Healthy Homes in the Thamarrurr Region

At Healthy Homes, our focus is on improving housing, living conditions, and environmental health in Wadeye. Our collaborative approach brings together local organizations such as the health clinic, safe house, aged care, and other service providers to address community safety and key health issues.

Through this program, we ensure that services work together seamlessly with clear channels of communication, enabling us to efficiently tackle a range of different health issues.

Our team at Healthy Homes includes service providers such as the clinic, Save the Children, CatholicCare, aged care, safe house, NDIS, and others. They have the ability to provide referrals to community members and the Healthy Homes team if they become aware of any issues.

In addition to addressing health concerns, Healthy Homes also provides jobs and professional development opportunities for local staff. We believe in building the capacity and awareness of community members through education and support in maintaining a healthy home.

Healthy Homes Program

The Healthy Homes Program is proudly supported by CDP, collaborates with communities in the Thamarrurr region to keep themselves, their home, yard, and community clean, tidy, disease & pest free.

Home Hygiene

The program is designed to provide training for effective home cleaning & yard maintenance processes and supplying an initial basic cleaning pack including equipment and products.

Our Healthy Homes lady’s team will spend time with the householders to explain about the products we are supplying them with and how to use them most effectively. They will also go over the importance of having access to, and keeping bathrooms, toilets, and laundries clean and functioning.

If there is a need for laundry services, the Cleaning Hub team can advise when one of the Orange Sky laundry vehicles will be in each area and assist families in getting their laundry done. The driers within the vehicles are more effective than the sun in killing scabi mites from bedding, blankets, and clothing.

This service is available in Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa).

Yard Improvements

Our Healthy Homes men’s team support the Home Hygiene project but collaborating with householders to clean up and maintain their yard. This is important in reducing the risk of fire, snakes, and other not so friendly pests.

If yard maintenance support is requested, the house holders will be provided with garbage bags to clear up any rubbish. Once all the rubbish is gone, the Healthy Homes yard maintenance team will return with mowers and whipper snippers and with the men of the home working with them, will get things tidied up.

Yard improvement jobs include:

• Rubbish removal

• Mowing and whipper-snipping lawns

• Basic repairs to fences & gates

The yard maintenance team is extremely busy, especially during the wet and are only able to support homes where the family actively participate in the work needed.

This service is available in Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa). Other Communities where possible, on request.

Pest Control

Keeping your home clean, free of food scraps, dirty linen, clothing, and personal hygiene products assists in reducing the infestation of pests in your house and many issues to you and your family’s health created by these pests.

Even with your best efforts to keep things clean and tidy, sometimes it needs a visit from the Healthy Homes men’s team who now offer pest control treatments aimed to eradicate a range of household pests including cockroaches, ants, spiders, ticks, mice & rates with the use of chemicals and non-chemical management.

This service is available in Wadeye and Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa). Other Communities where possible, on request.

NOTE:

This service is a ‘fee for service’ offer but at the discretion of the Healthy Homes Coordinator, may be included as part of a home clean training visit.

Animal Management

Our Healthy Homes Men’s team are working with AMRRIC (Animal Management in Rural & Remote Indigenous Communities) to manage the health of your animals.

Four times a year, the team will get together to provide a community-wide anti-parasitic treatment for all domestic pets, while tracking the domestic pet population for future care.

This treatment helps reduce the case of worms, heart worms, ticks, and mange. It increases the general wellbeing of our local pets and in turn, increases the health of our families.

In collaboration with AMRRIC, we are now able to assist with a range of more serious health issues. For support, click here.

Twice a year, the AMRRIC veterinary team come from Darwin to provide additional services, including surgical de-sexing. Once confirmed, the dates for these visits will be promoted with posters throughout community. Bookings are essential.

Repairs and Maintenance

When your home is need of repair or maintenance, please report it to TDC Housing & Construction and NT Housing & Tenancy for assistance.

This service is available in all Wadeye, Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa), Nama, Wudapuli & Peppimenarti.

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