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Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Islander Strait cultural safety - ASSESSMENT: Practical - Presentation Development

This assessment has six (6) steps. Each step is outlined in detail in the following pages. The completed PowerPoint presentation must address all aspects of the following steps.

Step one: Consider your own identity - Part 1.

Step two: Reflect on your understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - Part 2.

Step three: Research the historical impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities -including via contact with community elders - Parts 3-4.

Step four: Review strategies used to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander needs - Parts 5-6.

Step five: Make a presentation for peers about your learnings - Part 7.

Step six: Submit your assessment via Blackboard.

PRESENTATION DEVELOPMENT instructions:

Topic: 'What I've learned about improving cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.'

Introduction: "We have hopefully learnt from history that goodwill and good intentions are not enough." (Bamblett, Frederico, Harrison, Jackson & Lewis, 2012. p. 71)

• As you can see by the title of this assignment it is about bringing the concepts of cultural safety to light through processes that include your own understanding and your learnings about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
• Use the marking tables given as a guide to how to complete the assessment.

Step one - Consider your own identity

Part 1: Who are you?

Use the model provided and the prompts, relating to your own life (briefly) to outline your identity overview.

(NOTE: this model is based on establishing the identity of an Aboriginal child but it serves as a succinct guide to the influences in all of our lives. Consider the centre circle as representing your cultural needs.)

Record relevant information about each element.

(NOTE: Write the more detailed version for your presentation in the notes section, but a summarised version, which represents an overall view, on the PowerPoint slide).

Identity model: (to the right)

Prompts:

• personal identity - Who you are.
• family, community - Who you belong to, do you have a sense of community identity.
• country - Where you belong, if you feel a sense of belonging to any place.
• cultural expression, events participation - What you do as an expression of your culture.
• family history, cultural history - Where you come from.
• values, beliefs and practices - What you believe.

Step two - Reflect on your understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Part 2: "My understanding of and views on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were formed by ..."

NOTE: Every person comes into the world with a history behind them. You have just mapped your own identity in the world. Now consider the influences in your life, such as the people around you, the places that you have lived, your schooling, level of education, experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and your knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues. Answer the following questions to include in your presentation.

Reflect awareness of own culture, any cultural biases and how your understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture has been formed, by using the following questions as prompts about your own experiences and your workplace.

• Have you had any/many interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in your life?
• Have you known Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people closely?
• Where did / does your information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people mostly come from?
• Is the information you have covered in this course what you had already known, not known, or partially known and are there aspects of the information or your experiences that stand out to you regarding your opinion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
• Were the influences in your life regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge positive and empowering about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues or did they follow common thinking and underlying racial marginalisation? NOTE: (this can be a confronting issue to consider. You are welcome to acknowledge your beliefs but you must do so in the spirit of the information you are receiving (cultural safety). Your input will not be observed by other students, only the educators for marking.)
• Evaluate the workplace you are in now (NOTE: it does not have to be a health setting if you are not currently working in health). Compare it to the concepts of cultural safety. Are there any aspects of cultural safety apparent in your workplace?

Step three - Research the historical impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Part 3: Reflection on the student's own understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by establishing the identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as a cultural group.

(NOTE: Read the timeline following. It summarises many key events in the history of Australian constitutional changes relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Identify a timeframe/event from the timeline that you find interesting and significant for Indigenous or Torres Strait Islander people. (other than 1948)

Complete some further research on the issue via the internet and your texts so that you understand the context of the event. Also engage with your local community elders to conduct research on their understanding of the community heritage/history issue.

In your answer, give a brief description of the event and explain why it was an important event in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander historical experiences. (100 - 150 words) You are required to include the local community elder's 'personal communication' as a reference in the completed presentation.

Part 4: Explore specific impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from historical approaches.

Explain the fundamental long term impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as a result of the issues or circumstances listed below. Ensure you also give an example of the issue to support your answer. (one paragraph for each point)

• The impact of European settlement (including loss of land and culture).
• The impact on health and disease.
• The impact of racism and discrimination, including past and present power relations.
• The importance of law and kinship in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Step four - Review strategies used to support and engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander needs

Part 5: How health and safety information is shared

NOTE: Historical processes by previous Australian governments have often imposed what they considered to be best for Indigenous people, usually failing to consult with the people. Often such programmes were not taken up well. Initiatives developed on the ground, by the people, for the people, have a far greater likelihood of working to support indigenous people to take ownership of problems related to health care. (Some brochures/resources are provided here for you below, but if you choose to explore other versions, you must identify the resource clearly).

Choose two (2) resources to examine and compare. Then write your responses to the following questions.

• Can you identify if the material was made by, or in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and note how difficult/easy it is to find that information?
• Identify and think about the communication style and content of the information. Does it seem a positive, negative, or neutral approach to addressing the problem and in referring to the people with the problem?
• Identify at least three (3) strategies that have been used to enhance communication with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the resources you have chosen; including a description, if they are similar or different to each other, and in what way.
• Explain how the strategies used and the type of information provided in the materials targeted for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are evidence of cultural safety in action. (50 - 100 words)
• Identify the most effective way to evaluate whether the information/materials provided are relevant and effective for its target audience. (50 - 100 words)

Part 6: Cultural safety and effectiveness in health services

NOTE: Brochures and information will not improve health outcomes and use of health services on their own, so strategies which support self-determination must be put in place to move toward agreed outcomes.

Give a brief overview of the kind of requirements a health service that is culturally safe for both colleagues and clients would have from a partnership/community control perspective, with reasons as to why they are necessary. (80 - 120 words)

• Include the most effective way to have the strategies evaluated, which works within cultural safety.

STEP FIVE - Make a presentation for peers about your learnings

Part 7: The PowerPoint presentation

NOTE: In your health workplace, there is an initiative to demonstrate cultural safety by featuring staff member's exploration of the topic. You are to promote your understanding of cultural safety for your work area. Following are some specific guidelines to assist you in the production of the presentation.

Produce a presentation for workplace colleagues to promote your understanding of cultural safety and your communication of respect to ATSI people.

NOTES:

• Prepare the presentation with dot points in the slides and details of the answers to the all parts of the assessment in the notes pages. (Appendix 1)
• You can choose the presentation style/design, but it should not take away from the information.
• Similarly, you can add pictures from your research but take care that they are relevant and appropriate to the topic.
• You may choose any titles for your slides but keep in mind you are demonstrating your learning about the criteria required in the questions, so titles should logically reflect those criteria.
• A sample structure is provided below to guide your presentation's size. Although you can go over the number of slides suggested it must not exceed 20 slides. (suggestions provided below)
• Include a list of references and readings you have accessed for your answers on the last slide. Use the Harvard referencing style outlined in your student handbooks and Blackboard page.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar