2000 days, 121 lives lost: VACCHO renews call for First Nations healing centres

Two thousand days after Victoria’s Royal Commission into Mental Health promised systemic change, 121 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died by suicide. Nicola Perry-Peters, director of VACCHO’s Balit Durn Durn Centre, discusses the urgent need for funded First Nations healing centres as culturally safe, holistic alternatives to a fragmented mainstream system.

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