NAIDOC Week - Our Aboriginal and mental health partnership

TO celebrate and formally recognise NAIDOC Week, WAAMH would like to announce our involvement with the Looking Forward Project.

The WAAMH management team has embarked on a journey with the Aboriginal elders and the Looking Forward Project team, to meet and discuss how to better equip community mental health services with the capacity to provide support for Nyoongar peoples.

It is a partnership that WAAMH is honoured to be part of and dedicated to its success.

The Looking Forward Project is funded by the Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing (Telethon Kids Institute, UWA), LotteryWest, Curtin University, and the Mental Health Commission (WA), in partnership with Ruah Community Services.

The project is located on Wadjuk Boodja and we pay our respects to the Elders past and present and thank them for their guidance.

More on Looking Forward Project.

Photo: (From left) Tanya Jones, Ann Elliott, Rosemary Walley, Rod Astbury, Aunty Helen Kickett, Uncle Charlie Kickett, Dr Michael Wright, Danny Ford, Katrina Bercov, Chelsea McKinney, Coralie Flatters, Brooke Johns. Photo by Marg O’Connell.