health
promotions
The Deadly Choices health promotion campaign is a strength-based approach aiming to prevent chronic diseases for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Deadly Choices encompasses multi-media advertising, free educational programs, and community events, both sporting and cultural, to provide every individual, young and old, an overriding sense of belonging and ownership of their own destiny. Deadly Choices has a particular focus on young people, highlighting the importance of good food, exercise, education, plus maintaining regular health checks.
Alignment with the National Curriculum is a hallmark of the Deadly Choices Healthy Lifestyle Education Programs delivered in schools at no cost. This includes innovative and readily accessible resources into both primary and secondary school settings, covering off all the important aspects relevant to the formative years of future generations.
Our Health Promotions team also delivers the Sport & Recreation Program, a program that creates sports and rec opportunities for young people, primarily after hours and over school holidays.
Over the last several years, Mulungu has successfully facilitated after-hours activities at no cost to youth participants, particularly Basketball and touch football activities, which utilise the Mareeba Sports Hall and the local parks and football facilities.
Mulungu continues to offer these much-needed physical activity programs within the Mareeba Community. The benefits of this program to the community include the delivery of physical activity opportunities in a way that meets community-identified needs to promote and increase physical activity participation and to reduce and prevent youth offending and anti-social behaviours, which is a significant community concern.
If you have any questions about the education programs, feel free to contact your local Deadly Choices team or send an email to [email protected]
elder care
support
Our Elder Care Support Connector can arrange to come and meet you – at your home or wherever you feel safe and comfortable – and with your family or carer too if you prefer – and there’s no cost to you or your family. If you need transport, please don’t hesitate to ask.
When you meet the Elder Care Support Connector – you can talk to them about those things that would help make you feel more supported in your home – maybe some help with your cleaning, shopping, cooking, or some help with more personal care – it’s up to you.
Our Elder Care Support Connector will work to make sure you are connected to the aged care services and support you need – and if things change for you and you find you need some extra or different help, they will arrange that for you too – or if you’re not happy with the providers of the service the Elder Care Support Connector will help get things back on track.
Our Elder Care Support service now makes it easier for you to receive the aged care support and care you need. Contact us today at [email protected]
child & family
centre
The Children & Family Centre offers an integrated approach to service delivery, bringing together various services to form a unified and comprehensive system aimed at supporting families with young children.
Open to anyone with children aged 0 to 8, registration can be completed in person at the centre.
Services available include onsite GP consultations, allied health visits, maternal health support, and a men’s group, among others.
Join us today; we can’t wait to meet you. For further information, contact us at [email protected]
family care
service
The purpose of the Family Care Service is to support:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families across a range of contexts, Including early intervention, to keep children and young people safely at home with their families and in their communities
- At-risk and vulnerable families with early intervention to keep children from entering the statutory child protection system
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families with children and young people under the age of 18 years old (including newborns)
- Families with children that are subject to ongoing intervention by child saftey services-under Child Saftey Orders
We want to:
- Ensure that children remain with parents and caregivers and community to keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families together
- Strengthen families and family groups in a supportive cultural context that is holistic and empowering
- Assist families to make changes in the lives of their children, which will in turn strengthen our people and the communities in which they live
The Family Care Service will provide a strengths-based, culturally appropriate response to:
- Ensure holistic, integrated case management
- Leverage family support from multiple service providers
- Offer personal support and development, focusing on practical skills that address specific needs in the family
- Information advocacy and advice
- Parenting skills
- Mapping of kinship connections
- Budgeting and household management skills
- Provide access to direct clinical and/or therapeutic counselling
- Emotional support and healing practices within a cultural framework
- Valuing and supporting families as the primary place of nurturing for children
- Building strengths
For further information, contact us at [email protected]
connected
beginnings
Mareeba Connected Beginnings is a place-based project that works independently with community to help understand barriers that prevent families from connecting with services and to help them engage with early education and health care services. Connected Beginnings also works with community stakeholders to integrate and strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ access to early childhood education, maternal and child health, and family services to support children’s school readiness.
To help strengthen sustainable relationships between community and service providers, the Connected Beginnings team hold regular community pop-ups to provide children and families with an opportunity to engage with other children and services in a natural and safe environment outside the restrictions of walls and structures.
In addition to the popups, Mareeba Connected Beginnings participates in continuous community engagement with members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait community to identify what they would like to see happening for their children from conception to age 5 and to ensure that the community voices are being heard; these aspirations are visually displayed on the walls and screens of the Mareeba Connected Beginnings Hub.
All members of the community are welcomed into the Hub to discuss and explore opportunities to align and collaborate with a clear purpose, the vision for a culturally healthy and safe community for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to thrive in their early years.
Contact: [email protected]
sports & rec
Mulungu delivers the Mareeba Sport & Recreation Program, a program that creates sports and rec opportunities for young people, primarily after hours and over school holidays.
Over the last several years, Mulungu has successfully facilitated after-hours activities at no cost to youth participants, particularly Basketball and touch football activities, which utilise the Mareeba Sports Hall and the local parks and football facilities.
Mulungu continues to offer these much-needed physical activity programs within the Mareeba Community. The benefits of this program to the community include the delivery of physical activity opportunities in a way that meets community-identified needs to promote and increase physical activity participation and to reduce and prevent youth offending and anti-social behaviours, which is a significant community concern.
To learn more about our program contact us at [email protected]
sewb
step care
Mulungu Aboriginal Health Service see’s the community to have the right to self- determination through a community controlled health service.
To aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples this is a holistic concept which results from a network of relationships between:
- Individuals
- Family, kin
- Community
- Mulungu Health Service
- External services
We recognise the importance of connection to land, culture, spiritually and ancestry and how these affect the individual through Social and Emotional wellbeing.
The SEWB program aims to encourage people to overcome obstacles in their family, community, work and recreation. Our SEWB team can assist you with referrals, individual or family/ group sessions.
For more information on this program please contact: [email protected]
wannabe
This initiative prioritises supporting families in providing children with a solid foundation for life by enhancing early childhood development, care, education, and school preparedness.
The aims of the Wannabe program encompass facilitating children’s school entry and enhancing attendance rates, offering comprehensive case management for families with children disengaged from education in the long term, empowering parents with skills and capacity to support their children’s educational involvement effectively, advancing literacy and numeracy skills, fostering better communication among educational stakeholders, including providers, children, and parents, and facilitating smooth transitions to higher education and employment.
For more information please contact: [email protected]
