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Visionaries:

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress contracted Inception Strategies to develop an Aboriginal Men’s Health Comic that shows men how it is possible to live without alcohol and be empowered by close connections to their family.

Workshops:

Inception Strategies held workshops at Ingkintja Congress Male Health Service, Alice Springs, NT, where Aboriginal men developed a storyline for the comic.

Production:

Damian Mark Chris Liz

Jintaiquan Jessica Jaymes Niki

Thanks:

Thanks to Michelle and Kerry at The Department of Health and Ageing.

Workshops, Script, Creative Supervision Workshop notes Script Character and Environment references Pencils/Inks Colours Letters Pre-Press

Thanks to John Liddle and the team at Ingkintja.

Aboriginal men developed this storyline as a gift to all the Nowungas and their families out there.

Damian Amamoo, CEO, Inception Strategies

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INGKINTJA

A meeting place for men Ingkintja is a focus point for male health in central Australia.

It provides a holistic health service where Aboriginal males access a range of services in a culturally safe, male-only environment.

Males come to meet and discuss their needs and aspirations.

Many take advantage of our clinical services through our general practitioner, nurse and psychology staff. Less formal engagement in health is provided through preventative health and life-skills presentations as well as construction, cooking, gardening, bush food trips, bush medicine and sporting activities. Cultural health is renewed through the respect given elders as they offer their guidance and through support to ceremonial camps. Ingkintja also has a regional and national role in advocating for the needs of Aboriginal males and provides a cultural brokering service for governments and NGO’s.

Our logo shows men (in black) sitting down with younger males and non-Aboriginal males to talk, listen and learn about health.

Ceremonially, we wear a layer of white cockatoo feathers that allow our true personalities to come out. Two spears are available to be used as tools for destroying danger, a shield for protection and boomerangs as symbols of extending friendship.

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC) is a pioneering, community controlled medical service providing a range of services to Aboriginal people in Central Australia.

Ingkintja Congress Male Health Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Inc 19 Gap Rd Alice Springs http://www.caac.org.au/male_health.html Telephone: 08 8958 4567 Fax: 08 8951 4493

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Thanks to the following talented men for their assistance in developing the storyline: Edward Brown, Warren Conway, Samuel Nelson, Herbert Robertson, Ray Robertson, Everard Malbunka, Baden Williams and Gregory Crowson

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