Webinar
Health services should be culturally safe and welcoming to people from any cultural backgrounds, however there is evidence that Aboriginal people receive less benefit from non-Aboriginal health services than non-Aboriginal people. This project aimed to plan, implement and evaluate a new process to drive organisational improvements in the cultural responsiveness of non-Aboriginal services. An overview of the culturally responsiveness process and findings from the evaluation will be presented.
Sara is Program Lead, RISE Team (Research, Innovate, Strengthen, Embed) at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW. Her research is focused on preventing harms from alcohol and other drugs in rural and regional NSW and working collaboratively with communities to tailor health services and strategies to suit their setting.
Raechel Wallace a proud First Nations woman from Wandi Wandian and Wodi Wodi country within the Yuin Nation. She has been working in the Aboriginal alcohol and other drug sector for almost 20 years. She is currently working as a Senior Research Officer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales and as Aboriginal Program Manager for the Network of Drug and Alcohol agencies (NADA) which is the alcohol and other drug Peak body for NSW. She is also a Director on the Aboriginal Corporation Drug and Alcohol Network of NSW