing Aboriginal communities to promote connection to culture, wellbeing and country under self-deterministic models of engagement.
