Useful Resources

To support families

• iPEPA animated video series:
  • What is Palliative Care?
  • Understanding trajectories to serious illness
  • Loss, grief and healing
  • Feelings
  • Pain Management

• Understanding the palliative care journey – a guide for individuals, carers, communities and family – Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc (1MB pdf)
• Supportive Care, Into the Dreaming – Hunter New England Local Health District
• Dying to Talk - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Discussion Starter: Working Out What’s Right For You. Palliative Care Australia
• Taking Control of YOUR Health Journey (20MB pdf) - developed as part of a project funded by the Australian Government to increase awareness of advance care planning in the Aboriginal community
• My Journey to Dreaming Diary. Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW
• Understanding Morphine. (11MB pdf) Cancer Council Queensland
• Yarning about morphine (5MB pdf) PallConsult First Nationsl Palliative Care Project

To support clinicians

• iPEPA
• Greg Chatfield’s Story: an Indigenous Palliative Care Journey – PEPA video resource to teach non-Indigenous healthcare workers/clinicians how to consider the importance of creating safe spaces for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Quick guide to your first conversation about palliative care - IPEPA
• Gwandalan Project - a suite of tailored education and training materials to support cultural safety within palliative care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2021–2031
• Aboriginal End-of-Life and Palliative Care Framework
• Culturally appropriate palliative care in the West Kimberley – Cancer Council Western Australia
• Culturally-responsive palliative care for Australian Indigenous peoples - PCC4U educator webinar 2
• Sad news sorry business: Guidelines for caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through death and dying
• Taking care of Dying Time Aboriginal Community Support Worker, Chris Thorne talks about his personal experience with a family member and the value and importance of having an advance care plan in place
• Discussing choices. Indigenous Advance Care Plans, a learning resource
• Finishing up. Advance Care Plans on Groote Eyland
• Advance Care Yarning - Your Care, Your Choice, Your Belonging -PallConsult First Nations Palliative Care Project
• Advance Care Yarning - Forms to support you - PallConsult First Nations Palliative Care Project
• Advance Care Yarning - A Family Story - PallConsult First Nations Palliative Care Project