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Adopting strength-based approaches reinstates power and control to Aboriginal communities, while nurturing decision making in the design and delivery of culturally contextualised approaches to addressing Aboriginal health and well-being. Aboriginal health policy and practice continues to address Aboriginal child health and well-being from a whole-of-population deficit discourse, exac-erbating disadvantage for Aboriginal children and young people. Furthermore, population health-level data provides an opportu nity to understand the complexities of health and well-being for urban Aboriginal children and young people, yet such information is rarely documented due to the size of the population of interest or the incapacity of services to undertake additional internal data analysis. This paper discusses the development of multi-disciplinary community-based Aboriginal child health services in an urban community using strengths-based principles. We highlight the opportunities and challenges in addressing Aboriginal child health over a 10-year period and demonstrate that access to culturally safe, resilience-building services can produce measurable improvements in health-seeking behaviour, maternal health, and early intervention. We draw on holistic frameworks to demonstrate that optimal outcomes can be achieved through integrated interdisciplinary models of care that are responsive to the needs of the local community, understand the social determinants of health and build resilience-all critically important to addressing Aboriginal child health and well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To examine the need, feasibility and acceptability of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) implementing a systematic, routine, unmet social needs identification and referral pathway, as a means of promoting health equity and addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Quality Improvement methodologies were used to adapt and pilot an unmet social needs identification and referral pathway for use with parents/carers of children with communication disabilities referred to an urban Australian speech-language pathology service. SLPs were surveyed about the acceptability and feasibility of this practice. The majority of parents/carers, 289 of 293 (99%), agreed to participate in the study, with 31 of the 289 (11%) reporting concerns about unmet social needs. The most common unmet need related to household bills (n = 17, 28%), followed by childcare (n = 12, 20%), employment (n = 10, 16%), food (n = 8, 13%), housing (n = 7, 11%), and parent/carer education (n = 7, 11%). The majority of these families, 26 of 31 (84%), requested referral to, or information about, local community services/resources. SLPs reported high levels of acceptability (93%) and feasibility (98%). This study demonstrates the need, feasibility and acceptability of SLPs implementing an unmet social needs identification and referral pathway, and the potential to scale this initiative across other speech-language pathology services and allied health contexts. This paper focusses on SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 10, SDG 11, SDG 16, and also addresses SDG 17. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]