Meet the board

• To provide a holistic approached Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) so as to more
appropriately address the needs of local Aboriginal Communities and provide more direct

Maaruma-Li AMS relief from sickness, destitution, distress, suffering, socio-somatic Illness, and helplessness for those persons;

• To improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of local Aboriginal Community members
so as to more appropriately address the needs of the Aboriginal Community and provide
more direct relief from sickness, destitution, distress, suffering, socio-somatic Illness, and
helplessness for those persons;

• To provide Aboriginal Community members with access to quality and appropriate and
accessible primary health care services and programs;

• To seek ongoing funding for wages, programs, renovations, and capital;

• To strive to ensure that this Aboriginal Community health organisation maintains self-
determination;

• To work collectively in network with other local Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Services and National and State health departments and agencies in implementing
programs and initiatives that seek to redress ill-health amongst members of local Aboriginal
Communities;

•To assist, as necessary, other regional fledgling Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Services with advice, experience, training, and support, but not in any way to intrude upon
their self-determination or to enforce compliance into auspice structures that usurp their
Community autonomy but rather to support disparate local Aboriginal Communities
themselves to redress ill-health within their Aboriginal Community;

•To inform Government departments, key organisations, and other agencies on issues
affecting health within local Aboriginal Communities to address the needs of local Aboriginal
Communities and provide direct relief from ill-health.

•To advocate on issues of concern and to provide health and counselling services to
Aboriginal members of the Stolen Generations and their descendants to address the needs
of local Aboriginal Communities and provide direct relief from distress and suffering;

•To identify training needs for staff and management of the Corporation to access or arrange
relevant and appropriate training to allow staff to better address the needs of local Aboriginal
Communities and provide direct relief; and

•To use and advance the use of Aboriginal Religion as a guiding principle in the Aboriginal
Community to address sociological issues, socio-somatic illness and negative factors
contributing to ill-health and psychological trauma within local Aboriginal Communities.