AIMhi Stay Strong
This app is designed to be used by service providers and clients in a client session. It is available in iOS and Android versions and facilitates discussion about:
Friends and family who help keep clients strong and healthy
Personal strengths relating to spiritual and cultural, physical, family, social and work, and mental and emotional aspects of clients’ lives – represented visually as leaves on a tree
Aspects of clients’ lives that take away their strength in the same four areas
Setting client-driven goals for change to work on
Plans for achieving their goals and steps towards goals
It includes screening based on K5 and K10 scales and help-seeking prompts for people who score high levels of psychological distress.
A youth version of the AIMhi app, AIMhi-y, is under development but not yet available for download. It is funded by Northern Territory PHN as part of the National Suicide Prevention Trial.
Source: Menzies School of Health Research
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"An online collection of resources to support the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander frontline health and wellbeing workforces, including: community health and wellbeing workers mental health workers family support education and youth services. The resources focus on social and emotional wellbeing, access to culture, healing and safety planning."
This Powerpoint presentation describes the roles of language and culture in the social and emotional wellbeing of people in the East Kimberley. From a 2019 Empowered Communities workshop. Source: Binarri Binyja Yarrawoo
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