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Programs and projects

This section provides details and links for programs and projects that address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's health in rural and remote areas.

Details and links (where available) relating to relevant programs, projects and lessons learned are collected here.

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Title	Reach	Focus
Aboriginal and remote communities power supply project	WA	Indigenous
Aboriginal communities water supply and sewerage program	NSW	Indigenous
Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands: development, delivery and evaluation of a training program for Aboriginal health workers to promote the musculoskeletal health of Indigenous people living in a rural community	NSW	Indigenous
Aboriginal lands clean-up program	NSW	Indigenous
Accessing palliative care in the Kimberley's remote Aboriginal communities	WA	Indigenous
Alpurrurulam skateboard program	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities (AMRRIC) Dog health programs	National	Indigenous
Animal management worker program	NT	Indigenous
Audit of Kimberley Aboriginal patients with proteinuria, chronic kidney disease and end stage kidney disease	WA	Indigenous
Australian feral camel management project	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Barkly Shire Council animal health program	NT	Indigenous
Barriers to effective infectious and parasitic disease interventions in Aboriginal communities	QLD	Indigenous
Bellary Springs community centre project (Gumala Aboriginal Corporation)	WA	Indigenous
Best practice in early intervention, assessment and treatment of depression and substance misuse (BEAT project)	NT	Indigenous
Bourke alcohol working group	NSW	Mainstream
Breaking the cycle of alcohol and drug abuse in Indigenous communities	National	Indigenous
Breathe easy, walk easy training program	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Broome mental health unit	WA	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Building a perinatal service model for a Western Australian Aboriginal community	WA	Indigenous
Building better roads	WA	Indigenous
Bush mobile program	NT	Indigenous
Cape York cannabis project	QLD	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Car bodies collection project	WA	Indigenous
Central Australian youth link up service (CAYLUS)	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Community services and assistance project (Gumala Aboriginal Corporation)	WA	Indigenous
Continence education in remote Australia project (CERAP) for Indigenous Health Workers	National	Indigenous
Coorong good food program	SA	Mainstream
Desert dogs	NT	Indigenous
Desert feet tour project	WA	Indigenous
Drink safe community initiative	NSW	Mainstream
DriveSafe NT remote	NT	Indigenous
Driving simulator for APY lands	SA	Indigenous
East Arnhem Shire Council animal welfare program	NT	Indigenous
Eat well outback South Australia project	SA	Mainstream
Fitzroy Valley palliative care service	WA	Indigenous
Fitzroy Valley physical activity program	WA	Indigenous
Fixing houses for better health projects	National	Indigenous
Food in rural South Australia survey	SA	Mainstream
Goldfields community drug service team	WA	Mainstream
Grey nomads: health and health preparation of older travellers in remote Australia	VIC	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Groote Eylandt liquor management	NT	Indigenous
Guidelines and best practice documentation - water services in remote Indigenous communities	National	Indigenous
Guidelines best practice docs - remote Indigenous communities: drinking water quality capacity building for remote Queensland communities	QLD	Indigenous
Haemodialysis outcomes of remote Kimberley origin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients	WA	Indigenous
Health and education needs analysis project (Gumala Aboriginal Corporation)	WA	Indigenous
Health eTowns	National	Mainstream
Health Interactive technology	National	Indigenous
Healthy and active in the West Kimberley (HAWK) now!	WA	Indigenous
Heart of the heart	NT	Indigenous
Hot water use and water heating systems in remote Indigenous communities	National	Indigenous
Indigenous community action to reduce harms associated with heavy cannabis use in remote communities in the Cape York region	QLD	Indigenous
Indigenous community dog health program	NSW	Indigenous
Julian Burton Burns Trust: Aboriginal strategy	SA	Indigenous
Kalgoorlie alcohol action project (KAAP)	WA	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Kidney kiosk	QLD	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Kimberley renal services	WA	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Kuka Kanyini project	SA	Indigenous
Let’s yarn with the whole Aboriginal community of Albury/Wodonga about cancer prevention, early diagnosis and better outcomes	VIC	Indigenous
Lifestyle education program	National	Indigenous
Linking youth and families together (LYFT)	VIC	Mainstream
Litter reduction pilot program East Arnhem	NT	Indigenous
Mai Wiru regional stores policy	SA	Indigenous
Mangarri Palya community cooking and nutrition project	NT	Indigenous
Maningrida smoke-busters	NT	Indigenous
Marulu: the Lililwan project	WA	Indigenous
Matharkal homelands resource centre, Mapuru food cooperative	NT	Indigenous
Milingimbi water management	NT	Indigenous
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flexible aged care program	National	Indigenous
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council (NPYWC) youth program	National	Indigenous
Northern Territory renal access program	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Our body, our community, our choice (In our own words) project	QLD	Indigenous
Outreach in the outback	WA	Indigenous
Partnerships for better health outcomes for Indigenous injecting drug users (IDUs)	VIC	Indigenous
Partnerships in rural health project	WA	Mainstream
Peel mobile health service	WA	Mainstream with Indigenous content
People on country, healthy landscapes and Indigenous economic futures	NT	Indigenous
Petrol sniffing strategy	National	Indigenous
Pilbara cities	WA	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Pilbara housing strategy project (Gumala Aboriginal Corporation)	WA	Indigenous
Pilot project for community engagement in water conservation at Ali Curung	NT	Indigenous
Protecting our mob from the pandemic	NSW	Indigenous
Quality of life and palliative care for clients in remote communities in the Northern Territory	NT	Indigenous
Reducing Aboriginal children's tobacco smoke exposure in the Pilbara	WA	Indigenous
Relapse prevention trial	NT	Indigenous
Remote and Indigenous communities clean up program	National	Indigenous
Remote areas driver education and training	NT	Indigenous
Remote areas essential services program (RAESP)	WA	Indigenous
Remote Indigenous gardens network	National	Indigenous
Remote Indigenous housing program	National	Indigenous
Remote Indigenous stores and takeaways project	National	Indigenous
Remote Meals on wheels training package	NT	Indigenous
Renal (dialysis) health project (Gumala Aboriginal Corporation)	WA	Indigenous
Road safety education in remote South Australian Indigenous communities	SA	Indigenous
Road safety in Bidyadanga	WA	Indigenous
Road safety infrastructure assessments of 66 Aboriginal communities	NSW	Indigenous
Royalties for regions	WA	Mainstream
Rural Aboriginal Health Worker program	SA	Indigenous
Rural and remote road safety collaborative study: research and intervention to reduce economic, medical and social costs of road crashes in North Queensland	QLD	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Rural in reach program	WA	Mainstream
Safety promotion and injury prevention program for rural and remote Aboriginal health and community workers	NSW	Indigenous
School Nutrition Program	NT	Indigenous
Sexual health program	SA	Indigenous
Skin pathogens	NT	Indigenous
Smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical activity (SNAP) into life project	WA	Indigenous
Social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing framework project	QLD	Indigenous
Story development project	NT	Indigenous
Strategic Indigenous housing and infrastructure program (now incorporated under the National partnership agreement on remote Indigenous housing)	NT	Indigenous
Strong literacy and numeracy in communities	NT	Indigenous
Substance use program (Tullawon Health Service)	SA	Indigenous
Suicide story training project	NT	Indigenous
Supporting women in rural areas diagnosed with breast cancer program	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Tackling waste in bush communities	NT	Indigenous
Test, treat and go trial (TTANGO)	QLD	Indigenous
The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands; APY Lands: waste management trials	SA	Indigenous
The Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Indigenous population project	National	Indigenous
Tiwi mental health service	NT	Indigenous
Tom Price elderly complex	WA	Indigenous
Trachoma screening in the Kimberley	WA	Indigenous
Umbakumba aged care program	NT	Indigenous
Uncovering the secrets of Indigenous medicines	QLD	Indigenous
UPK	SA	Indigenous
Urlampe septic tank project	NT	Indigenous
VidKids	National	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Water and wastewater services in remote (including Indigenous) communities	National	Indigenous
Waterproofing homelands – Kimberley water strategy	WA	Indigenous
Well women's cancer screening program	NT	Mainstream with Indigenous content
Western desert kidney health project	WA	Indigenous
Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation mobile renal dialysis unit project	NT	Indigenous
Woorabinda road safety trial	QLD	Indigenous
Working together	NSW	Indigenous
Working together for healthier Mullewa kids	WA	Indigenous
Wugularr youth petrol sniffing prevention program	NT	Indigenous
Wunggurr Rangers storybook project	WA	Indigenous
Wurli-Wurlinjang alcohol and other drug unit	NT	Indigenous
Yard proud in Engawala	NT	Indigenous
Yiriman ranger project	WA	Indigenous
Yiriman youth project	WA	Indigenous
Yirrkala active cooking	NT	Indigenous
Yiyili composting program	WA	Indigenous
Youth wellbeing project	NT	Indigenous
Yuendumu old peoples program	NT	Indigenous

Last updated: 9 May 2013

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