Indigenous Psychological Services

Indigenous Psychological Services has been involved in the development, delivery and review of Aboriginal specific mental health intervention programs since 2002 with the aim of addressing the disproportionate rates of mental illness within rural and remote Aboriginal communities. Whilst IPS has provided a significant amount of work in the area of suicide prevention, programs have also been delivered across other areas such as trauma management, anger management, conflict resolution, family violence and so forth. IPS have emphasized the process of how they engage with Aboriginal communities, achieve sustainability of outcomes and ensure that retention of information occurs long term, rather than focusing too heavily on being content driven. Good content can be delivered badly and bad content can be delivered well. It is clear that the process of how you deliver programs is always the most important ingredient to success in Aboriginal communities. IPS has demonstrated this through the success of their programs in a field which has very few success stories to tell.  The most notable of these are: