Aboriginal Youth Sexual Health and Didgeridoo Project
Greater Southern Area Health Service
This project was entered in the 2007 NSW Health Awards, Making Prevention Everybody's Business category.
Contact: Donna Lennon
Abstract
This unique Aboriginal youth sexual health didgeridoo and craft project developed because the Aboriginal community of Goulburn identified a need to educate and promote important health issues impacting on young Aboriginal men and women within their community. Areas addressed included: drug and alcohol harm minimization; safe sexual health practices as well as promote other important health matters.
Other community youth programs had been run, but failed to attract Aboriginal participants. The Aboriginal Sexual Health and HIVAIDS worker implemented a program combining Aboriginal culture and health education. This mode of delivery appealed to Aboriginal youth who regularly attended the program. Youths established networks with health workers, developed skills and strategies that assisted them in accessing health services; additionally they connected and/or reconnected with their Aboriginal culture through art, craft and music.
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Aboriginal Youth Sexual Health and Didgeridoo Project (32KB)
Aboriginal Youth Sexual Health and Didgeridoo Project (32KB)
