Have a look at our Aboriginal resources developed with the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO). Watch videos on Feltman®, Feltmum® and healthy eating. Order our picture guides or catch up on local activities through our Grapevine newsletter.

Feltman

Feltman® is a diabetes teaching tool made by the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) and Diabetes Victoria. Feltman is designed to help health professionals explain diabetes in a way that is easy to understand. Feltman can be used with individuals and community groups, as a one-way demonstration or as a two-way interactive workshop.

Feltman is available in two sizes:

  • Large - 2m x 90cm (life size)
  • Small – 140 cm x 40 cm (for appointments, home visits or small groups)

Feltman features:

Printed fabric human body mat with anatomically correct organs: 

  • Stick-on attachments (including insulin keys, locks, glucose discs, ketone discs, fat discs, LDL cholesterol triangles, retinas and kidney cross sections)
  • Stick-on organ labels
  • Prompt cards (including risk factors, symptoms, prevention, complications, management, foods and eyes)
  • USB stick loaded with the Feltman manual and instructional video
  • Storage bag

Our diabetes in pregnancy add-on kit, Feltmum, is also available.

We run free training on how to use Feltman.

You can also view our Feltman training video

Please visit our online shop to find out more, including information on how to order and pricing.

Feltman® and Feltmum® are registered trademarks of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and Diabetes Victoria
 

Feltmum

Feltmum® is a diabetes in pregnancy add-on kit for the Feltman resource developed by Diabetes Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO). Feltmum is designed to help health professionals explain diabetes in pregnancy in a way that is easy to understand.

Each Feltmum kit includes:

  • Stick-on printed fabric baby
  • Stick-on fabric wig
  • Stick-on attachments (including pregnancy hormone discs, large glucose discs, large insulin keys and small insulin keys)
  • Prompt cards 
  • USB stick loaded with the Feltmum key messages and instructional video
  • Plastic carry sleeve

We run free training on how to use Feltman.

You can view our Feltmum training video

Please visit our online shop to find out more, including information on how to order and pricing.

Feltman® and Feltmum® are registered trademarks of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and Diabetes Victoria
 

Pictorial guides

The pictorial guides are booklets developed with the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) that help explain diabetes information in a culturally tailored and an easy to understand way. The guides have lots of pictures and tips for staying healthy.

The pictorial guides are:

Healthy eatingExercise and diabetesManaging my diabetesMy feet and diabetes

Diabetes in pregnancy

Healthy eatingExercise and diabetes
Managing my diabetesMy feet and diabetes
Diabetes in pregnancy

You can order the guides from our online shop (please choose ‘Koorie’ from the drop down menu) or call 1300 437 386.

The guides are $1.00 each or 75c for Diabetes Victoria members.

Pictorial guides are available in other languages.

If you have any questions about the pictorial guides please email culturaldiversity@diabetesvic.org.au
 

Risk Test

The Diabetes Risk Assessment tool has been adapted for the Aboriginal community to help identify people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. People with a score of 12 or higher on the diabetes risk test and are aged 18 years or over are eligible to join the Road to Good Health course
 

Grapevine

Grapevine is a quarterly newsletter for health workers and others working in the Aboriginal community.

Grapevine includes information about:

  • Diabetes news
  • New and current programs at Diabetes Victoria
  • New and current resources
  • Events and activities
  • Healthy recipes

Grapevine is available to view online

To subscribe to this newsletter please email culturaldiversity@diabetesvic.org.au

Other resources

Fighting Diabetes in Your Community

Diabetes Australia has developed information about the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) specifically for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

The materials, including videos, posters and information flyers, explain:

  • The different kinds of support available to people who sign up for the NDSS
  • How the NDSS can help people and communities to live well with diabetes
  • How the NDSS helps to provide a more accurate picture of diabetes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia
     

The Diabetes Story (DVD)

The Diabetes Story (DVD) was made by the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. It is a moving picture story in three Central Australian Aboriginal languages (Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri and Arrernte) and English.  
 

Healthy Tucker Card for reading food and drink labels

The Healthy Tucker Card for reading food and drink labels is a wallet sized card that can be used to compare food and drinks based on the nutrition information on the label.
 

Tucker Talk Tips

Tucker Talk Tips are a series of culturally appropriate physical activity and healthy eating factsheets developed by Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (VACCHO) and the Victorian Government.

The factsheets are:

Rethink Sugary Drinks

The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) and Rethink Sugary Drink partnered to highlight the health problems associated with drinking sugary drinks and to encourage the Victorian Aboriginal community to 'rethink' their consumption of sugary drinks.

The website includes facts, tips and videos on sugary drinks.
 

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet is a web resource that aims to inform practice and policy in Indigenous health by providing an easily accessible evidence base via the internet.