3.3 Case Studies
Scotdesco Aboriginal Corporation
Evaluating governance through risk assessments
Scotdesco’s objectives are to provide employment, housing, education and training, social and recreation activities and health and welfare services and opportunities for people of Aboriginal descent who live or work in Bookabie, South Australia.
Scotdesco evaluates its work through risk assessments of what’s working, what’s not working and what needs to improve. This evaluation is conducted on a board level, staff level and a community level. Scotdesco has a commitment to achieving realistic goals, outlined in their Community Action Plans, by carefully analysing new proposals, conducting research and learning from past experiences.
Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation
Overcoming challenges
Western Desert Dialysis was established by people from the Pintupi Luritja language group to improve the lives of people suffering from end stage renal failure and to strengthen families and communities by helping people to return home to their remote communities on dialysis.
Western Desert Dialysis’s biggest challenge has been to develop a model of care which fulfilled cultural imperatives as well as fulfilling the expectations of mainstream health service delivery. Additionally, they faced the challenge of gaining government support and sustaining high levels of excellent service delivery. WDNWPT overcame these obstacles by engaging in constant dialogue with stakeholders, embedding cultural priorities in everything they did and involving patients and their families in designing models of care.