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Disability Support for Aboriginal people        4
DISABILITY SUPPORT FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Analysis    3
Conclusion    10
References    11
Introduction
    The aboriginal people with disabilities are the most disadvantaged people in the Australian community. These people face numerous blockades while participating in the community. When people face disability by birth, due to accident or illness, then the disaster and sufferings is for the whole life. Hence, these people necessitate services along with resources as support for accomplishing their daily objectives. I work as a disability support worker in First People Disability Network (FPDN), Australia for the Aboriginal and To
es Strait Islander people in Australia. The FPDN is a top-class organization which raises voice for the aboriginal and To
es strait Islander people who are living with disabilities along with supporting the elders, their families and the people of the indigenous community. For delivering support to the aboriginal people there are various strategies used by FPDN in which we are professionally trained. These strategies are collaborating and providing advice to the government, delivering education to the government and private sectors in meeting the requirement of the aboriginal people with disability along with the caring of the elders based on community driven research. Further, FPDN also provides various types of training program, resources such as films and mobcasts aimed towards the aboriginal community, legal advice for getting regular benefits for the aboriginal people and advocacy and also engages with the Royal Commission for fighting against violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect of the aboriginal people suffering from disability (FPDN, 2021). Thus, the aim of FPDN is to create a respectful relationship using yarning or dialogue circle for the aboriginal disabled people in Australia.
Analysis
    The necessity to provide a culturally safe environment for the health and disability support of the aboriginal people is being recognized. But the people delivering services in the remote areas faces tremendous challenges due to limited resources, geographic disadvantages and various infrastructural challenges. Approximately 3.3% of the Australian population consists of the aboriginal people. Further, 20% of this population is living in the remote areas (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2018). These people face high rate of impairment and merge quality of life in comparison to the non-indigenous people (Avery & First Peoples Disability Network, 2018). Further, the report shows intellectual disabilities among the aboriginal people to be around 7% (Roy & Balaratnasingam, 2014). The aboriginal people also have various necessities which are not met in terms of accessing the services (Biddle et al., 2014).
    It was the rising colonial impact of the aboriginal people which has impacted the cultural safety and responsiveness with respect to the modern practice (Mackean et al., 2020). The concept of cultural safety is edifice in the nursing and healthcare practices which emphasizes on the negative impact of colonization and the imbalances of power with respect to the health, socioeconomic situation and their wellbeing (Mackean et al., 2020). Hence, cultural safety is targeted towards delivering services to the disabled, elders and the children and families of the aboriginal community based on values and beliefs, being aware of the ways the culture and the authority have an influence on the interactions and act in a manner which respects other cultures and make them feel safe and well. Hence, it is essential to implement the cultural safety at institutional and individual level with respect to the delivery of disabled aboriginal care services (Taylor & Thompson Guerin, 2019).     The culturally responsive framework will emphasize on a culturally safe care by respect for significance of beliefs, self-awareness, leadership, accountability, proactiveness and inclusive meeting    for development at organizational and at individual level (IAHA, 2019).
    According to a census it was observed that the Aboriginal people have high disability rates where the children under the age of 14 are more than twice suffers from disability. Also, the adults between the age 35 to 54 years are 2.7 times more likely to suffer from disability in comparison to the disabled people from the non-indigenous community. The majority of disability among the aboriginal community are loss of hearing and intellectual disability. The aboriginal children under the age of 15 years are 3.4 times deaf and nearly 4 times likely to suffer from intellectual disability compared to the general population of Australia (Absec, 2022).
    During my working as a caregiver in FPDN delivering healthcare support to the disabled aboriginal people, I discovered that these people suffer from worse health conditions along with meagre social and economic outcomes compared to the non-indigenous people of Australia (National People with Disabilities and Carer Council, 2009). Combined with these factors, it’s the government policies of denial and racial discrimination which have led the aboriginal people to be considered as the most disadvantaged socio-economic group in Australia. It is also observed that there is chronic illness which is most prevalent among the aboriginal community impacting the younger population of the community. Also, there is widespread poverty, lack of education, unemployment forcing the aboriginal people to live in rented and overcrowded places (Statistics, A.B.o, 2016). Due to these disparities, the disabled aboriginal suffers throughout their life course. Further, the carers who are from the aboriginal communities are underpaid compared to the non-indigenous carers. This results in income disparities leading to poor socio-economic conditions of the aboriginal people (Hunter, Gray, and Crawford, 2016).
    The aboriginal people have a distrust in the government services due to consistent level of abuse by the government. It is due to this fear and collective negative experiences faced by the aboriginal people while availing services from the public agencies, that they deter to visit the government hospitals for getting services such as medical treatment, education or avail the employment opportunities. These issues of the disabled people in aboriginal community needs to be recognized, understood and respected. This can be done through proper funding and financial assistance, delivering aboriginal controlled services which are operated wholly by the staff members from the aboriginal community. Along with this it is...