Day One
Tuesday 30th March, 2010

8.00:
REGISTRATION COFFEE & NETWORKING
8.20:
WELCOME TO COUNTRY
8.30:
WELCOME REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
Lenore Dembski,
Paperbark Woman
FRAMEWORKS FOR CLOSING THE GAP
8.40:
Unified approach to implementing the national Partnership

  • Providing the necessary leadership, coordination and accountability needed to improve the social determinants
  • Reporting on performance - Results on the ground
  • Meeting the needs of remote communities and balancing with realism
  • What are the lessons learnt from the case studies
Brian Gleeson,
Australian Government Co-ordinator General,
Remote Indigenous Services
9.20:
COAG's seven Building Blocks: The National Indigenous Reform Agreement (NIRA)

  • National Partnerships
  • The Building Blocks framework
  • Target setting within a policy context
Darren Benham,
Senior Policy Advisor, Indigenous Health,
FaHCSIA
10.00:
Linking health policy to service delivery to improve life expectancy

  • The SA strategic implementation plan to improve Aboriginal healthy life expectancy
  • Reporting & monitoring progress
  • Identifying key strategic areas of service delivery and governance
  • Government accountability
  • Measuring progress
April Lawrie Smith,
Executive Director, Aboriginal Health Division Department of Health,
SA
10.40:
MORNING TEA & NETWORKING
11.10:
Health system reform to bridge the gap in Indigenous health

  • Ensuring the health services can bridge the gap in health standards
  • A holistic life style approach that builds sustainable change and embeds system reform
  • Health funding and governance
Ken Wyatt,
Director Aboriginal Health, Office of Aboriginal Health,
WA
11.40: DEBATE:
The reform agenda: Assessing the opportunities

  • Looking at the three health reform reports
  • The COAG reform agenda
  • Ensuring that Indigenous health stays on the reform agenda
COMMUNITY BASED PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
12.20:
Improving maternal and child health

  • Accessible care
  • Culturally appropriate models of care
  • Nurturing and supporting families
Pat Brodie,
Professor of Midwifery,
University Technology Sydney & Sydney South West Area Health Service
Lowana Fox,
Aboriginal Health Worker & Undergraduate Medical Student
1.00:
LUNCH
2.10:
Multi disciplinary team approach for chronic care

  • Bugl Booyay: Good Breathing Respiratory Program
  • The issues of respiratory disabilities and disease
  • Screening, identifying and diagnosing affected clients and educating them about specific evidence-based care through various clinic team members
Sue Wilson,
Health Worker Dharah Gibinj Aboriginal Medical Service
2.50:
Stopping the ear health cycle to enable learning and development

  • Prevalence of middle ear disease
  • The environmental factors that lead to chronic ear infections and hearing loss
  • The effect hearing loss has on self esteem, learning and development
  • Multi disciplinary teams working in communities
Matthew Brown,
Director, Deadly Ears, Department of Health,
QLD
3.30:
AFTERNOON TEA & NETWORKING
HOUSING FOR BETTER HEALTH
4.00:
Addressing housing needs to provide strong foundations for health

  • Supporting individuals coming out of prison
  • Issues of overcrowding
  • What we need: social housing policy and provision that meet the challenges and need
Cate Jones,
Aboriginal Homelessness and Housing Support Branch,
Shelter SA
4.40:
The role of hostels in supporting a community's housing & accommodation needs

  • Working with community controlled hostels
  • Initiatives and programs which support community need
  • Supporting homeless individuals
  • The Indigenous Youth Mobility Program (IYMP)
  • providing accommodation and beds for outpatients
Keith Clarke,
General Manager,
Aboriginal Hostels Limited
5.20:
CLOSING REMARKS FROM CHAIR
5.30:
CLOSE OF DAY ONE
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