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ANFPP's Melissa Kungul honoured with Student of the Year Award
Top End Health Services Aboriginal Family Partnership Worker Melissa Kungul was recently named as the recipient of the Student of the Year by the NT Government's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner Excellence Awards.
The award recognises the role that Aboriginal Health Workers and Aboriginal Health Practitioners play in helping to close the health gap by serving as the essential conduit between traditional and western health services. The awards are an opportunity to showcase outstanding members of these professional groups and acknowledge their significant contribution to families, communities and the healthcare system in the Northern Territory.
Melissa, who hails from the Wadeye community, has been working with the Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program
team for the last two years, where she works with young mums to support them with their newborn babies. Melissa is currently completing her qualifications to the Certificate Two in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care and she hopes to follow in the footsteps of her mother, who herself had previously worked as an Aboriginal Health Practitioner and was on hand to proudly witness this joyous achievement.
The ANFPP continues to support Melissa in pursuing her educational journey and looks forward to her continued growth within the ANFPP program.
Information about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner Excellence Awards and this year's recipients can be found here.
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The Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) National Support Service (NSS) acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands and waters on which we live and work. We pay respect to elders past and present. We further acknowledge that Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and communities are diverse and dynamic and continue to evolve and develop in response to historical and present social, economic, cultural and political circumstances.
Diversity includes gender, age, languages, backgrounds, sexual orientations, religious beliefs, family responsibilities, marriage status, life and work experiences, personality and educational levels (Commonwealth of Australia, 2013)