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Key Details

Organisation Name

WellMob website – eMHPrac

Location

61 Uralba Street, Lismore NSW
Australia

Website

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eMHIC Member Status

Community Member

At a Glance

Description

The WellMob website is a portal of online Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The website has over 550 online resources that can be used by practitioners in health promotion, therapy and healing.

Implementation Status

Early-stage development

Target Population

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

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Initiative Overview

The Current Gap

The portal has grown from listing 120 online resources at is mid-2020 launch to over 550 in the space of 5 years. Website use has grown from 24K sessions in its first year to up to 300K p.a, with a 41% increase in average daily users in the previous 12 months. Since development & roll out of the website, the project team have focused on workforce development to use online interventions including the website. Main activities have included delivering training, webinars, podcasts, online content and conference and guest lecture presentations.

The WellMob project work collaboratively with many First Nations led and mainstream mental health providers. These include headspace, SANE, Beyond Blue, Emerging Minds, ThisWayUp and Lifeline. The project also work on content development with the Black Dog Institute, 13YARN, NSW Health, NT Health and Institute for Urban Indigenous Health. The team work collaboratively within the University of Sydney based research centres including the Matilda Centre, Brain and Mind Centre and the InsideOut Institute.

Our Solution

The project is looking to develop further workforce development content focusing raising practitioner awareness, confidence and skills at using digital SEWB tools with First Nations clients, especially in prevention/ early-prevention space and applying holistic SEWB models of care.

Key Features

1

CPD

PD resource for non-Indigenous practitioner to improve culturally competency in practice

2

In-session online resources

The website is used extensively by a range of health professionals in primary health care and community education settings to improve health literacy of First Nations clients.

3

Self-help

The website and promotional content are equally accessible and attractive to First Nations peoples to use as a ‘self-help’ tool in the prevention and early intervention space.

Collaboration in Action

Main Collaborators

The WellMob project work collaboratively with many First Nations led and mainstream mental health providers. These include headspace, SANE, Beyond Blue, Emerging Minds and Lifeline.
The project also work on content development with the Black Dog Institute, 13YARN, NSW Health, NT Health and Institute for Urban Indigenous Health. The team work collaboratively within the University of Sydney based research centres including the Matilda Centre, Brain and Mind Centre and the InsideOut Institute.

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Key Learnings

Sustainable funding as the project is delivered under external funding from DoHAC, via a contract with QUT to deliver the First Nations mental health/ SEWB content of the national e-Mental Health in Practice (eMHPrac) consortium. This contract has been extended 10 times since 2013 and is recurrently funded until 30/6/28
The project was co-developed with frontline Aboriginal health & wellbeing workforce to provide a one-stop library of culturally appropriate social and emotional wellbeing resources. This requires culturally safe engagement principles and ensuring all aspects of design are embedded in Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.
eMHIC have been an innovative agency to bring together First Nations voices in online mental health and digital health from across the globe.

Looking Ahead

The WellMob project continues to deliver innovative PD for both non-Indigenous and Indigenous health and wellbeing workforce that service Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Workforce development in dMH that service Indigenous populations
Maximise workforce uptake of culturally responsive online resources, services and CPD
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Key Contact

David Edwards
Director - WellMob website
University of Sydney

Email

[email protected]

Website

Media

Health professionals share tips about using WellMob with Indigenous clients
WellMob: An Introduction

Resources

Summary of WellMob Project Activities for FY26
Summary-of-WellMob-project-activities-for-FY26.docx

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