Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service

• Reach:

  ACT

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Category:

  Non-government

Description

Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service was established in 1998 as a primary health care service, initiated and managed by the local Aboriginal community to provide a culturally safe and holistic health service to the Aboriginal people of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It offers a range of medical services and also runs a number of social health programs and services (employing both female and male counselling and support staff) including:

• social and emotional wellbeing programs
• substance use counselling, support and advocacy
• outreach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre and the Alexander Maconochie Centre
• a needle and syringe exchange program
• a range of tobacco cessation services including personal advice, outreach, subsidised nicotine replacement therapy, and the No more bundah quit smoking group.

Contacts

Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
63 Boolimba Crescent
Narrabundah ACT 2604
Ph: (02) 6284 6222
Fax: (02) 6284 6200
Free call: 1800 110 290 or 1800 120 859

Links

• View website: Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Services