Utility Creative is proud to announce the launch of the Replanting the Birthing Trees Resource Hub, a new online research repository of hundreds of new and existing peer reviewed health resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community.
Designed and developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Health Equity Unit at The University of Melbourne, the centralised repository of Indigenous health resources was developed as part of the Replanting the Birthing Trees Project, which aims to achieve improved outcomes during the first 2,000 days of a baby’s life.
The resource hub brings together hundreds of articles, videos and images from across the Australia into a single, accessible location. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, as well as clinicians, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers, can now access essential, culturally appropriate health resources.
The website, developed in close collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Elders, includes features such as offline access for users in remote areas, emergency support and mental health assistance, quick-exit functionality for user safety and favourite and share options for resources.
Palawa Trawlwoolway woman from the North-East Coast of Tasmania, Prof. Cath Chamberlain, a registered midwife and Professor of Indigenous Health at the Indigenous Health Equity unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health said the new website will play a critical to ensuring easy access to vital health resources.
“We aim to help parents in achieving their hopes and dreams for a happy, safe and healthy family. Our goal is to recreate safe and sacred birth spaces and care in the first 2,000 days so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples can once again grow up strong in this abundant land that we all share.
“The Replanting the Birthing Trees Project addresses critical, documented gaps in perinatal care by building infrastructure for culturally safe, trauma-integrated, holistic, trans-disciplinary perinatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. This new website will play a key role in ensuring these vital resources can be easily accessed by everyone, from Community to practitioners,” said Prof. Chamberlain.