‘A powerful concept’: VACCHO and Think HQ draw upon Indigenous history for Aboriginal health recruitment campaign

The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) has released a campaign to inspire Indigenous Australians to leverage their over 60,000 years of rich history for a career in Aboriginal health, via Think HQ.

A component of VACCHO’s Victoria Aboriginal Health & Wellbeing Workforce Strategy 2022-26, the powerful platform seeks to bring more First Nations peoples into the Aboriginal wellbeing and health sector, by reminding them that their 65,000 years of history makes them more than qualified to deliver health-related services than anyone else.

To develop the work and its premise ‘You have 65,000 years of experience. Start a career in Aboriginal health today’, Think HQ worked closely with various Indigenous communities and personnel, including stakeholders, general practitioners, workers in the emotional wellbeing, health and social spaces, and midwives.