Mooditj means “solid” or if you look in the dictionary of Urban Slang it means “the best”. It is also the name of a sexual health and positive lifestyle program for indigenous kids from 11-14 years. FPWA Sexual Health Services in Western Australia run several training sessions on this course each year.
I could not attend the last camp Ngaanyatjarra Health held, but attended and presented at the camp in 2005. A great few days, but the relationships with youth and family I developed then continue on to today. FWPA produce a Mooditj newsletter and there is also a video presentation that explains what it is all about.
we have gone a bit further this year. A while ago I posted a job ad for a male youth health educator. This is to work on a program called officially the “Improving the Sexual health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth Demonstration Project”, but we call it the “Kungkaku Yangupalaku Healthy Relationships Project”.
This is one of six prgrams being run across Australia. 
These will be evaluated by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) at the conclusion of the programs. If found to be successful I hope funds continue to be made available, rather than just another piece of research.
The first newsletter from the project is available here (600kb file – I apologise for the white blocks around the text – these appeared while shrinking the file from 2MB).
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