Wellmob: Weaving Digital Wellbeing Resources into Practice
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Bilby Room: In-Person Only
| Monday, October 20, 2025 |
| 1:55 PM - 2:15 PM |
| Bilby Room (M1&2) |
Overview
David Edwards & Sharnie Roberts, WellMob website - eMHPrac
Presenter
Mr David Edwards
Director
WellMob website - eMHPrac
Wellmob: Weaving Digital Wellbeing Resources into Practice
Presentation Overview
This presentation features innovative and simple to use Resource Sheets for health and wellbeing workers that short list the best online SEWB resources found on the WellMob website. The sheets make it quick and easy for time-poor workers to find credible and culturally responsive resources on a range of wellbeing topics to use with their First Nations clients.
Whilst the WellMob website was co-designed as an online library of reputable and culturally safe SEWB resources, it has now grown to host over 600 health and wellbeing resources. Many users feel overwhelmed with the depth and diversity of this online content, including time poor workers. Despite a high level of satisfaction with the website, the Resource Sheets were developed to overcome this ‘information overload’ to assist workforce in navigating and using online content in consults, for health literacy and for their own PD.
The Resource Sheets are interactive pdf’s that provide short cuts to the top online resources on a range of common topics. These include: anxiety, depression, cultural identity as well as workforce development issues such as understanding the impacts of colonisation, trauma informed care and how to be a good ally.
The WellMob project is part of the national e-Mental Health in Practice consortium and based in Bundjalung Country at the University of Sydney’s University Centre for Rural Health. Whilst the project has a national workforce development focus, the interests and perspectives of rural and remote communities is at the forefront of consideration for any content development.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Demonstrate how and when to use these Resource Sheets irrespective of workforce role
2. Client scenarios to demonstrate how to utilise the linked resources in practice
3. Identify barriers and enablers in using digital interventions/ online content in client-centred roles.
Whilst the WellMob website was co-designed as an online library of reputable and culturally safe SEWB resources, it has now grown to host over 600 health and wellbeing resources. Many users feel overwhelmed with the depth and diversity of this online content, including time poor workers. Despite a high level of satisfaction with the website, the Resource Sheets were developed to overcome this ‘information overload’ to assist workforce in navigating and using online content in consults, for health literacy and for their own PD.
The Resource Sheets are interactive pdf’s that provide short cuts to the top online resources on a range of common topics. These include: anxiety, depression, cultural identity as well as workforce development issues such as understanding the impacts of colonisation, trauma informed care and how to be a good ally.
The WellMob project is part of the national e-Mental Health in Practice consortium and based in Bundjalung Country at the University of Sydney’s University Centre for Rural Health. Whilst the project has a national workforce development focus, the interests and perspectives of rural and remote communities is at the forefront of consideration for any content development.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Demonstrate how and when to use these Resource Sheets irrespective of workforce role
2. Client scenarios to demonstrate how to utilise the linked resources in practice
3. Identify barriers and enablers in using digital interventions/ online content in client-centred roles.
Biography
David Edwards is a Worimi man who has a Science and Indigenous Health promotion background and is Director of the WellMob website, under the national e-Mental Health in Practice project. 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 First Nations Australians.
Sharnie Roberts
Wellmob: Weaving Digital Wellbeing Resources into Practice
Presentation Overview
This presentation features innovative and simple to use Resource Sheets for health and wellbeing workers that short list the best online SEWB resources found on the WellMob website. The sheets make it quick and easy for time-poor workers to find credible and culturally responsive resources on a range of wellbeing topics to use with their First Nations clients.
Whilst the WellMob website was co-designed as an online library of reputable and culturally safe SEWB resources, it has now grown to host over 600 health and wellbeing resources. Many users feel overwhelmed with the depth and diversity of this online content, including time poor workers. Despite a high level of satisfaction with the website, the Resource Sheets were developed to overcome this ‘information overload’ to assist workforce in navigating and using online content in consults, for health literacy and for their own PD.
The Resource Sheets are interactive pdf’s that provide short cuts to the top online resources on a range of common topics. These include: anxiety, depression, cultural identity as well as workforce development issues such as understanding the impacts of colonisation, trauma informed care and how to be a good ally.
The WellMob project is part of the national e-Mental Health in Practice consortium and based in Bundjalung Country at the University of Sydney’s University Centre for Rural Health. Whilst the project has a national workforce development focus, the interests and perspectives of rural and remote communities is at the forefront of consideration for any content development.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Demonstrate how and when to use these Resource Sheets irrespective of workforce role
2. Client scenarios to demonstrate how to utilise the linked resources in practice
3. Identify barriers and enablers in using digital interventions/ online content in client-centred roles.
Whilst the WellMob website was co-designed as an online library of reputable and culturally safe SEWB resources, it has now grown to host over 600 health and wellbeing resources. Many users feel overwhelmed with the depth and diversity of this online content, including time poor workers. Despite a high level of satisfaction with the website, the Resource Sheets were developed to overcome this ‘information overload’ to assist workforce in navigating and using online content in consults, for health literacy and for their own PD.
The Resource Sheets are interactive pdf’s that provide short cuts to the top online resources on a range of common topics. These include: anxiety, depression, cultural identity as well as workforce development issues such as understanding the impacts of colonisation, trauma informed care and how to be a good ally.
The WellMob project is part of the national e-Mental Health in Practice consortium and based in Bundjalung Country at the University of Sydney’s University Centre for Rural Health. Whilst the project has a national workforce development focus, the interests and perspectives of rural and remote communities is at the forefront of consideration for any content development.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Demonstrate how and when to use these Resource Sheets irrespective of workforce role
2. Client scenarios to demonstrate how to utilise the linked resources in practice
3. Identify barriers and enablers in using digital interventions/ online content in client-centred roles.
Biography
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