ICARE - It’s time to flourish
It’s time to flourish: Co-designed perinatal and early years care, self-determined by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, Resulting in policy and practice transformation and Exceptional Service (ICARE)
Supporting Aboriginal women, men and families
We believe that healthy mothers supported by Elders’ wisdom combined with culturally safe services optimises infant and child outcomes. This includes developing resources which promote Aboriginal voices and detail lived experience.
Protecting cultural heritage: Ngangk Waangening: Mothers’ Stories was published in 2021 creating an important cultural legacy for current and future Aboriginal families. Twelve Elder and Senior women’s birth stories are featured together with carefully crafted learning opportunities which direct health professional’s knowledge and awareness of Aboriginal cultural birthing practices with the aim of promoting culturally safe birth experiences for all Aboriginal women.
Linking mental health and child development outcomes: Our deep examination of the causal associations between mental health and child development outcomes is shaping when and how to address Aboriginal parent’s mental health problems prior to birth and developmental outcomes during the early years.
Creating a more equitable and culturally safe maternity care system: We have developed models of care and clinical ‘tools’ which Aboriginal women feel confident and safe using, reducing fragmentation and facilitating better communication between Aboriginal women, their families and communities and health service providers.
Ngangk Yira works closely with the WA government, contributing high level expertise to projects and initiatives which seek to ensure Aboriginal women have access to culturally safe maternity care.
Core research projects
Baby Coming You Ready?
We know supporting young people, parents and families optimises personal and community resilience, self-determination and nurtures future community leaders.
Replanting the Birthing Trees
This is an Aboriginal-led project which aims to transform compounding cycles of intergenerational trauma and harm to positively reinforcing cycles of intergenerational nurturing and recovery for First Nations parents and babies during the first 2000 days.
Other key research projects
Mums & Bubs Deadly Diets: Funded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) . The University of Queensland and Murdoch University. For more information, contact Janinne Gliddon.
New insights for reducing Aboriginal stillbirth: Funded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Murdoch University and Curtin University. For more information, contact Professor Rhonda Marriott.
FEALING Program: Funded by Ian Potter Foundation. For more information, contact Professor Rhonda Marriott.
Katitjin Mindamarra: Aboriginal Perinatal Navigator/ Birth Navigator Research Project. For more information, contact Janinne Gliddon.
Key researchers
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