The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has demanded the State Government prioritise more funding for early intervention programs that promote positive families to help reduce the high number of Aboriginal children in state care.
AHCWA chairperson Michelle Nelson-Cox has responded to comments by WA Treasurer and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt in Monday’s The West Australian, in which he said he was “deeply and personally c...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has called on the major political parties to commit to changing spending priorities in Aboriginal health.
The Council wants whichever party wins the upcoming election to redirect health spending to prevention, promotion, early intervention and community-based services, and to commit to more consultation with Aboriginal people on health issues.
“Investing in community-based services is proven...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has welcomed a State Government commitment to fund suicide prevention training in the Kimberley as a step in the right direction.
The government today announced $145,000 would be provided to organisations in the Kimberley to conduct suicide prevention training, with $93,000 of this allocated to train Aboriginal people.
AHCWA Chairperson Michelle Nelson-Cox said the funding was a good first st...
The Carnarvon Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation is back on track after appointing a new General Manager and three new board members.
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA had to step in to take over management of CMSAC after it fell into financial difficulty under the management of its previous CEO Shane Van Styn, who was removed from his position.
A full independent audit of CMSAC’s finances has now been finalised for the...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA is pleased to have secured Federal Government
funding to ensure the future of the Carnarvon Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation.
AHCWA is now overseeing the management and finances of CMSAC, after the
organisation fell into financial difficulties and the former CEO was removed.
An investigation into the former CEO Shane Van Styn’s handling of CMSAC’s finances is
still ongoing.
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has called on the Federal Government to act on
the recommendations of a recent report and increase funding for eye health among
Aboriginal people.
The PwC report found that more than 32,000 Indigenous Australians would go blind over
the next decade unless the Federal Government increased funding.
AHCWA said it was deplorable that a third of Aboriginal adults had never had even a
basic ey...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA (AHCWA) has welcomed news that WA’s mobile
eye health clinic will begin taking services to more remote areas of the state.
The State Government has committed $4 million in funding which will allow the eye
health clinic to now reach remote parts of regional Western Australia.
Lotterywest funding will also be used for research and evaluation as well as vehicle
modifications to get the mobile...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA (AHCWA) says its anti-smoking program for Aboriginal people will have to be cancelled if the Federal Government does not renew its funding.
The program currently receives $1.3 million annually in government funding, but this is due to run out on 31 March 2015.
AHCWA Chairperson Michelle Nelson-Cox said the effects of cancelling the program could be severe.
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