Health & Wellbeing

The MJD Foundation works in partnership with Aboriginal Australians, their families and communities living with Machado Joseph Disease, providing comprehensive supports and participating in research providing hope for the future.

NTAHC programs are aimed at preventing the transmission of blood borne viruses and have been developed to provide services, support and preventative initiatives with and for priority populations.

Northern Territory PHN is a not-for-profit organisation fully funded by the Australian Government to work closely with the primary health sector to develop better coordination, support the health workforce and introduce new health programs and services.

Our vision is that people in the Northern Territory enjoy their best health and wellbeing. We achieve this by building strong local partnerships and directing resources to create a well-managed, high-quality primary health care system for Territorians.

NT Stolen Generations was formally incorporated in 1998 to respond directly to the needs and concerns of members of the Stolen Generations, their families and communities through the following:

• Provide emotional support, social wellbeing services and referral service for Stolen Generations members and their families/descendants in the Top End
• Provide inter-generational activities on special occasions as part of a healing and identity strengthening process
• Regularly inform members regarding any National issues affecting the Stolen Generations
• Monitor and work towards implementing the 54 Recommendations from the Bringing Them Home Report

Confidential Sexual Health service offering testing and treatment to prevent stexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses. Located in urban and regional centres across the NT. Secondary needle and syringe program.

The full range of Psychological treatment and counselling services

ATAPS and Suicide Prevention Provider

Assessment Services, both civil and criminal

Contract Panel Provider Territory Families

EAP and Private Work

Purple House is an innovative Indigenous-owned and run health service operating from its base in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Now operating 18 remote clinics and a mobile dialysis unit called the Purple Truck, Purple House is  getting patients back home so that families and culture can remain strong.

What we do:

• Dialysis
• Purple Truck
• Social Support
• GP Clinic and Primary Health Care
• Return to Country
• Education
• Bush Balms Social Enterprise
• Patient Preceptors

Healthy Living utilises sport, art, music and dance to drive its messages resulting in fun, interactive and inclusive classroom activities. Role Models from sport, art, music, dance, business and health provide the expertise to support the delivery of Healthy Living. Students learn the essential elements to good health including nutrition, hygiene, substance misuse and physical activity. Learning outcomes range from the recommended intake of fruit and vegetables to the definition and causes of common preventable diseases. Students are encouraged to be creative and learn new skills in sport, the arts and healthy cooking while interacting with role models.

The purpose of the SYMBP is to support the development of strong male Aboriginal youth as they navigate their complex worlds and overcome a range of cultural, spiritual, social-emotional and educational obstacles in order to achieve authentic success in their lives. All programs involve explicit and practical cultural synthesis, are delivered in both local language/s and English and are typically facilitated using a combination of strategies including yarning circles, explicit instruction, classroom teacher co-facilitation, peer led participatory approaches and hands-on interactive activities.