Ramahyuck delivers a range of health and community development services to the Indigenous and wider community across Gippsland. Through its health clinics in Sale, Morwell and Drouin, and also in collaboration with partners across the greater Gippsland region, Ramahyuck delivers programs aimed at:
- Providing comprehensive primary health care along with chronic disease management
- Ensuring a holistic approach to health through social and emotional wellbeing programs
- Implementing innovative community enterprise and engagement initiatives
Ramahyuck has a proud history and acknowledges its founding members who had the foresight and vision to recognise community needs and advocate for the establishment of the organisation to advance the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in the region.
A drug and alcohol worker provides drug and alcohol counselling and referral from all sites across Gippsland. Tobacco action workers develop initiatives to shift community attitudes towards smoking, to encourage quit attempts, and to support quitting through brief interventions.
The Sale site offers optometry, free audiology services, podiatry and physiotherapy. Transport can be arranged for community members. Please contact your local site for more details.
In conjunction with West Gippsland Healthcare Group, RDAC provides: cardio pulmonary rehabilitation, continence advisory services and dietetics. They also offer chronic health prevention workers at all sites across Gippsland.
All sites provide a space for meetings and gatherings for Aboriginal community members and organisations.
Ramahyuck provides HACC services to clients and their carers who are frail, aged or have a disability. Services include: domestic assistance; personal care; property maintenance; and Planned Activity Group.
Ramahyuck offers social, emotional and wellbeing therapists to support community members.
Ramahyuck offers social, emotional and wellbeing therapists to support community members as well as stolen generation support. Please contact your local centre for more details.
Ramahyuck offers women’s health days. These days are made for women and conducted by women to address womenonly health issues along with other related topics.
Ramahyuck offers parenting programs, stronger families programs, Aboriginal family decision-making programs, family preservation and restoration programs, and child-first programs to community members.
Ramahyuck offers cultural competency training programs. Ramahyuck is a registered training organisation.
Transport is provided to attend Ramahyuck medical appointments and to specialist and other local appointments.
PO Box: PO Box 1240 Sale 3850
Phone: 03 5143 1644
Address:
117 Foster Street, Sale VIC 3850, Australia
Services Provided:
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOS) Aboriginal Medical Services Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Services Allied Health Services Audiology Cardio Pulmonary Rehabilitation Children’s Services Chronic Disease Management & Services Education Services Family & Domestic Violence Services Gathering Spaces Health Services Home and Community Care Services (HACC) Men’s Services Optometry Physiotherapy Podiatry Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation (RDAC) Transport Services Women’s Services