14/05/2026
Today the Anindilyakwa Healing Centre team sat down with Dr Amanda Davies from 360edge and learned how to use the Model of Care so that we can keep doing good work with Anindilyakwa Men in a way that is consistent and based on evidence. Thanks Dr A!
Aboriginal Australians are incarcerated at staggering rates, with Aboriginal men making up 33% of the national prison population despite representing just 3% of all Australians. In the Northern Territory, that figure reaches 88%.
For the Anindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt, incarceration means family dislocation and significant cultural cost.
The Anindilyakwa Healing Centre, funded by the Department of the Northern Territory Attorney General, was established as a residential alcohol and other drug treatment service and therapeutic alternative to custody for Anindilyakwa men. It needed a model of care to guide service delivery.
360Edge partnered with Drug and Alcohol Services Australia (DASA) to develop it through a collaborative design process bringing together program participants, Anindilyakwa Elders who make up the Community Justice Group, local police, clinic doctors, community corrections and Northern Territory Government representatives.
The Anindilyakwa Healing Centre model of care reflects Anindilyakwa cultural values and evidence based best practice treatment approaches, with therapeutic jurisprudence at its core.
The Anindilyakwa Healing Centre now has a culturally grounded, practice ready model of care to build on as it moves toward Anindilyakwa governance and community led operations.
