Yaama. My name is Myron and my mob is mainly from the Walcha and Armidale areas in inland New South Wales, which is on the countries of the Anaiwan and Dhanggati nations.
My current role at Hunter Primary Care has helped me understand how mental health and wellbeing can be affected by many factors including trauma and that it can affect everyone. The opportunity to be in this role has helped me to gain knowledge via a yarn with the person I am supporting, as well as the supporting services about mental health and wellbeing. I provide walk along-side support and person-centred recovery, to help our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to understand their own mental health and wellbeing journey. I work hard to reduce the stigma of mental health by providing a culturally safe space, guidance and encouragement to access suitable and appropriate supports to gain help and support with mental health and wellbeing. I love this role.
My passion has always been to see our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people both living and passing through the Newcastle and surrounding areas to have and gain access to supports and services. This access will help with improving opportunities in education and employment, housing, as well as looking after, improving and gaining knowledge to look after their own mental health and wellbeing, general health and also spiritual health and growth.
I support our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people having success in employment across all industries and encourage our mobs to share our cultural, personal and lived experiences where needed, to help our mobs and our healing and to inspire positive change in and for our mobs and our greater communities.