Building Culturally Safe, Healing-Informed Comfort Care Across SA
The SA Aboriginal Comfort Care Innovation Project is here.
Led by NATSIPCA with the support of the SA Department for Health and Wellbeing, we’re working alongside community to strengthen culturally safe, healing-informed comfort care for Aboriginal and Islander peoples across South Australia.
Grounded in our ways of knowing, being and doing, this project supports families, community and health workers to create end-of-life journeys that honour dignity, culture, connection and choice.\
Our Goal
To ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to ensure Aboriginal people, families and communities experience comfort care that upholds dignity, cultural safety, connection and choice throughout the end-of-life journey.
Why it matters
Aboriginal and Islander people face unique barriers to culturally safe comfort care. This project ensures individuals, families and communities receive end-of-life support that honours dignity, culture, connection and choice.
Our Purpose …
To influence culturally grounded models of care that reflect Aboriginal and Islander ways of knowing, being, and doing, ensuring Aboriginal and Islander people receive dignified, respectful, and culturally safe care at the end of life.
Co design
local community and indivuals voices and choice
designing the system to reflect local circumstances to local needs