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Training and Development Centre

AHCWA Training and Development Centre delivers nationally accredited and recognised courses to enable service delivery to better meet the needs of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community by providing culturally appropriate training and development.

For more information please visit AHCWA's Training and Development website www.ahcwatraining.com.au 

 

 

Program: Communications

AHCWA Newsletter

Click here for current and previous editions of AHCWA NEWS

 

Program: Regional Planning

Advocacy and Regional Planning is promoting Regional Planning Forums, community interests and advocay where emergency situations arise, practical measures to address major gaps in primary health service delivery to Aboriginal people and issues related to cross-border health service provision in the "tri-state" region.

 

Program: Health Promotion

AHCWA leads the WA Aboriginal Health Promotion Collaboration Program, which represents 19 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. Program partners include the Asthma Foundation WA, Cancer Council WA, Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health, Curtin University (School of Public Health), Diabetes WA, institute of Child Health Research/Kulunga, and the National Heart Foundation of Australia (WA division).

 

Program: Cultural Safety Training

Culturally Secure Health Services: Cultural Safety Training

In 2007, the Aboriginal Health Council of WA entered into a contract with the Department of Health and Ageing to undertake a systematic revision and expansion of the Cultural Safety Training (CST) materials that were developed by AHCWA in 2005.

 

Program: Beyond the Big Smoke

Beyond the BIG Smoke

Beyond the Big Smoke was initiated by AHCWA within the member Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHs) to reduce smoking in Aboriginal communities. The program developed from a consortium led by AHCWA and included KAMSC, UWA, Curtin and Murdoch Universities, the heart foundation and the Cancer Council, and is jointly funded through the Australian Respiratory Council and Healthways.
 

AHCWA Program: Secure Aboriginal Medical Service Information System (SAMSIS)

SAMSIS is a web-based information system for participating Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) and their peak bodies.  It provides on-line lodgement for Service Activity Reports (Health Services Directory), Workforce Directory and Population and Community Profiles.

 

AHCWA Program: National Business Support Website

AHCWA is developing the National Business Support Website on behalf of NACCHO and the State and Territory Affiliates.  The website provides information on Corporate Governance, Financial Management, Human Resources, ICT and Information Management and Cultural Safety for OATSIH Funded Community Controlled Health and related organisations.

 
Welcome

Welcome to the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA) website

What is AHCWA?

The Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA) was incorporated under the Commonwealth Corporations Law in February-March 2005. It replaced the Western Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (WAACCHO) as a the peak body for 19 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) in WA. ACCHSs are also known as Aboriginal Medical Services. 

 AHCWA Newsletter

The latest edition of AHCWA NEWS is now available. Click here to download (1.47 MB)

 

AHCWA Annual Report 2007-2008:
Improving the health and well-being of Aboriginal peoples in Western Australia. Click here to download (3.12 MB)


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Latest News

Media Alerts

 

Official Opening of New AHCWA Building

 

AHCWA has moved into its new offices at Dilhorn House, 2 Bulwer Street Perth. The new building was opened by AHCWA Chair Vicki O'Donnell and AHCWA CEO Darryl Kickett at an offiicial ceremony on June 24 2009.


 

 

 

 

 

 

WA Premier Signs Statement of Intent

WA Premier Colin Barnett and Deputy Premier; Minister for Health; Indigenous Affairs Kim Hames have signed the Statement of Intent to 'Close the Gap'.

 

Click here to view the 'Close the Gap' Statement of Intent document (473.13 kB)

 

2009 WA Aboriginal Health Sector Conference 'Developing New Health Leadership'

 

The presentation slides from the 2009 WA Aboriginal Health Sector Conference are now available on the AHCWA website. Presentations from both days of the Conference can be accessed via the following link:

 

2009 WA Aboriginal Health Sector Conference Presentations 

 

e-Primary Health Practitioners Seminar April15 - April 16.

 

e-Primary Health - Making it happen for clients and service providers in the Tri-State Region. Click here for more information.

 

 

..MEDIA ALERT…..

WEDNESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2009 AT 11.15am IN NARROGIN

 

Aboriginal groups eagerly await State Government funding commitment to address Narrogin suicide crisis ... download here  Media-Alert_Narrogin_2009_02_02

 

6th January 2009


Call for Indigenous Health Worker College

EFFORTS to improve Australia's woeful record on Aboriginal health are being held back by poor co-ordination, and greater strides could be made by setting up a national college bringing together medical, nursing and other professionals.

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6th October 2008

Call for more Indigenous Doctors

The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association (AIDA) says Aboriginal children need better education so they can become health workers and doctors.

The association says Indigenous people have a deeper understanding of health issues in their communities and bring traditional healing techniques passed down through generations to the medical profession.

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1st October 2008

Nurses call for single award standard

The Australian Nurses Federation is calling on the Federal Government to protect nurses' wages and conditions by creating a single award for the profession.

In a submission to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, the Federation has asked for the current award system to be consolidated and to provide minimum entitlements for nurses across all health sectors.

Secretary Ged Kearney says the Federal Government should not move nurses to separate industry-based awards.

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4th September 2008

Territory care system has 'serious flaws'
The Australian - Sydney, Australia 4th Sept 2008
In its submission to the federal Government's intervention review team,
chaired by indigenous leader Peter Yu, the Secretariat of National
Aboriginal.... Read more

 

29th August 2008

Hard questions are 'long overdue'
The Australian - Sydney, Australia
... oversaw dramatic improvements in student attendance and achievement,
said the quality of education in remote Aboriginal schools had been ignored. ...

Intervention 'has done lasting harm'
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... of the intervention, such as an increase in police, additional teachers and "much-needed government attention" on the issue of Aboriginal health. ...
 
UK and Australia Fight Breast Cancer with Free Screening for Women 50+
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Similarly, each state does its utmost to reach the Aboriginal community
through the group, Aboriginal Health Care Workers.
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July
NAIDOC Week
July 05, 2009 - July 12, 2009

November
NACCHO CEO Forum
November 08, 2009

NACCHO Board Meeting
November 09, 2009

NACCHO AGM & Members' Meeting
November 10, 2009 - November 13, 2009

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