Digital-Social and Emotional Wellbeing Resources for Indigenous Communities
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Malama guligi (King brown)
| Monday, October 30, 2023 |
| 11:25 AM - 11:45 AM |
Overview
Sharnie Roberts, University Centre Of Rural Health
Speaker
Ms Sharnie Roberts
Staff Training And Development
University Centre Of Rural Health
Digital-Social and Emotional Wellbeing Resources for Indigenous Communities
Abstract
E-Mental Health in Practice (eMHPrac) is a support service funded by the Australian Government to build digital mental health awareness and skills in primary care practitioners across the country.
During eMHPrac training session participants are shown a range of Indigenous digital-social and emotional well-being resources.
1. The first is WellMob, a website that brings together online social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
2. The second is the Stay Strong App, a well-being intervention designed with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people over the last 20 years.
The WellMob website was codesigned with First Nations people across three sites in Australia and reflects that connection to country, culture, community, and kin is instrumental in Indigenous wellbeing. It is a digital library of Indigenous-specific online well-being resources to make it easy for health workers and the community to find and use these in their well-being practices.
The Stay Strong app uses an approach to well-being developed by the Aboriginal Islander Mental Health Initiative (AIMhi) in the NT with 20 years of research and evaluation into what is now called the Stay Strong approach. This brief intervention uses a strengths-based tool that recognises family, culture, community, and country as central to wellbeing.
During eMHPrac training session participants are shown a range of Indigenous digital-social and emotional well-being resources.
1. The first is WellMob, a website that brings together online social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
2. The second is the Stay Strong App, a well-being intervention designed with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people over the last 20 years.
The WellMob website was codesigned with First Nations people across three sites in Australia and reflects that connection to country, culture, community, and kin is instrumental in Indigenous wellbeing. It is a digital library of Indigenous-specific online well-being resources to make it easy for health workers and the community to find and use these in their well-being practices.
The Stay Strong app uses an approach to well-being developed by the Aboriginal Islander Mental Health Initiative (AIMhi) in the NT with 20 years of research and evaluation into what is now called the Stay Strong approach. This brief intervention uses a strengths-based tool that recognises family, culture, community, and country as central to wellbeing.
Biography
Sharnie Roberts is a Widjabul Wyabal woman from the Bundjalung nation. Sharnie has a bachelor’s degree in social sciences and works at the University of Sydney’s University for Rural Health in Lismore NSW as Training & engagement officer on the WellMob project.
Michelle has worked for over 20 years predominately alongside Aboriginal-controlled organisations and research Institutions in NT and more recently SA as a researcher, trainer, consultant and manager. Her passions lie with advocating, exploring and developing innovative strategies to address health issues.
