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Cultural Safety workshops with Khadija Gbla (free event)

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Morella Community Centre in collaboration with Khadija Gbla, October 2019 WHAT IS CULTURAL SAFETY? Cultural safety is identified as “an environment that is safe for people: where there is no assault, challenge or denial of their identity, of who they are and what they need. It is about shared respect, shared meaning, shared knowledge and experience, of learning, living and working together with...

‘My mob is telling their story and it makes me feel good’: here’s what Aboriginal survivors of child sexual abuse told us they need

The Conversation, October 22, 2019 6.00am AEDT There are an estimated 60,000 survivors of institutional child sexual abuse in Australia. Based on the private sessions held as part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 15% of survivors are Aboriginal. That suggests an estimated 9,000 Aboriginal survivors. This is likely an under estimation. Not only do...

Video: teaching Arabs to talk about sex

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BBC news, 09 Jul 2019 Safa Tamish teaches Palestinians to talk about sex, a topic often seen as taboo in the Arab world. She encourages workshop participants to speak frankly, for example not shying away from using proper names for body parts in Arabic. A survey for BBC Arabic across the Middle East and North Africa has looked at attitudes on issues ranging from religion to homosexuality and...

FRESH: Aboriginal Focus course on 27-28 June

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SHINE SA, 29/05/2019 The FRESH Course: Aboriginal Focus is a 2-day course for workers who wish to improve their sexual and reproductive health knowledge and address sexual and reproductive health and relationship issues within Aboriginal communities. On completion of the FRESH course, you will: have an increased level of confidence working with Aboriginal communities in the area of sexual health...

SA drug bill risks another Stolen Gen: Aboriginal Health Council

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InDaily, March 21st, 2018 The head of South Australia’s peak Aboriginal health body has warned that a State Government plan to enforce mandatory drug treatment on young people risks dispossessing Aboriginal children of their culture. Aboriginal Health Council state branch CEO Shane Mohor has joined a growing chorus of social service and health bodies that have criticised the Controlled Substance...

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