Taingiwilta Pirku Kawantila Project: Strong Community in the North

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience a complex array of system challenges to achieving and maintaining wellbeing.

Despite widespread understanding of the role that housing, transport, education, and social and health services have in supporting the health of populations, it has not been established how best to intervene on the social determinants of Indigenous health.

We hypothesise that supporting practitioners within and connecting action across complex health and social service settings will positively impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ social and emotional wellbeing.

This 5-year project will engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and service providers in northern Adelaide to co-design, implement and evaluate a social determinants of Indigenous health service delivery model via four stages:

1. Co-design the social determinants of Indigenous health service delivery model;
2. Implement the model within settings of the northern Adelaide metropolitan service catchment;
3. Evaluate the implementation of the model including barriers and enablers; and
4. Evaluate the impact of the model across social and emotional wellbeing indicators.

The findings will generate practice-based evidence across diverse community and health care settings and will enable the delivery of coordinated and culturally meaningful health and social services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients.

This project is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council