Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future
Service providers
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future (HPNF) is an Aboriginal-led research project.
The project aims to ensure parents receive skilled, sensitive, trauma-integrated care, so that pregnancy and birth are a time of healing that makes families stronger.
The Latrobe Valley region is the first site to pilot the HPNF healing model of care.
Do you care for Aboriginal families during pregnancy or birth?
The HPNF project team would like to hear from you!
We are conducting interviews before and after we implement the HPNF project to understand service providers’ experiences of providing care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.
We are enrolling service providers in pre-implementation interviews now! Interviews can be scheduled throughout June – July 2023.
Why should I participate?
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- Contribute to promoting healthy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.
- Contribute to closing the gap in health outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians.
- Enrich your skills in working with Aboriginal families, ensuring that perinatal care is trauma-informed and safe.
- Help us ensure that HPNF is relevant, useful and rewarding for you
Am I eligible?
You can participate in an interview if you work in the Latrobe Valley Region and:
- Are 18yrs + and
- Provide care to Aboriginal parents in the perinatal period
or
- Are in a management role related to perinatal care.
What’s involved?
Interviews will run for up to 1 hour, and can be in person interviews or via phone or Zoom.
For more information or to register for an interview, please follow the link.
Trauma-informed Training
The HPNF culturally safe, trauma-informed training program will be available in late 2023 for any service provider caring for Aboriginal parents in the perinatal period in the Latrobe Valley area, including, but not limited to:
- Midwives
- Nurses
- Obstetricians
- GPs
- Administrative and reception staff
- Lactation consultants
- Allied health practitioners, e.g., social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, physiological therapist etc
- Management staff
- Paediatricians
- Ultrasonographers
Be part of a great opportunity to develop an exemplary site for trauma-informed care which will be used as a model for other services across Australia.
What does the HPNF training involve?
Introductory:
A self-directed online introduction to complex trauma and trauma-informed care.
Delivery: self-paced online
Intermediate:
provides you with a deeper understanding about Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing, diversity and systemic factors impacting experiences of trauma.
It covers the neurobiology of trauma, and focuses on giving you practical clinical skills for recognising and addressing trauma, avoiding re-traumatizing and promoting healing.
Delivery: 1 day face-to-face
Advanced:
An intensive champion mentor training.
Experience a deep reflective practice workshop where you will gain skills and confidence in supporting and championing sustainable implementation of a strengths-based, culturally informed, and trauma-integrated healing approach to working with Aboriginal parents experiencing complex trauma in your workplace.
Delivery: 2 x 2-day face-to-face workshops
Who’s doing the research?
The HPNF project is being conducted by the Indigenous Health Equity Unit at eth University of Melbourne, in partnership with VACCA, Latrobe Regional Hospital and Latrobe City Council.
The project team can be contact at hpnf-project@unimelb.edu.au