Mt Theo story 1999 - Tribal Elders working with petrol sniffers
Details:
Title
Mt Theo story 1999 - Tribal Elders working with petrol sniffers,
Creator
Stojanovski, Andrew,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Date
1999,
Location
Mount Theo,
Yuendumu,
Description
"The Mount Theo Petrol Sniffer Program aims to remove young people who are at risk (such as chronic petrol sniffers and young offenders) from Yuendumu to a safe environment out bush where they are looked after by
tribal elders. When they are ready these young people then move back to rejoin the Yuendumu Community. This program has been operating successfully over the last five years and has been working closely with the
local Yuendumu Police and the Northern Territory Correctional Services Office in Alice Springs." - Program Overview,
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
Table of contents
Program overview -- Getting started -- What was likely to occur if we did not try to stop petrol sniffing -- Why do kids sniff petrol in Yuendumu? -- How the program works -- Outcomes of the Mt Theo Program -- Aboriginal ownership, healing and cultural maintenance -- Challenges - self autonomy: the right to sniff -- The idea of a By-Law -- Results -- Chronic sniffers -- What holds the program together -- Bibliography,
Language
English,
Subject
Petrol sniffing,
Substance abuse,
Rehabilitation centres,
Aboriginal Australians,
Publisher name
Publisher not known,
Place of publication
Place not known,
Format
29 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.,
File type
application/pdf.,
Copyright owner
Check within Publication or with content Publisher.,