health. This latter objective is to be achieved through the Group activities are used to promote nutrition, parenting provision of culturally appropriate education and support. skills and baby care. Cooking demonstrations and picnics The trains Aboriginal health workers to provide ‘NTP are held, and the service provides a regular playgroup, effective and culturally acceptable care for Aboriginal which gives mothers the chance to socialise, while allowing women during further 135 The pregnancy and until infants are one year of age’. opportunities for Aboriginal health workers to provide health workers are local to the area, known to the women and education to parents on self-care and child wellbeing. able to communicate with them in their own language. Outcome of the project Generally, the main focus is on home visits and individual support, with regular outreach service to expectant A self-reported weakness of the service relates to ‘the mothers, new mothers and babies under the age of one. need for specific training for health workers in Counselling and encouragement of breastfeeding is mainly breastfeeding and 136 done on an individual basis, either in the woman’s home or infant nutrition’. during her regular visits to the clinic.
health. This latter objective is to be achieved through the provision of culturally appropriate education and support. The ‘NTP trains Aboriginal health workers to provide effective and culturally acceptable care for Aboriginal women during Group activities are used to promote nutrition, parenting skills and baby care. Cooking demonstrations and picnics are held, and the service provides a regular playgroup, which gives mothers the chance to socialise, while allowing further 135 pregnancy and until infants are one year of age’. The health opportunities for Aboriginal health workers to provide workers are local to the area, known to the women and able to communicate with them in their own language. Generally, the main focus is on home visits and individual support, with regular outreach service to expectant mothers, new mothers and babies under the age of one. Counselling and encouragement of breastfeeding is mainly done on an individual basis, either in the woman’s home or during her regular visits to the clinic. education to parents on self-care and child wellbeing. Outcome of the project A self-reported weakness of the service relates to ‘the need for specific training for health workers in breastfeeding and 136 infant nutrition’.