Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation recently finished construction of their purpose-designed medical services facility at Hunter Street, Heywood, bringing to fruition their community’s long-held and nurtured vision for a culturally safe, accessible and fully integrated community health practice. The facility is now fully operational.
The design process for the new facility was influenced and shaped by invaluable inputs from staff, clients and community to ensure spaces are functional, comfortable and tranquil, and includes general practice, nurse and clinical treatment stations, and consulting spaces for specialists to provide mental health and wellbeing, optometry and other important health services.
The $4.5 million project received $1.5 million from the Aboriginal Community Infrastructure Program (ACIP), with funding co-contributions of $1.7 million from the Victorian Health Building Authority and $1.3 million from Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation themselves.
The Hon. Natalie Hutchins, Minister for Treaty and First People, toured the new Heywood health facility on Wednesday 12 March.
Local Government Victoria delivers ACIP in partnership with First Peoples–State Relations in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
Photographs courtesy of Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation and Mossop Construction and Interiors.
For more information about Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation visit: www.windamara.com.au/
For more information about ACIP visit: www.firstpeoplesrelations.vic.gov.au/aboriginal-community-infrastructure-program
