- Title
- A Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Public Health Emergency Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in Australia, Developed during COVID-19
- Creator
- Graham, Simon; Kamitsis, Ilias; Chamberlain, Catherine; Kennedy, Michelle; Heris, Christina; Bright, Tess; Bennetts, Shannon K.; Jones, Kimberley A.; Fiolet, Renee; Mohamed, Janine; Atkinson, Caroline
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 19, Issue 23, no. 15626
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315626
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic impacted peoples’ livelihoods and mental wellbeing. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia continue to experience intergenerational trauma associated with colonization and may experience trauma-related distress in response to government responses to public health emergencies. We aimed to develop a culturally responsive trauma-informed public health emergency response framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led study involved: (i) a review of trauma-informed public health emergency responses to develop a draft framework (ii) interviews with 110 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents about how COVID-19 impacted their lives, and (iii) a workshop with 36 stakeholders about pandemic experiences using framework analysis to refine a culturally responsive trauma-informed framework. The framework included: an overarching philosophy (cultural humility, safety and responsiveness); key enablers (local leadership and Eldership); supporting strategies (provision of basic needs and resources, well-functioning social systems, human rights, dignity, choice, justice and ethics, mutuality and collective responsibility, and strengthening of existing systems); interdependent core concepts (safety, transparency, and empowerment, holistic support, connectedness and collaboration, and compassion, protection and caring); and central goals (a sense of security, resilience, wellbeing, self- and collective-efficacy, hope, trust, resilience, and healing from grief and loss).
- Subject
- Indigenous; complex trauma; Aboriginal; Torres Strait Islander; public health emergency; framework
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1481254
- Identifier
- uon:50687
- Identifier
- ISSN:1661-7827
- Rights
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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