Trial Community-based Cultural Mentoring Program
Funding: NTGPE
Duration: July 2013 – 2014
Location: Galiwin’ku
Summary:
The overarching goal of the Community-based Cultural Mentoring Program is to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people
To help achieve the overarching goal, the NTGPE Community-based Cultural Mentoring Program aims:
- To support cultural education through community involvement and participation
- To utilise the knowledge of community members in providing cultural mentoring as a valuable resource
- To increase the likelihood of a positive experience for both GPRs and PGPPPs and communities, during placements and decrease the effect of ‘culture shock’
- To improve cultural security for doctors, other health staff and Aboriginal community members
- To improve GPR and Junior Doctors well being and satisfaction of placement to increase the likelihood of them returning as GPs in the future and improve GP recruitment and retention rates
- To establish a network of skilled cultural mentors in remote communities in the NT
- To create employment and possible career paths for local Aboriginal people living in remote communities
Three Stages
Stage 1: Facilitating a workshop at Galiwin’ku to negotiate and plan a trial CMP at Galiwin’ku
Stage 2: Implementing, further developing, documenting, and evaluating the trial CCP at Galiwin’ku
Stage 3: Re-writing the 2009 CMP proposal to submit for funding based on the trial CMP at Galiwin’ku
Three Strands
Strand 1: Developing, implementing and evaluating a CMP at Galiwin’ku
Strand 2: Developing a professional learning (PL) program for local Indigenous Cultural Mentors and Cultural Educators
Strand 3: Developing a process that can be used to negotiate and develop similar community-based CMPs in other remote Indigenous communities in the NT
