The Goulburn community has a new Aboriginal Health Centre to support reconciliation, healing, health, and wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Centre is part of the final phase of works for the $165 million Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment which has delivered a fit-for-purpose facility to support high-quality healthcare for the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Centre provides a culturally safe space for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and includes a waiting area, accessible bathroom, kitchen with breakfast bar for cooking demonstrations, consultation rooms, and a flexible activity space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also features a new outdoor area landscaped with native plants, comprising a yarning circle for community members to gather, along with a play area for child and family programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additional works were made possible through a successful $225,000 grant from NSW Health as part of the Aboriginal Health Minor Capital Works Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Centre was officially opened on Monday 1 July where Local Ngunnawal Elder Jennie Gordon gave a Welcome to Country and conducted a flag-raising ceremony alongside Inland Network Aboriginal Health Manager Marion Knight and Goulburn Base Hospital Site Managern Kylie Strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty David Harris said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis new Centre is a fantastic, purpose-built space for the Goulburn Aboriginal Health team to provide a range of free services for the community, including community liaison, health promotion and disease prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is part of the NSW Government commitment to closing the gap and improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people in a culturally safe and appropriate way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Goulburn community has a new Aboriginal Health Centre to support reconciliation, healing, health, and wellbeing. The Centre is part of the final phase of works for the $165 million Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment which has delivered a fit-for-purpose facility to support high-quality healthcare for the region. The Centre provides a culturally safe … Continue reading “New Goulburn Aboriginal Health Centre opens to support reconciliation and wellbeing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27684,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions\/27684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}