Steven Torres-Carne, a Senior Project Office at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, has won the NT Men’s Health Award. 

Steven Torres-Carne, Senior Project Office at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, has been nominated for the 2019 NT Men’s Health Awards for his work in designing, developing and implementing healing programs for Indigenous men.

Over the past 16 years, the OzHelp Foundation has delivered workplace programs and support services targeting to ‘hard to reach’ men with a heightened risk of suicide.

An innovative research project that counters negative stereotypes about young Indigenous men has been shortlisted for a 2019 NT Men’s Health Award.

The Balanced Choice program is run by Adam Drake and Yianni Stefandakis, and rests on a range of activities that promote physical and mental health, predominantly working with young people in the youth justice space. It was born out of a school holiday program first trialled by Adam for youth in a Darwin correctional facility in July 2014.

Hoops 4 Health Aboriginal Corporation (H4H) aims to provide health education and referrals to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males while keep their minds and bodies active through the vehicle of basketball.

As the AMHF Health Card Report testifies, men in the Northern Territory are faring worse than males anywhere else in Australia.

The Life Itself Movement(LiT) in the Palmerston and Darwin region in the Northern Territory provides a safe space for men to connect with each other, discuss/ listen to successes of life, and support those who may be struggling with mental health issues, or who may be overcoming traumatic incidents. It was established and developed by local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men.

Run with Dad founder Katie Woolf wanted to raise awareness about prostate cancer after losing her father Rod to the disease in 2014.