Strong Father Strong Family Program: Addressing Social Determinants in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

This article discusses the Strong Father Strong Family program, a social program developed by the Australian government to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and families. It explores how the program addresses social determinants such as education, healthcare services, and cultural activities, and highlights the importance of incorporating culture into health promotion programs. The program aims to improve the quality of life and promote healthy lifestyles in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Assessment 3

Table of Contents
Outline of the Program...........................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................3
Social determinants which is addressing by, Strong father strong family programme..........3
Importance of addressing each of these
determinants in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals/communities..................4
3 ways culture and cultural identity are supported in this
program, why the incorporating culture into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health Promotion Programs is important..............................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................8
Outline of the Program

INTRODUCTION
Strong father strong family (SFSF) is the social programme develop by Australian
government to help the Aboriginal and Torres strait parents, fathers and the adult male to
understand their role and to play their responsibility. In the, children's development, family
management and more importantly in care of pregnant lady of the family. It also guide the
younger s of family to respect adult. The objective of this report is to understand the role of this
programme in health and social awareness. (Bateson, K. 2017) To understand the importance of
public health promotional activities, that how it helps to understand the advantage and
disadvantage of proper and improper maintenance of social determinants of health.
Social determinants which is addressing by, Strong father strong family programme.
SFSF is addressing the maintenance of some social, economical, health factors in order
to develop the systematic improvement of quality of life in Aboriginal and Torres strait. The
social determinants are the different environmental factors which effects the health, functioning
and quality of life, outcome and risk in the life. In the SFSF programme social determinants are
education, health care management, economical stability, culture.
Education: Education is the important determinant which highly effects the social and
personal life individuals. Because it is the best source of information and knowledge which helps
the people to live their life in right way. (Lindsay, A.C. 2018) It helps to crate awareness about
health, helps in the to get employment related to particular filed, it gives the knowledge of every
aspects of life.
Health care services: In every society of peoples there should be availability of health
care services which helps in the health related emergency.
Economical stability: It is a important factor of quality of life, it involves the money,
property etc. so that is necessary to earn some money to fulfil the family basic demand.

Importance of addressing each of these
determinants in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals/communities.
SFSF addressing very important social and economical determinant in that program, that
determinant are education, health care services, community culture development, Males
personality development. Its main objective is to improve all theses determinant affectivity in the
life of Torres strait islander family. So the individual of these family's help each other and
understand their responsibility to make their family life good and happy.
SFSF organisation involves the multiple activities for family in order to improve the their
social and economical aspects of life. (Lindt, S.F. 2017) Such as education workshops, health
promotions and services, community events and cultural activities, special workshops to give the
knowledge about the responsibility of men's of family. The main focus of that program is to
make Aboriginal community to live healthy life. It provide the guidelines to the men's, related to
their importance in the children's development, and in the physical, social culture development in
their children's life.
Types of event and activities involved in this program.
 Education work shops: It involves the giving the knowledge to the family, related to
parent responsibility, children's development, knowledge of effects of alcohol and drugs
consumption, aggression and relationship.

 health care services: Availability of every kind of medication and knowledge of that,
doctors, treatment services.
 Health promotional activities: Classes of cooking, homes management classes, home
science classes, sports classes, yoga classes, nutrition knowledge,
 men's development sessions
 Cultural activities: It involves the different cultural activities of multiple religion.
 Community events: Fun campus, attractive activities.
3 ways culture and cultural identity are supported in this
program, why the incorporating culture into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health Promotion Programs is important.
SFSF programme supported three way culture and culture identity in it such as individualism,
collectivism, specificity, (Reardon, S.F. 2016) and all the cultural identity.
Three way culture

It divided the group of fathers, mothers and children's to differentiate their responsibility
and activities. Then farther involve the gathering of society for common and cultural knowledge
and fun activities. Then the situation solving knowledge to identify the specific problem and
solve it. This program main focus on men inclusive, care of antenatal, children's development.
That means in this program means comes under first way of culture (individualism) then mother
comes under (collectivisms), (Reardon, S.F. 2019) the third way children's are special focus
point of that programme. It is important to give the knowledge of individual responsibility of
different human sex and then the collective responsibility of family and then the specific focus to
the children's development who will be the future of society.
Men responsibility- Responsibility of men is to take care of pregnant lady, provide all
the important things to their family. Then they should be knowledgeable so that they can help
their children's to develop their maturity in physical, social,health prospective. Female of the
family can also play the same role of father but it will be more convenient if the responsibility of
them are divided in to the different group. Strong farther strong family program (SFSF) concept
is that if the father is more aware about the every aspect of life so that he can help his family to
live healthy and effective lifestyle. So this program is providing all the important social
economical knowledge and activities to the father and their family. In order to get improvement.
Mothers responsibility and their care during pregnancy: Mother responsibility is to
take care of her family by preparing nutritional food for her family. (Reilly, L. 2018) They have
to maintain home hygiene. To take care of herself during pregnancy. Men have to take care of
his waif at the time of pregnancy to prevent miscarriage, malnutrition and etc.
Children's development: Step by step children's development is the responsibility of
father mother than giving the social and moral knowledge. Guide each other to respect adults
father, grandfather, mother grandmother.
Culture identity
SFSF programming is giving help to the Aboriginal and Torres strait family's to get
aware about the cultural identity. It helps to differentiate the responsibility's, capability, and
respect each other, So that's way cultural identity concept is involved in that programme.
(Young, M.D. 2019)In that programme most important culture identity is sex, age, mental
physical ability, economical stability. Economical stability is earning, properties (shelter to live)

employment, self businesses so that the family can live good life by fulfilling every needs. So
SFSF is also providing the knowledge of earning.
CONCLUSION
From above study it has been concluded that the awareness of socio-economical factor is
very importance to live healthy and happy life. Adult of family are responsible for the effective
and healthy development of children's and most importantly father.

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