Building a Healthy Community
Our Services
The Mornington Island Health Council have a team of local Aboriginal people who work to provide health services and support to our community. We have long-standing partnerships with local and visiting health services, working together to optimise the health and wellbeing of our people.
Thuaaka Child and
Family Health Services
- Care coordination
- Case management for vulnerable families with complex needs
- Family support services
- Integrated and holistic approaches to enhance health and wellbeing of individuals and families
- Referral and follow-up care
- Tailored and family-led goal setting
- Individual and peer-group support options
- Bringing together of both health and social support needs
- Trusting relationships with families to improve health and wellbeing outcomes
Service Coordination
- Support visiting child health service providers
- Support health literacy by providing parents/carers with practical actions they can undertake to protect and look after their child’s health, with the support of qualified health practitioners
- Support coordination of outreach clinics
- Support primary health services with better surveillance, referrals and follow-up care
- Improve attendance rates
- Provide local knowledge and intelligence to optimise family engagement and enhance the cultural safety of health services
Virtual Health Care
Mornington Island Virtual Health Care Trial represents a very new model of care for our community, by providing community-based health care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with Type 2 Diabetes on Mornington Island through the provision of remote patient monitoring systems.
- Full health check, assessment, screening and testing including blood sugar levels, HbA1c, urine ACR and cholesterol
- Foot checks, eye health checks
- Diabetes education and advice about nutrition
- Care planning and ongoing medical advice in partnership with Gidgee Healing
Family Focused Case Management
- Case management for families
- Family support services
- Integrated and holistic approaches to enhance health and wellbeing of individuals and families
- Referral and follow-up care
- Tailored and family-led goal setting
- Individual and peer-group support options
- Bringing together of both health and social support needs
- Trusting relationships with families to improve health and wellbeing outcomes