❓ The Minister for Training and Workforce Development details the Roaming Education and Community Health (REaCH) project, a partnership providing training for nursing students and primary healthcare services to marginalised communities.
AnsweredQoN 562Legislative Assembly
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ROAMING
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
562. MR N.W. MORTON to the Minister for Training and Workforce
Development:
Before I ask my question I acknowledge the fantastic students
and staff from Maida Vale Primary School, which is in my electorate, who are in
the gallery today. Could the minister please provide details of the roaming
education and community health project that he officially opened at the Central
Institute of Technology this morning?
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
562. MR N.W. MORTON to the Minister for Training and Workforce
Development:
Before I ask my question I acknowledge the fantastic students
and staff from Maida Vale Primary School, which is in my electorate, who are in
the gallery today. Could the minister please provide details of the roaming
education and community health project that he officially opened at the Central
Institute of Technology this morning?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Forrestfield for his question. Indeed,
prior to Parliament starting today, I had the chance to open a recent
initiative that also has the support of the Minister for Health. The roaming
education and community health project is located at the Central Institute of
Technology. It is a partnership between the Central Institute of Technology,
Curtin University and the Department of Health. It does two things. It is a
workplace training environment for students enrolled in nursing at the Central
Institute of Technology and in registered nursing at Curtin University. It also
provides primary healthcare services to those in our community who are
marginalised. It is funded by the federal government and is running over a
number of years. Today I opened the Wellness Centre at the Central Institute.
Effectively, it looks like a
hospital ward. Students are not only training in the centre, but also providing primary healthcare
services to those in the community who are homeless, migrants, refugees,
disaffected youth and the like. Alongside a qualified nurse, a bunch of
trainees assess people's health and provide feedback and so on. The
great thing is that it provides industry-level training in the workplace, which
we know is fundamental to good practice. Those who are starting to engage in
the training process can ask themselves whether it is the career they want. It
gives students a grounded understanding of the services that they will provide
once they finish their qualifications. Just as importantly, it provides
services to those people in the community who might not otherwise access those
primary healthcare services. In some cases, it is an educational process to
help people learn preventive approaches to maintain their health.
There are three parts to the
program. REaCH stands for roaming education and community health. The first
part of the project is population health checks. Students will go out into the
community; for instance, they might be at a shopping centre and do health
checks on anyone who goes past. They provide feedback on each person's
health and provide them with a card. That gives the students access to data
about what is happening in the population and helps train young men and women
who want a pathway into health services.
There are also mobile wellness
centres that might go into a community facility such as an aged-care facility
or the likes of St Bartholomew's House, where a number of people need
primary health services, and for the trainees who deliver those services it is
a training environment. The Reach Wellness Centre in Mt Lawley is the primary
centre where those in that area can go to access services that they perhaps may
not have been able to. This is a fantastic partnership. It is not very often
that we get alignment between a training facility, a university and the
Department of Health to deliver services. It is a fantastic model. It is the
first one in Australia, and it is an initiative of the Central Institute of
Technology. There are very good examples overseas, and I am looking forward to
this playing a bigger role in delivering health services in Western Australia
and training those very important young men and women who will deliver those
services.
prior to Parliament starting today, I had the chance to open a recent
initiative that also has the support of the Minister for Health. The roaming
education and community health project is located at the Central Institute of
Technology. It is a partnership between the Central Institute of Technology,
Curtin University and the Department of Health. It does two things. It is a
workplace training environment for students enrolled in nursing at the Central
Institute of Technology and in registered nursing at Curtin University. It also
provides primary healthcare services to those in our community who are
marginalised. It is funded by the federal government and is running over a
number of years. Today I opened the Wellness Centre at the Central Institute.
Effectively, it looks like a
hospital ward. Students are not only training in the centre, but also providing primary healthcare
services to those in the community who are homeless, migrants, refugees,
disaffected youth and the like. Alongside a qualified nurse, a bunch of
trainees assess people's health and provide feedback and so on. The
great thing is that it provides industry-level training in the workplace, which
we know is fundamental to good practice. Those who are starting to engage in
the training process can ask themselves whether it is the career they want. It
gives students a grounded understanding of the services that they will provide
once they finish their qualifications. Just as importantly, it provides
services to those people in the community who might not otherwise access those
primary healthcare services. In some cases, it is an educational process to
help people learn preventive approaches to maintain their health.
There are three parts to the
program. REaCH stands for roaming education and community health. The first
part of the project is population health checks. Students will go out into the
community; for instance, they might be at a shopping centre and do health
checks on anyone who goes past. They provide feedback on each person's
health and provide them with a card. That gives the students access to data
about what is happening in the population and helps train young men and women
who want a pathway into health services.
There are also mobile wellness
centres that might go into a community facility such as an aged-care facility
or the likes of St Bartholomew's House, where a number of people need
primary health services, and for the trainees who deliver those services it is
a training environment. The Reach Wellness Centre in Mt Lawley is the primary
centre where those in that area can go to access services that they perhaps may
not have been able to. This is a fantastic partnership. It is not very often
that we get alignment between a training facility, a university and the
Department of Health to deliver services. It is a fantastic model. It is the
first one in Australia, and it is an initiative of the Central Institute of
Technology. There are very good examples overseas, and I am looking forward to
this playing a bigger role in delivering health services in Western Australia
and training those very important young men and women who will deliver those
services.
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