Component

Reasons Why

Benefits

• Importance of context to ‘understand’ historical approaches and relationships
• Examine lessons learned from past. Decrease the climate of mistrust (born from white dictatorial methods in the past)
• Examine models that have failed

• Not repeat the ‘same old same old’ mistakes
• ‘One size doesn’t fit all’ Move towards a model that works

• Highlights that dogs are the responsibility of the owners not the Shire
• Establish a local community advisory group and animal control plan  in each community to ‘own and drive the program’
• Work with the community, not against it to achieve outcomes
• Increase compliance with animal control
• Decreases the climate of mistrust (born from white dictatorial and brutal methods in the past)
• Identify and employ local Indigenous workers

• Gains effective assistance and direction, community support and understanding
• Good coordination, a strong community committee and endorsement by powerful key persons dictates the success of the DHP in each community.
• Facilitates ‘knowledge transfer’
• Achieves long term attitudinal change

• Identify/support and resource community members who are interested in dogs and/or have traditional responsibility for them
• Each community requires a paid position (or part thereof) dedicated to animal management
• Given the culturally complex nature of dog control it is important that a representative from the community be responsible for management of the control and education program within their own community.
• Through local employment and training Animal Managament Officers undertake the dog health program in between vet visits.

• Places responsibility on the community not the vets
• Allows programs to become sustainable
• Encourages engagement and compliance

• True improvements and sustainability can only be achieved through the engagement of local staff with a community based program embedded into the fabric of the community work programs. 
• Sustainable programs ensure that short term gains are able to continue into long term outcomes

• Shifts the reliance on ‘white fellas’, shires and vets to the community over the long term
• Reduces the overall cost of programs
• Allows the development and achievement of responsible pet ownership
• Reduces the burden of chronic disease for communities.

• Provide education and training to Animal Management Officers.
• Ideally based on PRIOR and COMMITTED RELATIONSHIPS, establishing trust over long periods of time.
• Provide feedback and statistical information to AMRRIC/Shire for national and local data collection.
• Assist the Shire and the community advisory group with strategic planning
• Drugs, Vets have responsibilities under Veterinary and Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Acts with respect to remote prescribing.
• Support responsible remote prescribing of Ivomec, Covinan (reduces costs of vets on site)

• parasite control (and/or training a local to undertake this   component)
• surgical desexing and other forms of reproductive control
• treatment of conditions that significantly affect animal welfare,
• euthanasia where requested by the owner, 
• pet care education.

• Provides professional expertise
• PRIOR and COMMITTED VETERINARY RELATIONSHIPS, achieves greater outcomes and compliance
• Provides expertise and data for the Shire strategic planning
• Provides ‘on the job training for Animal Management Officers whilst achieving program outcomes
• Empowers the local community with options for dog management

• Definite correlation between maximising appropriate teaching and learning experiences and achieving excellent program outcomes
• Dissemination of information and education about animal welfare and disease is a major component of the individual house visits undertaken by the Vet and the Local Animal Health Worker.

• Enables Aboriginal people to appreciate what the Program is about and why governments and regional Shires are implementing animal management programs
• Enhances the capacity of communities to benefit from the program.
• Enables local residents to understand the process.
• Fosters effective and appropriate long term change.
• Non Aboriginal stakeholders will learn to work effectively in an Aboriginal context and develop useful strategies that fit the local context.

• Decided in consultation with community advisory groups, include ‘white fella’ dogs in legislation
• Only achievable through education programs, ‘knowledge transfer’, NO 2 and No 3 Components
• Shires enact by-laws when dealing with dangerous breeds
• Police and councils have powers to deal with dangerous breeds (should be culturally aware)

• Community pride

• Recognises that linkages between agencies (health, environmental health, department local government, housing, etc) at commonwealth, state, territory and community government levels need to be  encouraged.
• All stakeholders must play a role,
• All play a role- not just up to shires to address the issues.
• Partnerships with local health Boards
• Partnerships with Health Clinics (dog bite data and reporting etc)

• Shares the load
• Achnowledges impact of and responsibility for animals and their health lies across many areas not just the Shires
• Attracts more resources and utilizes those currently in place more effectively.

• AMRRIC and Shires well placed to participate in research
• Contribute to a strategy of prevention of the infections which lead to chronic disease in humans and thier companion animals

• Provides evidence to develop strategies to enhance the health of Indigenous communities
• Prevents development of chronic diseases.

• Recording of biometric data is essential for planning and monitoring the success of the program.
• Baseline data and ongoing collation of data
• Tracks and informs budgets and ongoing need
• Measure growing move to ‘user pay’ and responsible pet ownership

• More effective planning
• Tracks and informs best practice,
• Develops Accurate Shire picture
• Feedback on all levels- community, shire, territory, AMRRIC, national

• Promote dog behaviour as a social responsibility (biting, noise, mating)

• Achieves compliance around by laws
• Shifts responsibility of owning a pet entirely to the owner
• Improves health and safety of community
• Shows people that it will help the dogs if they’re well and behaved (e.g., be safe from retribution for bad behaviour; desexed dogs less likely to fight and harm themselves and others)
• Achieves AMRRIC vision