Bonnefin Amy, Levett Nadia, Lyons Ricky, Joseph Alexis, Smith Sharmain, Balafas Angela, Dirkis Helen, Simone Lisa, Wen Li Ming
Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
University of Sydney School of Public Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Health Promot J Austr. 2025 Apr;36(2):e70042. doi: 10.1002/hpja.70042.
There remains a wide health disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Effective health promotion programs and partnerships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal services are vital to improving Aboriginal health outcomes, closing the gap of inequality and working towards reconciliation.
The Jarjums Connections program promotes Aboriginal culture through storytelling, yoga-inspired movements and mindfulness, in Early Childhood Education and Care Services (ECECS). The program was developed in collaboration between the Aboriginal Health Unit and the Health Promotion Unit in Sydney Local Health District (SLHD) and is based on Aboriginal significant animals of SLHD. The principles of yoga and its philosophies merging with Aboriginal culture have been complementary, and this synergy was harnessed to develop the program. The program has had positive feedback to date and shows promise.
The accomplishments and lessons learned so far from the program can inform future practice and scale-up of the program. As it moves towards a digital platform, it has the potential to be adapted and tailored to suit other Aboriginal Nations, LHDs and ECECS across the state and beyond. SO WHAT?: Rolling the program out digitally would be a low-cost and equitable way to embed Aboriginal cultural learning into mainstream education and potentially positively affect the physical, mental and emotional well-being of children more broadly.
澳大利亚原住民和非原住民之间仍然存在巨大的健康差距。有效的健康促进项目以及原住民与非原住民服务机构之间的伙伴关系对于改善原住民健康状况、缩小不平等差距以及推动和解至关重要。
“贾朱姆斯连接”项目通过故事讲述、受瑜伽启发的动作和正念，在幼儿教育与护理服务（ECECS）中推广原住民文化。该项目由悉尼地方卫生区（SLHD）的原住民健康部门和健康促进部门合作开发，以SLHD的原住民重要动物为基础。瑜伽的原则及其哲学与原住民文化的融合具有互补性，这种协同作用被用于开发该项目。该项目迄今为止得到了积极反馈，并展现出前景。
该项目目前取得的成就和吸取的经验教训可为未来的实践和项目扩大提供参考。随着其向数字平台发展，它有可能进行调整和定制，以适应全州及其他地区的其他原住民群体、地方卫生区和幼儿教育与护理服务机构。那又如何？：以数字方式推广该项目将是一种低成本且公平的方式，可将原住民文化学习融入主流教育，并可能更广泛地对儿童的身心健康和情感幸福产生积极影响。
