NDIS Aboriginal Health Worker
Find a list of NDIS Aboriginal Health Worker . There are currently some Aboriginal Health Worker providers offering a range of services.
The NDIS includes a special initiative for Aboriginal Australians with disability called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Strategy. The goal of the strategy is to make it easier for people in Aboriginal communities to access NDIS funding for the care they receive.
Empowering Aboriginal health workers is an important aspect of the NDIS. It ensures that critical supports can be delivered in a respectful, effective, and culturally sensitive way. Through this engagement, the government aims to “listen, learn, build, and deliver.”
Support for Aboriginals with disability revolves around a set of key ideas:
- Country, culture, and community
- Human rights
- Availability of mainstream as well as specialist disability services
- Universal consideration of disability
- Meaningful and “proper” engagement
- Improved research and data collection regarding Aboriginals with disability
Aboriginal health workers take a wide range of factors into account. For example, a lot of traditional languages do not have a word for “disability.” And perceptions of disability vary widely across different communities. These differences become more pronounced when you compare Aboriginal people living in urban centres with those living in rural or remote areas.
For the second group, access to research and care is oftentimes very limited. Also, many Aboriginal people hold a skeptical view of government programs due to historical reasons and unpleasant personal experiences.
That is why having properly trained Aboriginal health workers is such a crucial part of the NDIS. They understand that proper care for Aboriginal people with disability cannot be provided until they have earned the trust of those people—and also the trust of the community at large.
The National Disability Insurance Agency is dedicated to establishing that trust so that Aboriginals with disability can access all of the supports covered by the NDIS.