While in Cherbourg I stopped by the Cherbourg Regional Aboriginal and Islander Community Controlled Health Services (CRAICCHS).
CRAICCHS provides a bulk billing general practice clinic and service centre of holistic health, wellbeing and community support to the Cherbourg and South Burnett Communities. They offer a range of services including general medical, dental, allied health including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, dietician and podiatry, audiology, optometry, chiropractic, diabetes education and a pharmacy. They also offer a range of programs directed towards womens, mens, and family health issues, as well as social and emotional wellbeing, substance use and misuse, and sexual health.
Given all the walking I’m doing I was particularly interested in their Healthy for Life Program. Targetted towards people with or at risk of developing chronic diseases, the Healthy for Life Program aims to get people eating better, more active, and more engaged with local health services. Its aim is to reduce the risk factors and/or decrease the chances of worsening symptoms associated with chronic diseases.
If you’re an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in or around Cherbourg, check out CRAICCHS to see what they have to offer: https://www.craicchs.org/
Next stop is to the north-west and its going to take me a couple of days to get there.
