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Newslines Radio: Closing the Gap in Mount Gambier part 2

08 November 2012
Safety and Wellbeing

We look at the ways Pangula Mannamurna Aboriginal Health Service is working to Close the Gap in Mount Gambier, South Australia.

Pangula Mannamurna Aboriginal Health Service is one of the major organisations working to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage in Mount Gambier, South Australia.

In this program, part two of a series on Mount Gambier, Newslines Radio talks to some of the Pangula Mannamurna staff about how their service is making a difference in the community.

Pangula Mannamurna offers a range of Australian Government funded initiatives to help deal with cultural or social and emotional issues. These include Bringing Them Home, a program to support Stolen Generations members and their families, men’s, women’s and youth programs, Indigenous Parenting Support Programs and a range of cultural activities funded through the Indigenous Culture Support Program.

Programs manager Sarah Bormann tells Newslines that addressing the cultural and social wellbeing of their patients is creating better physical health outcomes.

“So for us as an Aboriginal organisation and for Aboriginal people as a whole, we see health as not just the physical, we see the spiritual and the cultural,” Sarah said.

“When we work on social and emotional wellbeing, we can actually assist the person in their physical health as well.”

 

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The Australian Government is working to Close the Gap in Indigenous health outcomes in Mount Gambier by delivering range of health and wellbeing programs at Pangula Mannamurna, which are funded through the Department of Health and Ageing’s Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.