Providers can access the following services to support their delivery of culturally appropriate primary health care for Aboriginal people.
- Dandenong and District Aborigines Co-operative Ltd. (DDACL), including the Bunurong Health Service, is the key local Aboriginal Controlled health organisation. DDACL has a range of specialised services and programs for the Aboriginal community.
- Ngwala Willumbong is also a local Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation. Ngwala Willumbong delivers alcohol and drug residential rehabilitation and outreach support services.
- Bunjilwarra is a Koori youth alcohol and drug healing service, located on the Mornington Peninsula, for those people who are drug-free and ready to address addiction management goals.
- Taskforce offers a First People's Healing Program supporting individuals and their immedicate family around concerns related to Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) misuse. The program is available across Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas.
- First People’s Health and Wellbeing provides services that help meet the health and wellbeing needs of Australian First Peoples, including mental health and AOD related services.
Aboriginal Health Liaisons and services exist within the local health networks:
Aboriginal gathering places strengthen communities through sharing cultural heritage, and participation in health, recreation and social activities. They are also a resource for the broader Australian community to learn and connect. Gathering places are established in Hastings, Frankston, Doveton and Mordialloc.
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SEMPHN acknowledges the Bunurong and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies in which we work. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We also acknowledge all First Nations peoples with whom we work. Sovereignty was never ceded!