The NSW Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion

The philosophy and underlying principles of the NSW Collaborative Centre.

The NSW Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion is a joint initiative of NSW Health and the AH&MRC. The Centre is a major step forward in developing better practice health promotion approaches to improve Aboriginal health in NSW. The philosophy of the NSW Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion (CCAHP) is to improve the effectiveness of Aboriginal Health Promotion in NSW and throughout Australia. The Centre will ensure a strategic approach for Aboriginal health promotion as well as fostering leadership for Aboriginal health promotion at the NSW state level. The Centre will seek to achieve these goals through three key functions:

• Gathering, reviewing and disseminating case studies of good practice in Aboriginal health promotion via a clearinghouse/website function that could be used nationally.
• Providing training opportunities for the Aboriginal health promotion workforce to acquire necessary skills and knowledge in health promotion.
• Increasing the skills of Aboriginal health personnel within local Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and other local Aboriginal community organisations for effective health promotion planning and implementation resourced by the NSW Aboriginal health promotion grants scheme.

The Centre is located within the AH&MRC building in Level 3, 66 Wentworth Avenue, Surry Hills, NSW 2010.

click here to view The Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion web site