aboriginal co-operative - dear community members, june-july … · 2017-08-01 · naidoc week: all...

Dear Community Members,

Medical Clinic: Both of our Doctors continue to

be very busy particularly now the very cold weather

has set in! We have welcomed Jenny, Maternal Child

Health Nurse two mornings a month to the clinic

now. Our other Allied Health Service Providers in-

clude Gail, our Diabetic Educator and Andrew, our

Podiatrist. We also have Bluey and Veronica a day a

week as our Generalist Counsellors.

Farewell: Sadly for us Bluey is retiring at the end

of June- we would like to say a very big thank you to

him for his work here at Goolum over the last cou-

ple of years and we will truly miss him. We’d also

like to wish both he and his wife Judy all the best as

they enjoy retirement in Mildura.

Naidoc Week: All community members are invit-

ed to the following Naidoc celebrations-

Community celebration and launch of the Making

Tracks program- a VACCHO funded healthy lifestyle

program on Monday 3rd July. (There is more infor-

mation in this edition.) This day will be fun for the

kids, give away prizes and lunch and is for our com-

munity members only.

Saturday Night gathering/cabaret- there will be more

information coming out about this event which will

be held in Horsham this year.

There will be Naidoc activities held within playgroup

and some of the kindergartens we visit as well as an

Elders Luncheon.

A flyer will be sent out to all community members

as well as activities/events posted up on our Face-

book page about Naidoc Week celebrations

Awards: We would all like to congratulate Pam on

receiving the Foster Carer Award as part of the

2017 Centre for Participation Awards- well de-

served Pam! I’d like to also acknowledge that

our Deadly Bike program was a finalist in the

Celebrating Diversity Award- the team who

work hard on this program with some of our

youth certainly deserve to be recognized.

Men’s Group: We are hoping to commence a

monthly ‘men’s outing’. Any ideas and interest

can be directed to Dean or Jezza.

Let’s Get Active: Please don’t forget that

Barney is still running this challenge- all com-

munity members are welcome to join- please

contact Barney to discuss further. We would

love to see better use of our gymnasium as well

- or if you have any activities that you would

like to be part of please come and chat to us as

we are open to ideas and would love to sup-

port anyone who is trying to become more ac-

tive.

Early Years: There have been some changes

to our playgroup and we have more focused

planned activities running– I’d encourage any-

one who has or cares for children in this age

group to contact Robyn or Sars and come along

to join in.

I’d also like to thank the staff who were in-

volved in the recent Reconciliation Week cele-

brations.

Just a reminder to all community members that

we love to hear your ideas and feedback so

please contact us at any time to discuss.

Until next time,

Wally

CEO

JUNE-JULY 2017

CEO CORNER

Dear Community Members,

COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

Artwork by Tanisha Lovett


Board Repor t

Hi Community

I t ’ s that t ime aga in for an update and some of the th ings that board have been

doing are as fo l lows: Rev iewed the strateg ic p lan; endorsed pol ic ies and some

Directors a ttended the VACCHO members meet ing at Creswick.

Koor i Fami ly Pol ice Protocols Launch: Congratu lat ions to everyone involved .

Chairman spoke at l aunch of the Koori Pol ice Fami ly Violence Protocols Aunty H

a lso provided the Welcome to Country

Housing update : P lans for the new bui lds are progress ing . The p lans current ly s i t

at Horsham Rura l C ity Counci l and we are just wai t ing to have them approved

Nat iona l Reconci l ia t ion Week (NRW): There were lots of d i f ferent organi sat ions

doing morning teas and such throughout NRW. I hope that a l l non -Indigenous

people who attended the var ious events got to l i s ten and share stor ies wi th the

communi ty that at tended and have a l i t t le more understand ing of the ATSI com-

munity and what s ign i f icant mi lestone dates l ike the 67 referendum mean to Ab-

or ig ina l people .

I do f ind i t very d i sappoint ing that not many community members get behind

theses events . There has been a s ign i f icant amount of work being done by Abo-

r ig ina l organisat ions , leaders and mainstream organisat ions with in Horsham and

the surrounding areas to help address the var ious i ssues that our community

face . We now have Reconci l ia t ion p lans with companies l ike Sk i l l invest and p lans

being developed at others l ike Horsham Rura l City Counc i l whom have an Abo-

r ig ina l Advisory committee as we l l . Th is i s a pretty s ign i f icant in i t se l f a s i t took

a few of us a long t ime to get a chance to meet and di scuss the Abor ig ina l com-

munit ies vo ice been heard at Counci l . From a cultura l her i tage point o f v iew

there a heaps of p lans to involve community through partnership wi th Bareng i

Gadj in Land Counci l , WCMA, GWM Water , and Parks Vic to name a few. As I

sa id a lot of very good th ings are being done but we need communi ty to get be-

hind them and support them.

I be l ieve there has been some misconcept ions about community members hav ing

to pay for Conf irmat ion o f Abor ig ina l i ty . Thi s i s untrue and Goolum wi l l not be

enforc ing such a pract ice in the future .

John Gorton

Chairperson

JUNE-JULY 2017

Deadly Dan Comes to the Wimmera!

Local Indigenous kids from Horsham Primary Schools bumped shoulders with Indigenous

Superhero – Deadly Dan, on Monday evening. Deadly Dan, the smokefree man, travels Aus-

tralia to rid local communities of the harmful effects of smoking and educate children on

the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

Goolum Goolum have partnered with VAHS (Victorian Aboriginal Health Service) to devel-

op an online comic book centred on Deadly Dan visiting the Wimmera River and empower-

ing children to live a healthier lifestyle. Susan Sheridan from VAHS Healthy Lifestyle team

said “Deadly Dan is a familiar site in the streets of Melbourne but we wanted him to visit

regional Victoria as well and spread the word on the harms of smoking”.

Dean O’loughlin, Goolum Goolum’s Health & Wellbeing Manager said he was very excited

to have Deadly Dan in town. “We have spent the whole day taking shots and setting scenes

for the forthcoming online comic book. Deadly Dan works very well in Melbourne as an ear-

ly intervention to engage kids in anti-smoking campaigns. Goolum will be launching its own

‘Smokefree’ character this year as part of NAIDOC celebrations in July”.

Goolum Goolum are developing an online interactive IT platform to engage community in

Goolum Healthy Lifestyle programs and connect with services. The online comic, ‘Deadly

Dan visits the Wimmera River’, will be just one of the highlights. “We had amazing success

with our ‘Take the pledge’ campaign in 2016 and we want to build on that this year” Dean

said.

Dean said that Goolum Goolum will continue to work with VAHS on upcoming projects if

they can. “It’s a fantastic partnership. VAHS are very good at promoting better health out-

comes”. “We are hoping Deadly Dan may be able to return in NAIDOC week to introduce

a new local character to assist us to spread the word for a healthier lifestyle for Indigenous

families”.


WHO’S WHO IN 2017?

Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Co-Operative—CEO Wally Coleman

Reception and Office Administration—Kayla & Michelle

Quality Assurance Officer—Julie

General Manager—Tony

CEO Personal Assistant—Toni

Accounts Manager—Amanda

Family and Community Services—Manager John Gorton

Delkaia Facilitator—Michelle

Childcare Co-ordinator—Robyn

Early Childhood—Sarah

Bringing Them Home Worker—Pam & Lissy (Wednesday)

Family Services—(Therapeutic Foster care ; Cultural Support Planner; Aboriginal Family Led Decision

Maker; Foster/Kinship Care Recruitment; Cradle to Kinder) - Charmain, Renee & Deanne

Koori Youth Justice/ Community Justice Worker—

Community Home Support Program (formerly HACC)

-Domestic Assistance & Planned Activity Group (PAG) - Kylie (Monday to Thursday)

-Property Maintenance Team—Farren, Kyle & Fab

Health and Wellbeing Programs—Manager Dean O’Loughlin

Tobacco Cessation and Healthy Lifestyle Worker —Jeremy

Tackling Indigenous Smoking Case Worker—Stevie

Education Coordinator—Bec

Let’s Get Active/Gym—Brian

‘Deadly Bikes’ Youth Program

Hamilton Street Medical Clinic—Practice Manager Jill Cooper

General Practitioners—Dr Tony O’Reilly (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and

Dr Garry Matthews (Tuesday to Thursday)

Men’s Aboriginal Health Worker—Brian

Women’s Aboriginal Health Worker—Carol

Practice Nurse—Robyn

Medical Reception—Janine

Family Planning/Sexual Health Nurse—Sharyn Wednesday)

Maternal & Child Health Nurse—Jenny visiting—see Calendar

Counsellors - Bluey and Veronica visiting—see Calendar

Diabetes Educator – Gail visiting —see Calendar

Podiatrist – Adam visiting—see Calendar

JUNE JULY

GGAC Newsletter sent out

3 Mabo Day

15 NAIDOC Community Meeting—Goolum

19 & 29 Dental check-ups

27 IBA visit

30 GGAC Board Meeting

2-9 NAIDOC Week

3 Trax Launch

15 Dental Check-ups


AUGUST SEPTEMBER


4 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Is-

lander Children’s Day



OCTOBER NOVEMBER



Date TBC GGAC Board Meeting

DECEMBER JANUARY 2018


1-2 Wimmera River Challenge

Goolum closure period TBC

Ready for Learning Day TBC

FEBRUARY 2018 MARCH 2018


JUNE-JULY 2017

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY


This year we saw multiple agencies get together to celebrate National Reconciliation Week. 2017 marked two significant mile-stones in Australia’s black history—50 years since the Referen-dum and 25 years since the Mabo decision.

Events were held throughout the week which included smoking ceremonies, dance and Welcome to Country at many events. Thank you to Wimmera PCP for coordinating the calendar for SkillInvest, FedUni, GWM Water, Horsham Rural City Council, Wimmera CMA, DHHS, WimmeraUniting Care, Horsham College and the Department of Education, Horsham Primary School, Cen-tre for Participation and of course Goolum Goolum!

Next stop now is NAIDOC week . A meeting for community members has been scheduled for Thursday 15 June in the Aunty Irene room from 10am. Transport will be available and we are looking for leaders to drive the open-ing for the week as well as the caba-ret. Goolum will lead these 2 events this year. P o w e r ed b y

JUNE-JULY 2017

2017 VOLUNTEERING AWARDS


The children involved with KOOKAS will be attending dental ap-

pointments with one of our staff at the Arapiles building at Wimmera

Health Care Group. Some may have already attended. Four students

will attend each session and will have transport and afternoon tea

provided. KOOKAS Kids going to the dentist will be collected from

school and dropped home afterwards.

Parents/guardians will be given a copy of their child’s dental examina-

tion report, and then call the dentist to arrange appointments for

any procedures, should they need them.

The next dates are:

Monday 19th June - 3:30pm

Thursday 29th June - 3:30pm

JUNE-JULY 2017


SARAH HARRISON &

ROBYN LAURICELLA

Monday and Wednesday 12 to 2pm. Lunch and

Transport provided.

I f you and your chi ld /ch i ldren want

to attend Black Cockies p laygroup please contact

Robyn or Sarah on 53816333.

JUNE-JULY 2017

MONDAYS & TUESDAYS 3.30pm -5.00pm (DURING SCHOOL TERMS)

Star t ing back on Monday 19 June 2017

Kids are picked up from Horsham schools & transported home after the event.

Kids will be provided with Healthy Food & Drinks

A qualified tutor is present during the sessions

Things that happen at Kookas include: Reading buddies & literacy & numeracy activities, Computer work

Physical activity including swimming

Arts & Craft

Kookas is for children enrolled in Primary school . If your child/children would like to become a member of the Kookas Homework Club please con-

tact Jeremy at GGAC on 5381 6333 for more information.

KOOKAS—Koor i K ids Af ter School

Te r m 2 S C H O O L H O L I DAY S J U N E J U LY

M o n / Tu e 1 2 - 1 3 J u n * M o n / Tu e 1 7 - 1 8 J u l y

1 t o 1 6 J u l y

( i n c l u s i v e )

M o n / Tu e 1 9 - 2 0 J u n M o n / Tu e 2 4 - 2 5 J u l y

M o n / Tu e 2 6 - 2 7 J u n M o n / Tu e 3 1 J u l - 1 A u g

M o n / Tu e 1 9 - 2 0 J u n

* Ye l l o w d a t e = N o Ko o ka s ( P U B L I C H O L I DAY )

*Activities may change throughout the term. Families will be contacted in advance


COMMUNITY MEETING

Thursday 15 June from 10am to 12pm

Aunty Irene Gather ing P lace

Community d iscuss ion about NAIDOC

JUNE-JULY 2017

Some of you may know or have heard that HACC has now transferred to the Common-

wealth government. This means it is no longer funded by the state and it is now funded

by the federal government. Some of the things that we have been working on include

changing documents, the way report, how we refer and policies. As such a lot of the

changes haven't affected direct service delivery.

Some things you need to know if you were a HACC client before July 1st 2016:

State funded HACC transitioned to commonwealth funded CHSP

Anyone over 50 who was a HACC client, before July 1st 2016, is now a CHSP client

Anyone under 50 who was a HACC client, before July 1st 2016, is now a VIC HACC

client

VIC HACC provide very little funding to Goolum, which means you may receive

some service but once the funding is gone you'll need to be referred to get the ser-

vice you need from another provider

New referral process is done through My Aged Care. You can do self-referral or

have someone do it for you e.g. Friend, family, health worker or doctor

Goolum no longer does the assessments, these are done by local council reps or

living at home assessment workers (LAHA) e.g. If you live in Horsham LAHA work-

ers are based at Wimmera Base Hospital and HRCC.

Currently we are still funded for property maintenance, domestic assistance or home

help, allied health and planned activity groups through CHSP and VIC HACC.

I f you would l ike more in format ion on the CHSP please contact John Gorton on 5381 6333.


Doctor’s Clinic is Monday to Thursday 9.00am to 5.00pm

A B O R I G I N A L &

T O R R E S S T R A I T

I S L A N D E R H E A LT H

C H E C K S

You will soon be receiving a letter from us

if you are due for your health check. Don’t

forget you can always ring to find out if you are due to have your check done

as well.

The health check is done every 9 months as per Medicare policy and you will receive a $25.00 Coles gift voucher on completion of appointment.

Aboriginal Health workers follow up care you require as a result of your

health check. Upon completion of any of these follow up visits you will re-

ceive a $10 voucher- there are a total of 5 follow up visits per year and they

can be done at the clinic or in your home. These follow up visits usually are

only 20 mins long and Health workers will contact you to arrange these vis-

its.

Just a reminder also for everyone to please call and let us know if you can-

not attend any of your appointments as we often have someone on the

waiting list who can fill this time if you are unable to attend. It is also appre-

ciated if people are on time for doctor’s appointments as if not, others have

to wait.

Health staff transport clients to and from health appointments (only for those who are unable to arrange any other transport) so if you do need transport to other appointments please call Medical Reception on 5381-6330. We do need at least 24 hours notice for any local transport and at least 5 days is there is a requirement to travel out of town for an appoint-ment.

JUNE-JULY 2017


Staf f Prof i le

Name: Michelle Cameron

Family: Husband Brock Cameron and 4 kids aged 17, 15, 11 and 2 years

Role at Goolum: Delkaia Aboriginal Best Start Facilitator

AFL team: Geelong

Favorite Food: Vegetables- yes seriously vegetables!

Favorite Drink: Coffee- lots of coffee!!

Worst habit: Pretending to stack the dishwasher wrong so my hus-band does it, and I get out of doing

dishes

Hobbies: Watching old TV shows with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson in them (Young ones and Bottom).

First impression of Goolum: Everyone is so welcoming, helpful and great to work with. I love being here.

Favorite saying:

A BIG SHOUT OUT to all those community members

and staff having a birthday in:

June and July !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

BIRTHDAYS

JUNE-JULY 2017

BOOKINGS

For bookings please contact reception in the

Medical Centre on 5381 6330

A health Assessment is required for all people

wanting to use the gym and for people that are using

the gym Health checks are required to keep using it. For Aboriginal Clients a $25.00 Gift

voucher for Coles is given on completion of your health assessment. Under 18’s must be

supervised by an adult or trainer.

Monday: Gym Open 10:00am – 6:00pm (Trainer available)

Tuesday: Gym Open 9:00am – 5:00pm

Wednesday: Gym Open 10:00am – 6:00pm (Trainer available)

Thursday: Gym Open 9:00am – 6:00pm

Friday: Gym Open 9:00am – 4:00pm

aboriginal co-operative - dear community members, june-july … · 2017-08-01 · naidoc week: all...

Documents