Yarning With Our Mob - Elise and Amy

11/13/20 • 47 min

Positive Partnerships are excited to launch our new podcast series, ‘Yarning with Our Mob’.

During this podcast series, Positive Partnerships Team Leader of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Families & Community programs, Maria Watson-Trudgett of the Wiradjuri people, will be yarning with parents, carers and service providers who will be sharing their stories and challenges about autism in Indigenous communities.

In this episode, we yarn with Elise of the Wiradjuri and Palawa people, who is an adult on the autism spectrum and Amy, who is a carer of an Aboriginal boy, Jarvis, of the Yuggera people.

During this episode, Elise and Amy will be yarning about the autism diagnosis journey while sharing some of the strategies, challenges and potentials.

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Artwork, 'A Working Together Journey', by Maria Watson-Trudgett.

Positive Partnerships are excited to launch our new podcast series, ‘Yarning with Our Mob’.

In this episode, we yarn with Elise of the Wiradjuri and Palawa people, who is an adult on the autism spectrum and Amy, who is a carer of an Aboriginal boy, Jarvis, of the Yuggera people.

During this episode, Elise and Amy will be yarning about the autism diagnosis journey while sharing some of the strategies, challenges and potentials.

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Positive Partnerships Podcast Series Episode 6

Welcome to Episode 6 in the Positive Partnerships Podcast Series. In this episode, we meet Kirsty Russell, a passionate mum from Newcastle, NSW with 3 children, 2 of which are on the autism spectrum.Kirsty's eldest child Xander also has the genetic condition albinism.Kirsty introduces us to some practical solutions on how to work in partnership with her children's schools and teaches us that you can be positive, you can be proactive and no matter what the circumstances are, you can have a fulfilling life.The Positive Partnerships initiative is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training through the Helping Children with Autism Package. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of the Australian Government or the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.

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Yarning With Our Mob - Billie, Cliff and Sharelle

In this episode of ‘Yarning with Our Mob’, we yarn with Billie and Cliff of the Yuin People, who are parents, and Sharelle of the Kabi Kabi and Darumbal People, Acting Chief Executive Officer from the North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health, about the resilience of families.

Kanat Wano of the Kerwaid Village, Komet Tribe and Mer Nation and Maria Watson-Trudgett, Positive Partnerships Team Leader of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Families & Community programs of the Wiradjuri people are the facilitators for this episode.

* For more information about Sharelle’s organisation, the North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health (NCACCH), visit https://ncacch.org.au/