02 June 2025
This week is National Reconciliation Week, and we’re spotlighting the organisations that make up our Aboriginal Consultative Council, a group intended to build trust and strengthen shared decision making and therefore support self-determination within the community.
Today we are spotlighting First Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing.
First Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing is a dynamic Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation offering affordable primary healthcare services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People and their families in urban Melbourne. Their clinics offer trauma-informed care in environments that are culturally-safe, calm and healing.
With clinics both in Thomastown and their recently opened clinic in Frankston, they have a growing primary healthcare team of Aboriginal Health Practitioners, Nurses, General Practitioners, Psychologists, Social and Emotional Wellbeing Staff, Allied Health Workers and Medical Administration Officers.
Their Frankston clinic also accommodates Baluk Balert Barring – Victoria’s first Aboriginal Early Parenting Centre. Baluk Balert Barring – many strong footprints – will provide First Nations families with a culturally-safe model of early parenting care that builds on the strengths of Aboriginal families, culture and community.
First Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing is committed to achieving health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples.
