Our Model of Care
Gindaja is an award winning, nationally recognised leader in the Indigenous AOD sector and has been dedicated to improving the health of Indigenous people for over 35 years.
Gindaja’s Model of Care (MOC) is well known and highly respected within the Yarrabah community and throughout the FNQ region, including the many remote communities from the Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands who have accessed the services of Gindaja over many years. Gindaja’s holistic model of person centred SEWB rehabilitation is the only community controlled, specialist AOD residential service in the FNQ region.
The Gindaja Model of Care highlights an Indigenous approach to AOD dependency and includes the overarching areas of education, treatment, recovery and healing. The Gindaja Model is operationalised through 5 program areas (Health Promotion & Education; Learning and Wellbeing; Residential Recovery; Step Up Recovery and After/Continuing Care) and includes a set of 8 best practice principles for working with Indigenous people and communities.
The MOC visually depicts the key elements and practice principles that shape and underpin the way Gindaja delivers its programs and services. The purpose of the MOC is to ‘set the standard’ and guide the work of the Gindaja Board, managers and all staff in providing education, treatment, recovery and healing services for people with alcohol and other drug related problems.
