What is culturally appropriate care for victim-survivors of domestic violence?

The Canberra Times

Remi King, a specialist First Nations support worker says the only proper way to support her Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients is through culturally appropriate, trauma informed care.

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00:00 So in our everyday work with our clients, there's a lot of one-on-one contact with our women.

00:05 And a lot of the times if I'm working with an Aboriginal woman and she's coming from a background

00:10 where she might not have an education, maybe she finished high school, maybe she didn't,

00:15 maybe she's over the age of 50 or 60. I'm using a Bogan Occa way of speaking. I'm dropping F-bombs

00:24 and C-bombs and we're talking about the frustration of the system and I'm meeting her at where she's

00:30 at there. I'm not trying to tell her to be professional or appropriate and use nice language

00:36 because what she's been through is not nice. So the best way for me to connect with this woman

00:41 to provide culturally appropriate care is to use all these different mechanisms of language,

00:47 of sharing culture and sharing stories so that we can get an end result that's good for her.

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