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National Empowerment Project – Abigail Bray

National Empowerment Project

The National Empowerment Project aims to reduce suicide, psychological and community distress by strengthening cultural, social and emotional wellbeing in communities through targeted place-based, culturally safe holistic empowerment programs. Delivered across 11 sites in Australia, the NEP is an outstanding example of Indigenous self-determination in the field of suicide prevention and mental health. Involvement in the NEP included focus groups, analysis of data, dissemination of findings, and the creation of 5  mental health and social and emotional wellbeing videos as script editor and creative director.

Dudgeon, P., Bray, A. & Walker, R. (2020). Self-determination and strengths-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention: An emerging evidence-based approach. (pp. 237-256) Page, A. C., & Stritzke W. G. K. (Eds.) Alternatives to suicide: Beyond risk and toward a life worth living. London: Elsivier.

Dudgeon, P., Bray, A., Walker, R. & Darlaston-Jones, D. (2020). Aboriginal Participatory Action Research: An Indigenous Research Methodology Strengthening Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Decolonisation, Discussion Paper, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne.

Dudgeon, P. & Bray, A., D’Costa, B. & Walker, R. (2017). De-colonising psychology: Validating social and emotional wellbeing. Australian Psychologist, 52(4), 316- 325.