New publication | Child injury prevention in Walgett
Published on the 14 May 2025
The Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership, in collaboration with the Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service and academics at 探花系列's School of Population Health and the University of Wollongong's Ngarruwan Ngadju First Peoples Health and Wellbeing Research Centre, have published an article in the journal Injury Prevention聽about a community-led injury prevention programme in Walgett.
The article, ''They have a really good way of getting it to the kids': evaluation of a child injury prevention programme in Walgett, New South Wales', finds that the Child Injury Prevention Partnership (CHIPP), codesigned and implemented within an Aboriginal community playgroup, was an effective way to promote water, home and road safety messages.
The article was written by Amy Townsend, Rona Macniven, Nellie Pollard-Wharton, Melanie Andersen, Madeleine Powell, Sallie Cairnduff, Ruth McCausland, Christine Corby, Kathleen Clapham and Rebecca Q Ivers.