Solid Kids Solid Schools

The project has one big aim to reduce bullying behavior experienced by Aboriginal children attending school in the Midwest and Murchison region of Western Australia.

Then there three other aims that go with the main one.

One is to create ownership of the project with local community members of a Yamaji based program.

The second is to create ways to help Yamaji communities to reduce bullying by involving Aboriginal people in positive ways and in ways that will keep the project going.

The third is to develop a resource/program for our schools and our community groups which is right for us and our kids.

Solid Kids Solid Schools is funded by a Healthway grant to Prof Donna Cross at Edith Cowan University.  The whole team includes Juli Coffin, Gwen Rakabula, Peter Shaw and Ann Larson from CUCRH and Donna Cross, Lydia Hearn, Dionne Paki and Kevin Runions from  Edith Cowan University and Steve Zubrick, Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Sven Silburn and Colleen Hayward from the Institute for Child Health Research in Perth.   A Yamaji community reference group is providing guidance and direction.

For more information contact Juli Coffin, Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal Health at CUCRH.