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  Jalngangurru Healing: Summary evaluation report of the Traditional Healing Practices Pilot

  Gillian Kennedy

  This report details findings from a traditional healing practices pilot, Jalngangurru Healing, which was trialled as a service model for the towns of Derby and Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley of Western Australia during August 2022 to October 2023. Under the auspices of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre (KALACC), Yiriman Women was funded by the Western Australian Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA) in 2018 to establish a Traditional Healing Practices Pilot (THPP). The THPP was one of 45 activities funded across nine communities under the Kimberley Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Trial (KASPT), which began in 2016. The Kimberley was one of 12 regions across Australia that was chosen to participate in the National Suicide Prevention Trial, a systems-based approach to suicide prevention. Jalngangurru Healing is now a project directly under the management of KALACC.

  This summary report presents key findings from a Developmental Evaluation of the service. A literature review will be published as an accompanying report. Requests to access the full final evaluation report can be made through KALACC.

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  Feed the Little Children evaluative research report: Somebody cares

  Anne Poelina, Vennessa Poelina, Ian Perdrisat, Sandra Wooltorton, and John Guenther

  The purpose of the report is to investigate the social, cultural and health impacts on Broome children and families who are supported through Feed the Little Children Inc. (FTLC) bi-weekly food relief program, and to try to determine what the optimum level of support should be. Researchers have taken an Indigenist research approach, which means that Aboriginal ways, values and goals support research implementation. The research framework focused on the lived experience of the FTLC users and data was collected via conversations with FTLC users’ aunties, grandparents, and long-term Broome residents. The report concludes that Broome children would benefit from a community focus grounded in cultural security for their food provision.

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  Really proper dangerous one: Aboriginal responses to the first wave of COVID-19 in the Kimberley

  Kathryn Thorburn, Kate Golson, Catherine Ridley, Rosanna Angus, and Melissa Marshall

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  Martuwarra Country: A historical perspective (1838-present)

  Martuwarra RiverOfLife, Magalie McDuffie, and Anne Poelina

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  A conservation and management plan for the National Heritage listed Fitzroy River Catchment Estate (No. 1)

  Martuwarra RiverOfLife, Anne Poelina, Jason Alexandra, and Nadeem Samnakay

  The Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (Martuwarra Council) has prepared this document to engage widely and to articulate its ambitions and obligations to First Law, customary law and their guardianship authority and fiduciary duty to protect the Martuwarra’s natural and cultural heritage. This document outlines a strategic approach to Heritage Conservation and Management Planning, communicating to a wide audience, the planning principles, key initiatives, and aspirations of the Martuwarra Traditional Owners to protect their culture, identity and deep connection to living waters and land. Finer granularity of action items required to give effect to this Conservation and Management Plan for the National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River Catchment Estate are outlined in section 7 and which will be more fully explored by the Martuwarra Council in the coming months and years.

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  Power usage in the Bidyadanga community and its relationship to community health and well-being. Project report.

  Anna Dwyer and Tanya Vernes