In August 2024, the International PPI Network kicked off this year’s webinar series with Associate Professor Yaqoot Fatima and Mr Wayne Williams who gave a presentation on the “Let’s Yarn About Sleep” program based in Australia.
"Let’s Yarn About Sleep" (LYAS) is a ground-up movement laying the path to sleep health equity through integration of diverse worldviews and building local capacity. This collaborative approach ensures that all stakeholders are part of the solution, fostering ownership, inclusion, and shared responsibility.
The LYAS program is developed in close collaboration with community members and service providers, ensuring culturally appropriate and effective solutions. It is deeply rooted in community engagement and guided by community elders. The program's innovation lies in empowering end-users, privileging First Nations voices, integrating interdisciplinary expertise, and employing diverse research methodologies.
Key achievements of the program include Australia's first Indigenous Sleep Coach training, creating research roles for community members, training and upskilling the health workforce, developing service delivery models, and integrating sleep health programs in remote schools and health services.
In the webinar, the presenters explored the origins of the LYAS program, reflected on its progress, discussed the guiding framework used for their community-based research and highlighted important aspects of their community engagement approach.
You can watch the webinar recording and download the slide deck on the Cochrane Training website: https://training.cochrane.org/resource/lyas-co-designing-a-movement-for-sleep-health-equity-in-first-nations-communities-in-australia
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