It is a real honour for the work of Earbus Foundation to be acknowledged as a winner in the Outstanding Achievement category of The Australian Charity Awards 2021, which was announced on 28 October.
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After 3 years in our Northbridge offices our original lease is due to expire in mid-December, so Earbus Foundation has secured new premises in central Perth. Our transition will take place between now and mid-November as we move staff, equipment and our Audiology clinic into the new home.
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In late 2020 our Director of Research, Dr Carol Dowling interviewed 21 participants in a regional stakeholder initiative to capture authentic Aboriginal feedback on Earbus Foundation programs.
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Since October 2015 Earbus Foundation has provided Newborn Hearing Screening (NBHS) in the state’s private maternity hospitals under contract to the WA Department of Health through the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS). In total Earbus has screened just under 47,000 neonates and we can expect to screen our 50,000th baby in the not too distant future.
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At the end of May and through early June we will be migrating all staff and generic email addresses to MS Outlook. Email addresses will have .au appended so, for example, our office email will be admin@earbus.org.au. Watch out for our new addresses, coming soon!
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Professor Harvey Coates AO (Earbus Patron) presented the 2021 Libby Harricks Memorial Oration via webcast this month on Indigenous Ear and Hearing Health — Tackling the Silent Epidemic. Harvey’s lifelong interest in otitis media in Aboriginal children has included clinical outreach in remote Australia and the South Pacific, and working with WHO and national/international Committees. It was a great event in Perth hosted by Deafness Council WA and Telethon Kids Institute.
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I am a Yamatji woman and very passionate about health. Watching my Nanna and the impact she made helping Aboriginal children both at school and culturally made me want to help my mob but in a different way. I want to be a nurse in the near future. I am honoured to work for Earbus Foundation and be part of helping Indigenous children. I realise that improving Ear Health will improve children’s chance to learn and gain a better education, as my Nana intended.
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2020 will hold its place in world history for many decades to come as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and massive disruption across the globe. Like all health organisations Earbus Foundation was challenged on many fronts and was forced to re-think service delivery and how to protect staff, children, families and communities.
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100Women first supported Earbus Foundation in 2017 and this year invited previous successful applicants to re-submit in an invited Grant Round. We are delighted and excited to be awarded a $20,000 grant by the voting members of 100Women to deliver an Ear Health Ambassadors education program in 2021. Thanks 100Women!
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Earbus Foundation is excited to take first Australian delivery of a revolutionary ultrasound middle ear analyser developed in the USA, marketed as TOMi Scope. The TOMi Scope is an imaging tool for real time visualisation of the human eardrum and fluid or air within the middle ear space behind the drum.
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Earbus Foundation of WA is excited to welcome BHP as a major sponsor of our work in Aboriginal communities in the Pilbara, providing operational and capital funding. BHP funding allows Earbus Foundation to deliver Outreach Programs into the township of Newman and the remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong in the southern Pilbara region. The Outreach Program will deliver monthly Clinical visits to the schools in the region and deploy a fully-equipped customised Earbus that will be permanently located in Newman township.
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Earbus Foundation of WA is excited to present State of the Ears, a unique and detailed data snapshot from six years of working across regional and remote WA. The live presentation will feature three keynote speakers and an invited audience at the State Theatre Centre in Northbridge on 15th September.
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