{"id":1048,"date":"2017-02-15T15:31:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2017-02-15T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T05:01:53","slug":"building-relationships-in-the-tiwi-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/2017\/02\/15\/building-relationships-in-the-tiwi-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Building relationships in the Tiwi Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1047\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/files\/2017\/01\/Tiwi-Islands-Visit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1047\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1047\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/files\/2017\/01\/Tiwi-Islands-Visit-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Tim Carey, Aboriginal Health Practitioner Co-ordinator, Iris Raye and Tanja Hirvonen at Milikapiti Health Clinic on Melville Island\" width=\"200\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/01\/Tiwi-Islands-Visit-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/01\/Tiwi-Islands-Visit-768x714.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/01\/Tiwi-Islands-Visit.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Tim Carey, Aboriginal Health Practitioner Co-ordinator, Iris Raye and Tanja Hirvonen at Milikapiti Health Clinic on Melville Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Centre for Remote Health\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/tim.carey\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Tim Carey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/tanja.hirvonen\" target=\"_blank\">Tanja Hirvonen<\/a> visited Tiwi Islands in December 2016 to meet with Aboriginal Health Practitioners and team leaders to discuss mental health\/wellbeing and self\u2013care learning needs.<\/p>\n<p>This forms part of research about whether the development of training for Aboriginal health Practitioners (AHP) is needed, to enhance the good work they are currently performing.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions confirmed that future training would provide significant benefits for the AHP workforce, in particular the remote AHP workforce.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crh.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Remote Health<\/a> is very interested in upskilling AHPS\u2019s in Mental health and self-care as it is felt that this will also have great benefits in retaining this cohort and their longevity in Aboriginal Primary Heath care.<\/p>\n<p>This most recent trip was very encouraging and it is hoped that this is the beginning of enhancing relationships with the North of Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre for Remote Health\u2019s Professor Tim Carey and Tanja Hirvonen visited Tiwi Islands in December 2016 to meet with Aboriginal Health Practitioners and team leaders to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-for-remote-health"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}