Fred ready to study for remote nursing role

Clinical Nurse Fred Tamu has worked at Yarrabah Hospital for the past seven years and is preparing to hit the books again, so he can work remotely throughout Cape York and the Torres Strait islands.

Fred was part of a team that worked closely with the Indigenous community, treating ‘a mixture of everything’.

“I love it here. I enjoy working with different staff in Yarrabah and the community,” he said.

Fred enrolled to study his

RIPRN (Rural and Isolated Practice Registered Nurse), which will take him to far-flung settings of Far North Queensland, including his home on Warraber.

“Back in the good old days I used to be an Indigenous health worker up in the Torres for 21-plus years,” Fred said.

“I went through many trials and tribulations up there, from delivering a baby to resuscitating an adult.

“It’s all been a big roller-coaster and a big career change for me and I’m really happy where I am now.”

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Youth deaths linked to family violence

Australian youth who die by suicide after experiencing family violence are being let down by a system ill-equipped to identify and support their safety needs, a new joint report says.

Released last month, Missing Figures: The Role of Domestic and Family Violence in Youth Suicide, revealed how family violence risks were overlooked in Australian youth suicide reporting.

The report found young victim-survivors of family violence who sought help alone were at greater risk of considering and dying by suicide, and yet there were currently no national or state-wide specialist responses in Australia to support them.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reported suicide as the leading cause of death among young Australians between 2018 to 2020 – 38 per cent of the deaths of people aged 15 to 24 were by suicide.

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Mission Head of Policy, Advocacy and Government Relations Shorna Moore said the impacts of family violence on children and young people were

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Important: overlooked through responses designed to address adult intimate partner violence.

“This failure to support young victimsurvivors and link young deaths by suicide with the family violence they endured has fatal consequences and keeps the problem hidden,” Ms Moore said.

Monash University’s Gender Family Violence and Prevention Centre director Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon said the needs of children and young people who experienced family violence had to be better considered in the design and delivery of domestic and family violence service responses.

Griffith University lead author Professor Silke Meyer said a specialised service system for victim survivors aged 12 to 24 was needed to support our youth, and potentially save lives.

The research was a collaboration with Griffith University, Monash University, Melbourne City Mission and Berry Street Y-Change.

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