Social Emotional WellBeing (SEWB)

AMSANT continues to build primary health care (PHC) workforce skills and capacity in coping with trauma, by provided information and training sessions to health service and clinical staff across the NT.  An important component to our program is the provision of ongoing support and mentoring for ACCHSs and NTG PHC services.

The ACCHO sector has grown rapidly in the last forty years and is now the largest provider of Aboriginal PHC in the Northern Territory.  AMSANT member services have validated our program, and recognise it as an important need within communities to address ~ and heal ~ intergenerational trauma.

AMSANT provides Clinical Supervision through the SEWB program to support and enable health care workers to feel strong and confident in their roles as they strive to deliver best practice to Aboriginal communities.  Our support team is made up of Aboriginal professionals with extensive experience in trauma and SEWB.  

The Workforce Development Support Unit works closely as a part of the greater SEWB team to tailor and deliver training workshops, forums, and holistic support for organisations across the NT, whether it’s big or small, regional, or remote. Training currently offered and in development includes: case notes and management; domestic, family and sexual violence; leadership, coaching and mentoring; yarning, data and reflective practice; and narrative practice.

Our Culturally Responsive Trauma Informed Practice support team provides training developed in consultation with our communities and elders in the NT.  It focuses on local Aboriginal experience, and knowledge of trauma and healing, that is demonstrated from a local cultural context.

The Suicide Story project safeguards best cultural practice to assist our mob (health workers, youth workers etc) to develop the necessary life skills to assist those who are suffering from trauma and/or grieving.  Our workshops provide mutual support in preventing suicide and increase the resilience, hope and healing of participants.

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid facilitators deliver a 2-day course to workers and community members in how to assist an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander adult who is developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis.

The SEWB team is deeply involved in Policy, Planning, Research and Evaluation collaborations to build evidence-based practice within Aboriginal PHC and advocate for change in line with this growing evidence-base. We seek to learn from the pre-existing wisdom, values and lore of Aboriginal people to change the systems and policies that reinforce trauma as a pervasive element of life.

SEWB team


Ameina Brunker
SEWB manager


Robert Randall
Clinical Supervisor (AHP)
(Engagement Lead Central Australia)


Sarah Haythornthwaite
Clinical Supervisor
[casual on call]

Ngarla Kunoth-Monks
SEWB Facilitator
(Engagement Lead Barkly)

Heidi Perner
SEWB Facilitator
(Engagement Lead Big Rivers)

Dana McDonald
SEWB Postvention Member Support Coordinator

 


Daisy Burgoyne
Workforce Development Coordinator
(Engagement Lead Big Rivers)


Aimon Riyana
SEWB Facilitator
(Engagement Lead West Arnhem)


Mona Roberts
Suicide Story Coordinator
(Engagement Lead Greater Darwin)

Daniel Norris
National Suicide Prevention Trial Project Officer
(Engagement Lead Greater Darwin)

Rosie Schubert
SEWB Facilitator /
Online content development [casual]

Julia Messner
SEWB Suicide Prevention Networks and Advocacy Coordinator