Nangnak Wan Myeek

Overview

Support through this program includes:

• help accessing services, e.g. breastfeeding support and paediatrics
• support for families whose babies have been admitted to special care nursery or neonatal intensive care unit
• attending your postnatal home visits with a nurse
• advising on healthy child development, e.g. breastfeeding and immunisations
• linking you with local Aboriginal organisations and additional government supports
• helping you through difficult situations, e.g. those involved with DHHS Child Protection.

We also help you connect with Maternal and Child Health Services at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service or through mainstream community health services and local councils

Nangnak Wan Myeek means “Nurture, Care, Look after me and Mine”. This name was chosen by Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin in the Woirwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, whose traditional land MHW is located.