Acknowledgements

WA Health wishes to acknowledge the generous assistance of the following people and organisations who helped in the development of Yarning Quiet Ways:

• Parents and carers who participated in the focus groups

• Chontarle Bellottie, Western Australian Centre for Rural Health

• Dawn Bessarab, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, University of Western Australia

• Francis Timothy Fernandez

• Jenny Walsh (original author of Talk Soon. Talk Often.) 

• Leigh Hedstrom (illustrations) 

• Marilyn Lyford, Western Australian Centre for Rural Health

• Marion Kickett, Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University

• Permeance Technologies

• Rose Murray, Sexual Health Quarters

• Sandra Thompson, Western Australian Centre for Rural Health

• Sunni Friello, Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services

• Smith and Brown Design 

• Vattessa Colbung, Desert Gem

• Western Australian Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee.