Social and emotional wellbeing

The life expectancy gap for Indigenous people in Australia is 13-17 years and most of this gap is due to preventable chronic disease (diabetes, heart, lung and renal problems) in adults.

The provision and evaluation of First Nations early childhood and youth initiatives is characterised by a lack of culturally appropriate, place-based assessment frameworks and outcome measures.

We have developed a Wellness Framework for Aboriginal people residing in Alice Springs Town Camps and have utilised this framework to develop a robust survey tool to measure the wellness of Town Ca

The Ebony Institute has completed a discussion paper on the strengths and weaknesses of Australian and global experiences with truth-telling and truth-seeking to date (stage 1).

he project was based on the north side of Brisbane, a large urban city in Queensland, Australia (Walker, Fredericks, & Anderson, 2012).

This project measured the benefits that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Groote Eylandt gain when they go ‘on-country’.

This Project aims to investigate the ways in which the cultural determinants of health and well-being sustained the development of healthy psychosocial resilience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait I

This project explored how the experience of storytelling using new media can impact on Indigenous people’s sense of wellness.

The main outcomes of this project were a national symposium to focus on the impact of racism on the health and wellbeing of children and young people from minority backgrounds, with a focus on thos

In this project, a 10-year collaborative Empowerment Research Program (ERP) was designed to assess the contribution of empowerment to addressing the social determinants of Indigenous health and wel