"Working towards Well Being"

Nunkuwarrin Yunti auspices the People Development Unit which includes 2 main programs:

• Workforce Support Unit
• Registered Training Organisation
  

The purpose of the People Development Unit is to provide education, training and support to Social & Emotional Well Being Health Workers.

'Health does not just mean the physical well being of the individual but refers to the social, emotional and cultural well being of the whole community. This is a whole of life view and includes the cyclical concept of life-death-life.' (NACCHO)

Based at Nunkuwarrin Yunti, the PDU’s objectives are:

• Provide support to the Bringing Them Home, Link Up and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing workforce
• Develop and deliver education and training in
• Mental health
  
• Social and emotional well being
  
• Primary health care (community care)
• Develop and promote inter-sectoral linkages and operate as a mental and primary health, and social and emotional well being resource centre for the Aboriginal community
• Develop and maintain mental and primary health, and social and emotional well being information systems
• Ongoing evaluation of the Unit's activities.

Activities include:

• Delivery of the following training:
• Diploma of Narrative Approaches for Aboriginal People (Counselling, Group and Community Work)
• Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health (Community Care)
• Mental Health for Workers in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
• Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid
  
• Information dissemination
• Intersectoral collaboration
• Policy input

For more information please contact:

Ross Jackomos - Program Manager, People Development Unit
Nicole Bycroft – Administration Officer, People Development Unit

RTO
Gill Harrison - Training Co-ordinator
Derick Burns - Vocational Trainer & Assessor Cert IV

Workforce Support Unit
Sitiveni Rogoimuri – Project Officer
Christopher Howland – Project Officer

Phone: 08 8406 1600
Fax: 08 8227 0239
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