Announcing my Aust first paper on Indigenous youth mental health & suicide behaviour clinical norms that reveals 1 in 4 Indigenous youth have attempted suicide and 42% have suicidal thoughts (N=1,266). This research has all been SELF FUNDED. WHY? Because this is the FIRST STEP

Haha. I managed to matchy match with my Jilya cover ❤️

Wow! The incredible reviews for my memoir Jilya just keep coming! This time it’s the Sydney Morning Heralds non fiction pick-another goosebumps review ❤️💛🖤

Some days those 6am starts aren’t fun…but dragging myself out of bed always pays off. Mind-body-heart ❤️ Running gives me all the feels 🥰 Happy Saturday folks

Families told young ones have 'gone walkabout' in response to missing person reports. This disgusting racism gets no public or political attention. It ensures police & systems continue to respond to missing Aboriginal ppl with indifference apple.news/AIWXGw9DDTguq8…

The debate was “rigged” Of course it was 🤦‍♀️ Everything Trump loses is rigged He got a whopping 7 more mins to talk than Kamala Harris-but hey. Rigged.

I think my new glasses make me look like I’m a legit writer 😬😎 (Been squinting through a lot of book reads 😂)

Absolutely massive week this week! First up I’m delivering two days of workshops in Adelaide on “Beyond cultural competency to Behavioural change” then my Adelaide Jilya book launch to a packed 450 sold out audience on Tuesday night-then a Keynote address on Wednesday for the

20 years ago I validated the first & only culturally codesigned and scientifically valid screening tools for at risk Aboriginal ppl. I’ve recently published two more papers which are Aust firsts and which give us our greatest opportunity to close the gap-this includes the first

Tracy knows her stuff. Way past time we used it!

Dr Tracy Westerman AM Snow Leopard from Nepal What a disgrace the racist inhumane WA Govt is, ignoring Indigenous Academics (you) & culturally appropiate statergies to save the lives of Aboriginal ppl. thewestaustralian WGAR News👣 #GrassRoots #AboriginalVoices #WGARmob Roger Cook Senator Dorinda Cox Senator Lidia Thorpe NITV blakandblack ABC Indigenous

Imagine if a white male developed this tool…let alone developed the first mental health prevalence data base; accredited 50,000 practitioners in them; digitised the tools to ensure we can capture data in real time across Australia on the mental health of Aboriginal ppl for the

Trying to get ahead of the book signing for Tuesdays Adelaide launch. Doing 200 tonight 😳😳

This is the disgrace that is Government, Academia, etc - with effective tools available, for 20 years, they look the other way - the result - hundreds if not thousands dead - governments / organisations make choices which have consequences