00:02Shanton Leifo helps people in Yarrabah navigate cancer.
00:07After 15 years working all across Australia, it's a job that's brought him home.
00:13I can't put it into words giving back to my community.
00:17It's like a sense of calling and coming back home.
00:19He works as part of a federally funded program aimed at improving health outcomes in the town.
00:25And so we're looking at that continuum and supporting those people from community, again by local community people.
00:31Cultural safety is core, while he helps residents going through treatment.
00:37Colin Costello survived cancer and believes working with the local community when it comes to care is important.
00:45Yeah, Yarrabah can make their own decisions. There's a lot of people who are good at making decisions.
00:53Yarrabah is just 50 minutes from Cairns, but the road out is steep, the houses are overcrowded,
00:59and it's Australia's fifth most disadvantaged area socio-economically, leading to unique health challenges.
01:06We think about 80% of the presentations to our clinic have some social determinants root cause.
01:11A community answering the challenges.
01:14Many black people are like,
01:15I am Yarrabah, the people of Yarrabah.
01:20Thank you very much for your time.
01:22Thank you very much for your time.
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