Our healing ways

• Reach:

  VIC

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Completed

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

Our healing ways was a project of the Victorian dual diagnosis initiative and was supported by the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO), Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS), and Ngwala Willumbong State-wide Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Service.

The project aimed to:

• discover what skilled, experienced Aboriginal workers do to support the healing of people with both mental health and drug and alcohol issues
• develop culturally appropriate resources that are based on the experiences, successful strategies, processes, skills and qualities of Aboriginal workers.

Outcomes of the project included the development of three resources (see links below):

1. Our Healing Ways: putting wisdom into practice: working with co-existing mental health and drug and alcohol issues: Aboriginal way
2. Our Healing Ways: supervision: a culturally appropriate model for Aboriginal workers
3. The relationship between alcohol and drugs and mental health: a resource book for Aboriginal workers.

Abstract adapted from Dual Diagnosis Australia and New Zealand

Contacts

Katherine Bakos
Coordinator of Our healing ways project
Victorian dual diagnosis initiative
Education and Training Unit
St Vincent's Hospital
PO Box 2900
Fitzroy Vic 3065
Ph: (03) 9288 3855
Fax: (03) 9288 3370
Mobile: 0411 958 314
Email: Katherine.Bakos@svhm.org.au

Links

• View information: Our healing ways resources
• View information: Our Healing Ways: putting wisdom into practice: working with co-existing mental health and drug and alcohol issues: Aboriginal way
• View information: Our Healing Ways: supervision: a culturally appropriate model for Aboriginal workers
• View information: The relationship between alcohol and drugs and mental health: a resource book for Aboriginal workers
• View website: Dual Diagnosis Australia and New Zealand