My name's Robin Wardle and I am currently the CEO of Family Planning welfare NT. I'm coming up to 30 years working in this organization next month and can’t believe that because it wasn't something I planned in my early nursing career.
My background is as a nurse and I've also got a Graduate Diploma in Adult Education and Diploma in Governance and another number of certificates that are always helpful like Work Health and Safety and HR. When I became a staff member of Family Planning it was as a nurse working in the clinic and then I just merged into other areas. Probably my favorite position in an organization in this health service is education.
My name is Catherine I'm a registered nurse and I have over six years’ experience in the nursing sector from emergency nursing, to community nursing and now to Cancer Council NT.
Hi, I'm my name is Jack Wallace, I work at Cancer Council NT as a cancer prevention coordinator.
In terms of my qualifications, I studied in Melbourne in a Bachelor of Health Science and Bachelor of Business first of all, majoring in public health and marketing and then I did a Masters of Occupational Therapy after that. So a bit of an indirect path to where I am now.
My name is Kylie Ella and I'm the Mental Health Promotion manager at TEAMhealth. My qualifications and background is I did my Undergraduate in Psychology in Sydney and following that I did a Masters of Public Health also at Sydney.
During that period I also worked all in health so from Health Administration and then during my Master's and managing a Women's Health Practice as well and then I moved to the Territory almost two years ago.
My name is Chrissie Inglis and I'm the education services manager at Healthy Living NT and my background qualification is Registered Nurse and I've also done a Bachelor of Coronary Care Nursing and a Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education Service.
I’m Simon Dixon CEO of the Heart Foundation I've been working the primary health care sector for about I think about 23 years now
I started in pathology in which I worked for a large pathology organization for 18 years before coming to the Heart Foundation and I've been with the Heart Foundation now for five years
My background, I did start a Science Degree but was given management opportunity in which time then I changed and did management and I'm in the midst now of completing my Master's in Business Administration .
TEAMhealth that is the Top End Association for Mental Health, we support people in mental health in a range of ways. We have accommodation services where people are living in; we have a short term and long term. A subacute program, which is a step up or step down from the Cody Ward and back into community. We have early intervention Child and Family Well-Being services where we are looking at people who are potentially at risk and keeping them well, and we have a Carer Support Program, which is obviously caring for people who are suffering with a mental illness and supporting those people in the carer’s role.
Then we have a range of adult mental health services, in Darwin and the rural area as well in urban and then we have community settings as well.
A number of the programs that we have so for example the Child and Family Well-Being services which is that early intervention and support that we have is across a few areas.
It is in the Darwin, Palmerston, Litchfield area then we have a service in Katherine and then one in Gunbalanya and Kakadu.
In terms of the adult mental health supports, we have what has called a Personal Helpers and Mentor Program and a Recovery Assistance Program.
Both of those programs operate in an urban setting and then they go all the way out to Adelaide River and that Darwin rural area, and then we have a program in Maningrida and Recovery Assistance Program as well in Katherine.
We try to reach the Top End and Top End Association for Mental Health so we try to make sure that people in isolated communities are supported and that obviously has its own unique challenges but also its own unique rewards.
Family Planning Welfare has been in the Territory for 42 -43 years now. It's a global organization that has uniquely started up in India of all places to give a service for
reproductive health to women.
It's a health service that globally helps women achieve a pregnancy and achieve a termination of pregnancy. It offers contraception and offers reproductive/ fertility assistance and also helps with the burden of some of the infections that we have across the globe and in the Territory
In the Australian scene it's a health service that also delivers a lot of education and health promotion to the community.
Cancer Council NT, we have a mission that we provide support, information and education to anyone affected by cancer and encompassing health promotion as well.
The focus of our health service at Cancer Council NT is basically to reduce the impact of cancer on Territorians. This can be done in a number of ways through support services for clients who have had cancer diagnosis, and also working with the community in order to drive prevention of cancer- because prevention is always better than cure.
Healthy Living NT is a charitable organisation, our real name, or our incorporated name is Diabetes Association Northern Territory. We have a membership base of people that generally have diabetes or have family members with diabetes and our basic emphasis is to be here for people with diabetes and their other services.
About 2002 we extended into cardiac services so we've provided diabetes education services for more than 20 to 25 years and since 2002 we also now provide cardiac education and rehab services as well.
Our main purpose is to be here for the community so we are outside of hospital doing community work and that's both in Darwin, Alice Springs and we do go to rural and remote communities as well to deliver diabetes and cardiac services there.
Our one service that is in hospital is our inpatient cardiac education service for people who have had recent cardiac events.
The Heart Foundation has been around for almost 60 years now right across Australia but has been in the Northern Territory since 1986
Our focus is primarily around cardiovascular disease as well as peripheral vascular disease and stroke
We're looking at the prevention and reduction of that disease within the population.
Our client groups varies, our priority group for the Territory is definitely youth and currently statistically we see about 28% to 32% of our clientele are youth, and youth is-defined as under 25. Other clientele is about 8% indigenous women attendance which is higher than the national Family Planning statistic of about 2%.cvWe see very few men unfortunately, we would like to increase our men attending our clinics and our education courses and currently it's about 3% of clients.
We're interested in getting people into clinics and education so they are aware of the right information, that they have the right resources to send them out there and they know and feel comfortable and have some sort of self-esteem to talk to a doctor in another environment. They don't always have to come back to us, we would like to set the scene for them to have confidence and the right information and then they can go out and see other health providers and not necessarily come back to us
Our main clientele is cancer clients, family, friends and carers and anyone in the wider community that's been affected by cancer.
As I mentioned before our main client groups are those Territorians who have been impacted by a cancer diagnosis and are seeking support in the community/ psychosocial support.
The population that I work with is actually the wider community, so within different community organisations, work places. Basically members of the general public that I engage with in health promotion.
Our main client group groups are very broad so we actually literally do from baby, so zero to 18years in our Early Intervention Programs.
Adults, and we have adults of all ages in a number of programs that we have, and we have Aboriginal clients obviously in our community-based settings.
We do focus on some humanitarian entrance in our early intervention as well.
Then we also support the aged, we have Home Care Packages, which is where we go into Aged homes, and support them to live independently so they do not have to go into a care setting.
Our main client groups are people and their families with diabetes, anybody with a cardiac condition. Those are two service groups that we cover under the Department of Health, Northern Territory Government, we've got contracts to deliver services directly to them.
Then another service that we provide is under the PHN (Primary Health Network) and Closing the Gap funding to people with diabetes and cardiac conditions in remote communities and remote areas.Those are our main focus groups for those services.
We also run “Life Be In It “services which are generally based around physical activity and general health, and upskilling. Getting other people motivated, increasing the baseline level of activity. That's generally focused at seniors, children, toddlers, so gross motor skills, kids at school, it's basically general community.
Our main client is the whole of Australia we look at the whole Australian population but primarily we look at those who are high risk of heart disease
We look at culturally and linguistically diverse groups Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander groups as well as rural and remote Australia and the general population that are aged above 45.