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29/10/2026

THINK PINK 🩷🌸💅

VAHS hosted a stunning Pink Ladies High Tea to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month 🫖

While enjoying high tea, women from Community had important conversations with each other and our guests from BreastScreen Victoria and The Koori Way about their health, and were referred for on-the-day free breast screenings nearby at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the state of Victoria. If you're aged 40-plus, you can book a free breast screen every two years. If you have family history of breast cancer, yarn with your GP or Aboriginal Health Worker, as you may need to start your regular screens younger.

Between screens, get comfortable and used to performing self checks, feeling for any bumps, lumps, changes in texture, or general discomfort.

28/10/2026

The best bets you can make are on yourself, your Mob, and your future 💪🏿

For Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2026, we've put together a self care bingo of things you can do instead of having a punt if you feel like your gambling is getting away from you 💸

How to play:
💰 Each day, choose one square to focus on
💰 Cross out the action once complete
💰 Use the free space to complete your row or column (we encourage you to add your own task to fill this spot!)
💰 Revisit your bingo card whenever you need a reminder to take care of yourself

27/10/2026

This could be you! 🎾

If you have had, or book in for your 715 Health Check at VAHS between January and December 2026, you would win a money-can't-buy Australian Open 2027 experience thanks to Deadly Choices 🥎

Enter by Friday 4 December for your chance to win travel, accommodation, a double pass, hit on the court with Tennis Australia ambassadors, and a deadly dinner: https://bit.ly/4zlCem0

❗️ Winner must be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, have had a health check during the specified dates, be an active VAHS client, be available during the prize dates (18-20 January), and able to provide photo ID ❗️

25/10/2026

October 24-31 is Gambling Harm Awareness Week 💰

We know that recognising, understanding, and seeking help for gambling harm can be hard, and that gambling can affect the whole Mob.

If someone close to you is experiencing gambling harm, the financial impact can spread across the family and household.

Here are some simple tips from VAHS' dedicated Financial Wellbeing team if you or a loved one is struggling:

💸 Create (and stick to) a simple budget
💸 Set up direct debits for essential bills
💸 Separate gambling money from every day spending by limiting access to large amounts of cash
💸 Review bank statements to understand spending patterns

If you or someone you know is impacted by gambling harm, you do not have to carry it alone.

You can yarn with our Financial Wellbeing team and set up a plan, book in by phoning 9403 3300, or, reach out to the First Nations Gambling Awareness Program supported by Gambler's Help, any time 24/7 for free, confidential support on 1800 858 858 🖤💛❤️

22/10/2026

Con-graduations! 🎓

The inaugural cohort of the VAHS x RMIT University Diploma of Leadership and Management graduated yesterday 🖤💛❤️

This group of current and future VAHS leaders have already applied their study at VAHS to identify and amend existing processes as well as developing new ones to make the way we work more efficient, and have better outcomes for Community.

We look forward to seeing how else our graduates apply these valuable skills at VAHS and in wider Aboriginal Community Control.

20/10/2026

VAHS proudly stands with and co-signs Djirra's statement demanding urgent action to save Aboriginal women's lives, following the tragic passing of Jayda Allen.

Victoria’s crisis of gendered violence is a catastrophe for Aboriginal women and girls, who are 25 times more likely to die from violence than any other woman.

Jayda’s life mattered. All Aboriginal women's lives matter, and we refuse to stand by as this continues to happen to women like Jayda without the perpetuators facing accountability.

If you or a loved one needs support for domestic or family violence, contact Djirra on 1800 105 303 or 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732. If you need a yarn, calling Yarning Safe N Strong on 1800 959 563.

19/10/2026

Get your 715 Health Check and WIN tickets, travel, and accommodation to the 2027 Australian Open thanks to Deadly Choices! 🎾

Anyone who has had their 715 Health Check between 1 January 2026 and December 2026 is eligible to enter 🥎

Enter by Friday 4 December for your chance to win! https://bit.ly/4zlCem0

❗️Terms and conditions: Winner must be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, have had a health check during the specified dates, an active VAHS client, available during the prize dates (18-20 January), and able to provide photo ID ❗️

19/10/2026

📷: Story and photos: Jeremy Story Carter, ABC News

"(Bunjilwarra) gave me stability, it saved my life," Bunjilwarra resident Kane tells ABC.

Bunjilwarra is a residential rehabilitation centre for Mob, by Mob. While its goal is healing, it could not feel further from clinical 🍃

Hear more about how Bunjilwarra is changing young people's lives: https://bit.ly/3UtYtHM

15/10/2026

📢 VAHS Board Director nominations are now OPEN 📢

Are you passionate about Aboriginal Community Control and helping to shape the future of VAHS?

Nominations are open for three Director positions on the VAHS Board, to be elected at this year's Annual General Meeting on Thursday 26 November 2026 📆

To nominate, please contact [email protected] for a copy of the VAHS Board of Directors Nomination Form to complete it and submit back to the EA before 4pm, Thursday 5 November 📧

Nominations must be:

🖤 Completed in full
💛 Signed by the nominee
❤️ Supported and signed by two current active VAHS members
🖤 Include details of the nominees' qualifications, experience, and any previous service for VAHS or another co-operative

Further information regarding the AGM will be sent to members in accordance with the VAHS Constitution.

15/10/2026

❗This post contains the name and photograph of an Aboriginal woman who has passed away, shared publicly with family approval. Please take care of yourselves and your loved ones and proceed with caution and contact Yarning Safe N Strong on 1800 959 563 if you need support ❗

VAHS respectfully acknowledges and offer our deepest sympathies, love, and support to the family and loved ones of Yagera woman Jayda Allen Bonner, who was tragically murdered this week by an abusive partner.

Jayda was just 21 years old and with her whole life ahead of her. Her life was violently cut short. Her family feared for her safety and begged for police to intervene just six weeks before her death. What happened to her must not be softened, silenced or forgotten and we demand accountability, justice, and change for Jayda and women like her.

This is an absolute tragedy both for our Community and the wider community, who are feeling devastation, pain, and anger for what has happened to Jayda and the senselessness of this crime.

There will be a vigil and smoking ceremony for Jayda this Saturday and we encourage Mob to come out in numbers to show our collective support for Jayda, her grieving family, and to show Jayda’s life, Aboriginal women’s lives matter, and every woman’s life matters.

Date: Saturday 17 October
Time: 5.30pm
Location: 480 Lygon Street, Carlton

If you have, or if you or someone you love is experiencing family violence, call 1800DJIRRA (1800 354 772) or 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

Address

186 Nicholson Street
Fitzroy, VIC
3065

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 4pm

Telephone

+61394193000

Website

http://vahs.org.au/

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