“Yeddung Guri Yeddung Yerra” Project

Established in 2008

Indigenous pre- & primary school children in SNSWLHD

Combined screening

Project Aims

Improve the OH Indigenous children

integrated screening

Training Indigenous health professionals

Establishing referral pathways

Promotional resources

Our Contribution

Literature review

Creating promotional resources

Clinician steps for OH screening

Training an Indigenous health care worker

OH promotion

Non clinical setting

Understanding Queanbeyan’s Indigenous Community

Opportunistic & flexible

Political & social challenges

Need & value of an Indigenous health worker

Communication

Cultural understanding

Premature aging

Other discrepancies

Numgbin & Ngungahlla