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Aboriginal Health Promotion Coordinator awarded Scholarship 30 May 2022 Our very own Aboriginal Health Promotion Coordinator, James Gibson, has been awarded the Rob Riley Memorial MBA Scholarship to undertake a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Curtin University. The Rob Riley Memorial MBA Scholarship honours the memory of Rob Riley by supporting and encouraging Indigenous students in business studies. Rob Riley was a prominent Aboriginal activist and community leader who tirelessly advocated for social justice for Aboriginal people in Australia. Over his life, Rob held many influential roles such as CEO of the WA Aboriginal Legal Service, Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Council and was a senior advisor to the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. He established Curtin's Centre for Aboriginal Studies and was awarded the Human Rights Medal in 1996. In making his application for this scholarship, Krista Coward MHPHDS Manager of Health Promot... -
Reforming Frankland 27 May 2022 With the vision for Frankland Centre to become a more rehabilitation focused facility in the near future, there has been a significant push to offer the patients more diverse and engaging programs to assist with their potential transition back into the community. The Exercise Physiology department has had a significant boost in the last few months as they were able to replace and upgrade the majority of the old exercise equipment within the Frankland Centre. This upgrade to the facilities, has allowed the two Exercise Physiologist’s (AEP), Stephen and Tony, to offer more clinical and rehabilitation focused exercise to the patients than they were able to provide previously. The main catalyst for this change is the purchase of a Pilates Reformer which has become an instant success and hit with the patients. The reformer was invented by Pilates founder Joseph Pilates. It is a bed-like... -
Embrace Makuru season 26 May 2022 Makuru is a polarising season; it has its passionate lovers and haters. But whichever camp you fall in, there is no stopping the chilly tide. Submission and embrace is what the doctor orders for the coming cozy months. Appropriately represented by the icey palette of blue, Makuru is the coldest and wettest season of the Nyoongar calendar. Driving glacial winds north from our Antarctic neighbour, dramatic Thor-esque sky shows and churning oceans, traditionally the Nyoongar people would retreat from the coast to take mia mia (shelter) inland by the kaarla (fire). The knock-on effect was a change in food-sources from seafood to the rich land-grazing animals such as kangaroo, which not only provided the protein sustenance for cold months but also the warmth of their skins to be used as bookas (blankets). Never to be wasted, even the kangaroo bones were carved into hunting tools such as gidji... -
DonateLife wins Best Campaign! 25 May 2022 We are very proud to announce that last weekend, the DonateLife Week 2021 awareness campaign won best Government-sponsored campaign (external site) at the annual Mumbrella CommsCon Awards! We were a top three finalist up against highly successful awareness campaigns — the COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign and the Still Six Lives Campaign. Reaching our target of 100,000 new registrations on the Australian Organ Donor Registry in 2021 and the amount of media coverage and activity around the country was a huge achievement, and we were thrilled to accept this award on behalf of the whole DonateLife Network. We are very excited about this award, it is great recognition for us as a team and motivation to go even bigger and better this year for DonateLife Week 2022! SAVE THE DATE: Sunday 24 July to Sunday 31 July. Resources will be updated over the coming weeks here DonateLife Week | DonateLi... -
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week 2022 24 May 2022 Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes people to experience reality in a different way. It affects one in 100 Australians and is a highly stigmatized, often misunderstood illness. At Graylands Hospital, many of our mental health staff are specialists in treating patients with schizophrenia including Dr Neil Das, a Lead Consultant in the Hospital Extended Care Service. Along with their efforts to pursue service improvements, staff in this program are engaged in doctoral research investigating patient and healthcare delivery issues to expand treatment of schizophrenia and other mental illness. Dr Das explains that the goal of staff at Graylands treating patients with schizophrenia is to ‘collaboratively work to reconnect patients with their loved ones’ in the hope that they can live a supported and meaningful life in their community. This week is World Schizophrenia Awar...
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18/10/2023