Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service Limited ANNUAL REPORT 2024/2025 57 Funded by: Federal Dept of Social Services – National Indigenous Australians Agency NSW Health – Rural Doctors Network – Western NSW Primary Health Network Celebrating over 39 years of Service since 1986 EM EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION CULTURE AT WAMS • Welcome Acknowledgement In-service • Sorry Day Acknowledgement morning assembly • Kinchela Boys home Acknowledgement • All staff/BOD Cultural Day • Harmony Day All Staff/BOD workshop • Plate of Harmony Morning Tea/Trivia Team Building session • Language Word of the Week (Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay) • Cultural days of significance broadcasts • Cultural Orientation with Staff and Visiting students • Cultural pictorials • Development Cultural Resource Guide for Employees • Welcome Acknowledgements opening meetings with visitors • Developing narratives of Artists and Artworks • Cultural Mapping Surveys • Cultural Orientation planning with BOD/ Developing a Resource Guide CULTURE IN THE COMMUNITY • Women’s Art and Yarn Session NAIDOC week at WAMS • Community Afternoon Tea NAIDOC week • Morning Tea Freedom Ride Park • Women’s Group on-Country experiences • Cultural Orientation Walgett Police Officers • Cultural Orientation Go Rural Medical Students • International Women’s Day Acknowledgement MC • Social Media posts Cultural days of significance • Welcome baby community Cultural event partnerships WNSWLHD – Walgett & Mission Australia. • Walgett Community Working Party Curry Nights • Women’s Health Week • Led Too Deadly for Diabetes 10-week program • Elders Olympics with WAMS H4L Lifestyle and Modifications Worker • Donations delivery to Carinda after storm destruction • Walgett Shire Council Cultural guidance and Acknowledgement • WCC Highschool senior students delivered SNAKE • Careers on Country Expo – secondary school Students FREEDOM RIDE MEMORIAL PARK • 60th Anniversary Freedom Ride Event/ Lead MC • Freedom Ride planting days with Walgett Community College • Planning and purchasing plants • Freedom Ride planting and pictorials for Social Media promotion • Freedom Ride interviews with ABC radio and NITV • Cate Faehrmann MP - Tour of the Freedom Ride park • Tamworth Aboriginal Medical Service - Tour of the Freedom Ride park • PHN - Tour of the Freedom Ride park • Curis Recruitment - Tour of the Freedom Ride park • Freedom Ride 60th Anniversary Report/Pictorial • Hosted Garden Network Group, identifying the garden and plants. • Ongoing meetings with Michael Bennet – Historian • Freedom Ride Website contents PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT • First-Aid CPR • Weekly Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay Sessions • Cultural Safety Training (CATSINaM) • Studying Weekly forums Master of Indigenous Health Studies
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