WellMob

10/09/2025

Connection to family, community and culture can play a crucial part in supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are experiencing suicidality. Evidence suggests yarning about su***de can help people feel heard and not feel so alone, and that doing activities with family, friends on country helps individuals feel connected. These online resources can support families and community members who want to understand how they can support people through tough times.

The two (2) resource sheets for workers highlight best practice resources to use for su***de prevention.

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08/09/2025

Every life lost to su***de is a tragedy for families, friends, and communities.
Su***de is preventable, and healing is possible.
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, su***de was virtually unknown until the second half of last century.
Today, it is one of the leading causes of death, with rates rising by 31% between 2018 and 2023 (ABS 2024).
We know the risk factors are complex – shaped by intergenerational trauma, racism, disconnection from culture, and ongoing disadvantage.

But we also know what works:
Culture is a protective factor. Programs that are grounded in identity, culture, and connection to community keep our people strong.
Community-led approaches. When First Nations people design, lead, and evaluate su***de prevention responses, they are safer, more relevant, and more effective.
Strength-based healing. Approaches that draw on lived experience and cultural knowledge foster resilience and belonging.

If you or anyone you know is in crisis or having a hard time call:
13 YARN 13 92 76
LIFELINE 13 11 14
or for more services https://wellmob.org.au/get-help/
Check out WellMob Website for online resources to support su***de prevention and postvention https://wellmob.org.au/e-health-topics/mind/su***de-and-self-harm/ ***depreventionday ***deprevention

15/07/2025

FREE Webinar for Health Professionals
Join us for a 1 hour online session as part of the NSW ACI Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Webinar Series.

Learn the foundations of Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB).
Discover how to navigate the WellMob website.
Walk away with practical, culturally safe tools to support your work in clinical and community settings.

Open to all healthcare workers – especially those working in Aboriginal Health.

🔗 Register now!

Title: Discover WellMob: Digital Tools for Social and Emotional Wellbeing
Webinar: Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Webinar Series (NSW Health Agency for Clinical Innovation)

Time/ Date: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Tue, July 22

Registration link: ef84029f-48f2-4986-b668-692366eae3c8@a687a7bf-02db-43df-bcbb-e7a8bda611a2" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ef84029f-48f2-4986-b668-692366eae3c8@a687a7bf-02db-43df-bcbb-e7a8bda611a2

08/07/2025

This year's NAIDOC theme marks 50 years of a movement—a journey of justice, rights, culture, and identity.

It’s a call to empower the next generation to rise strong, guided by the wisdom of Elders and the strength of community.
SEWB connects past, present, and future – it’s about who we are, where we come from, and who walks beside us.

WellMob aligns with this years NAIDOC theme of
🔸 Strength – All the Resources on WellMob are made by mob, for mob to keep us feeling strong and deadly.
🔸 Vision – WellMob is an online website that equips health workers to deliver SEWB-informed, culturally grounded mental health care support.
🔸 Legacy – WellMob has Best practice training tools for embedding SEWB in workforce development, ensuring lasting impact across generations.

Culturally safe care acknowledges that wellbeing is collective, cultural, and grounded in connection to Country, kinship, identity, and spirit.

Healing work must honour the legacy of survival and resistance, while building the strength and resilience of young leaders and clients today.

Happy NAIDOC!

23/06/2025

🌈 Pride is Powerful. Culture is Healing. 🖤💛❤️
This , we celebrate the strength, resilience, and beauty of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+ communities — our Brotherboys, Sistergirls, and all our mob living with pride and courage.
For many, the path to living proudly is layered — walking in two worlds, navigating racism, homophobia, and transphobia, while also staying strong in culture, kinship, and identity.
✨ Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) is about connection — to self, to community, to Country, and to culture. When these connections are strong, our spirits are strong.
This month, we honour the voices and stories of our mob whose identities sit at the intersection of Blak and Q***r. Your existence is resistance. Your joy is medicine. Your pride is revolutionary.
Let’s stand together to amplify these voices, support safe spaces, and celebrate the power of being both/and — never either/or.


See these resources and more here: https://bit.ly/3SJXhM8
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03/06/2025

Today we commemorate Mabo Day, honouring the life and legacy of Eddie Koiki Mabo, a proud Meriam man from Mer Island in the Torres Strait, whose strength and determination changed the course of Australian history.

On this day in 1992, the High Court delivered the landmark decision that recognised the traditional land rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, rejecting the false doctrine of terra nullius — the idea that this land belonged to no one before colonisation.

Eddie Mabo’s decade-long fight for justice affirmed what we’ve always known: that our people have lived, cared for, and belonged to this Country for tens of thousands of years.

Mabo Day is more than a legal milestone — it’s a day of cultural pride, remembrance, and strength. We pay tribute to all who continue the fight for land rights, self-determination, and truth.

🖤💛❤️💚💙

03/06/2025

The updated Best Practice Ideas page on WellMob — now with six clear topic areas.

Featured in the Family Support section:
"Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future" is a powerful e-learning course designed for practitioners and wellbeing workers.

This 5-hour course builds your capacity to have safe, informed conversations with First Nations parents about complex trauma.
It covers:
Historical and intergenerational trauma, The first 2,000 days of a child’s life, Trauma-aware perinatal care, Culturally safe ways to talk about trauma and healing.

https://bit.ly/3S8PyXD

31/05/2025

New Workplace Wellbeing Resources page on WellMob!

Looking to foster true inclusion for First Nations peoples in your workplace? The updated Best Practice Ideas page on WellMob — now sorted into six easy-to-navigate topics — has what you need.

Featured in the Workplace Wellbeing section:
"Leading Practice: 10 Truths to Centre Indigenous Australians’ Voices" – from Diversity Council Australia (DCA).

This resource highlights the real challenges faced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees, including:
Identity strain
Cultural load
Career development barriers
Workplace racism

These resources inform managers, supervisors and colleagues how to best support and strengthen the role of First Nations employees including providing a culturally safe workplace.

https://bit.ly/4kxlzVv

29/05/2025

We’ve refreshed the Best Practice section on the WellMob Training Resources page — making it easier to access culturally responsive tools for working with First Nations People.

Featured in the Psychology & Mental Health section:
Three practical manuals for psychology supervisors designed to support culturally safe and responsive supervision. The package includes:A general guide, A reflective journal, A manual of resources

These tools promote culturally respectful, strengths-based, and trauma-informed care in supervision settings.

With 77+ resources and growing, the Best Practice Ideas page in the Training Resources section makes it easier to access what you need to support mental health and wellbeing in culturally meaningful ways.

https://bit.ly/3H3ztjw

28/05/2025

The 1967 referendum was a major turning point in Australian history, with over 90% of voters supporting the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the census and giving the federal government power to make laws for us. It was a powerful moment of recognition that helped pave the way for important reforms like land rights and anti-discrimination laws. In contrast, the 2023 referendum to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament was rejected, despite strong public support for reconciliation and cultural pride.

The failure of the Voice referendum has had a deep emotional impact on many of our people. It reinforced feelings of exclusion, hurt, and disillusionment, adding to the trauma caused by a long history of marginalisation. Many felt unheard and unvalued in a country that we have called home for over 65,000 years.

But we are still here. Our resilience and strength as First Nations people have carried us through generations of struggle. We continue to push forward with determination—fighting for self-determined programs and culturally safe services and justice that support our social and emotional wellbeing. Our voices matter, and we will never stop working for justice, healing, and recognition.

27/05/2025

We’ve refreshed the Best Practice section on the WellMob Training Resources page — making it easier to access culturally responsive tools for working with First Nations People.

Featured Resource: Finding Your Way: a shared decision-making model for mob is a resource package for clinicians that supports a shared decision-making model grounded in Aboriginal perspectives.

Built on eight key elements of person-centered care, this toolkit includes:
Videos
Downloadable questionnaire
Posters
Social media content

Explore it now in the Culturally Safe Services section of the new Best Practice Ideas page in WellMobs’ Training Resources.

https://bit.ly/4jgMbJb

26/05/2025

Read our New Blog

Today marks the start of Reconciliation Week 2025, and this years theme is 'Bridging Now to Next', encouraging deep listening, truth-telling and allyship.

In celebration of this week the WellMob team share some training resources to build health workforce capacity to deliver culturally safe and trauma-informed care with the help of digital social and emotional wellbeing tools.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4dONspX