Healing Foundation- Cultural Safety Position Statement

Running head: CULTURAL SAFETY
Cultural Safety
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CULTURAL SAFETY
Healing Foundation- Cultural Safety Position Statement
Organisation Background
Danila Dilba has begun their journey from year 1970 in order to address the fact of
the Aboriginal health care service. The organisation primarily focused on the health care
providence to the Aboriginal people. The organisation grew and held meetings with the
government for the changing in the policies of health care. They focused on the health care
providence to the Aboriginal people and thus the needs of the policy improvement and other
facts addressed by them. The organisation developed their health service facilities in the year
1991. Danila Dilba Biluru Butji Binnilutlum was the name of the organisation which was
given to them by the local Larrakia traditional custodians of Darwin province. Their services
were friendly and comfortable and they provide holistic care to the community people.
According to the organisation data they have 150 staffs providing care to 13,400 clients in the
year 2016-2017 (Ddhs.org.au, 2019).
The strategic direction of the organistaion resides the factor of identifying the factors
of the health issues including the mental trauma and the cultural discriminations. According
to that assessment the imbalance and the health issues would be addressed along with the
factor of the education to the people of the community. The process would be done with the
help of the public gathering of people in a place and discussing the problems. Healing
foundation also defines the healing, help the Aboriginal people to understand the effects of
colonisation, discuss their needs, informing them about the healing work and others. The
healing program also uses the help of the forum participants in order to find the treatment
needs of the regional Australian people. The organisation helped the forum participants of the
Alice Springs and the Torres Strait Islanders.

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CULTURAL SAFETY
The cultural safety of the target people is the primary focus of our organisation. In
order to address this factor our organisation promotes the problem of the community in terms
of the cultural safety and provides support from the government and other organisations
which provide financial and other supports to the Aboriginal people. The aim of the
organisation is to heal the trauma and the problems of the community by means of providing
education and the help in the process of the employment and other supports that helps them in
competent to the society. This factor provides the safety in the cultural way as well. The
promotion of the culturally safe health care for the community people is the primary aim of
our community.
Our position:
 Integrating services at each clinic.
 Providing services where our clients need them close to home.
 Offering services across the lifetime of each of our clients.
 Working in partnership with other organisations, researchers and community
members.
 Working alongside the mainstream health sector.
 Respect, trust, honesty, integrity, fairness, transparency, accountability, high
professional standards, ethics and quality are the factors considered in terms of
providing health care to the Aboriginal people.
 Recognise, respect and value the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples, cultures and languages.
 Deliver effective, culturally appropriate services through a highly skilled, culturally
competent and capable workforce.
 Take ownership of our decisions and actions.