Our Team

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As a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary team, we facilitate the building of Aboriginal community and Elder-led relationships with Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Support Services. We use co-design framed by Aboriginal-led participatory action research to rebalance the power held by mainstream services. Our co-design work privileges an Aboriginal worldview in order to decolonise decision making and reorient priorities such that Communities are in a position to hold services to account.

“We see a future where Aboriginal people feel confident they can access any mental health or drug and alcohol service in Western Australia knowing they will receive culturally secure and responsive care.”

Michael Wright

Lead Researcher

Jamie-Lauren Culbong

Project Officer

Tiana Culbong

Senior Research Officer

Amanda Sibosado

Affiliate

River Starcevich

Research Associate

Margaret O’Connell

Research Fellow

John Fielder

Senior Research Officer

Helen Flavell

Elizabeth Newnham

Tilsa Guima Chinen

Research Associate

Michelle Webb

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Tanya Jones

Projects Coordinator