Journal article
Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies: protocol for developmental evaluation of a comprehensive culturally responsive, trauma-aware, healing-informed, continuity of care(r) model
C Chamberlain, J Sundbery, L Segal, J Krakouer, M Langton, J Donnelly, J Kotz, E McEvoy, M Lyon, N Mucabel-Bue, A Karahalios, P Gray, E Gnanamanickam, C Atkinson, KA Jones, H Henderson, H Herrman, M Aboutalebi Karkavandi, A Elliott, G Bundle Show all
Frontiers in Public Health | Frontiers Media SA | Published : 2026
Abstract
Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience intergenerational trauma as a legacy of the impacts of colonisation. Replanting the Birthing Trees (RBT) aims to transform compounding cycles of intergenerational trauma and harm to positively reinforcing cycles of intergenerational nurturing and recovery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies. This paper describes the protocol for developmental evaluation of the culturally responsive, trauma-aware, healing-informed, continuity of care(r) model to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents during the first 2000 days (pregnancy, birth and the first 5 years after birth). Methods: The RBT projec..
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