About your Hub
The Galariinbaraay Community Hub in Collarenebri (Maarabaa Galariinbaraay-gu) is a collaborative initiative of the Collarenebri community and the Health Communities Foundation Australia Limited (formerly RARMS or Rural and Remote Medical Services).​
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Funded by a grant from the Murray Darling Basin Authority, the Hub includes consulting rooms for health practitioners, a dedicated Telehealth video-conferencing room to improve access to services, a study space for students enrolled in health and related programs, and a clinical simulation room to teach basic clinical skills.
The Hub is focussed on supporting community health literacy and initiatives that help to address the social determinants of health (the causes of illness and injury in the community) and providing early intervention care that improves community health and reduces avoidable hospitalisations.
​The Foundation has worked in Collarenebri for many years. It believes that by focussing on people's needs, and working in collaboration with the community and other like-minded organisations, we are better able to make sure that the services we deliver are the ones the community needs.
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The Hub is a work in progress. Our goal is to secure government support to expand the range of services over time, in addition to the Hub becoming a centre for community and economic development in Collarenebri.
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In 2022 we worked with the Murdi Paaki Collarenebri Collarenebri Working Party to develop Galariinbaraay Community Plan 2022-32 which is an ambitious agenda developed by the Aboriginal community to create new economic opportunities, jobs, health services and educational opportunities to improve health and wellbeing for everyone in the community.
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The aim of the Hub is to create a single point of access in Collarenebri to health, human, education and related community services, and support the development of new social and economic opportunities for residents.
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The Hub is part education and training centre, part economic development hub, part medical centre and part research facility.