Youth Empowerment
Growing strong young leaders on Country. School holiday programs, bush trips with Elders, sport and leadership camps for young people across the homelands.
Health across Urapuntja
Our community's own health service, caring for the sixteen homelands of Utopia. At the clinic, on the road and in community.
In a life-threatening emergency call 000. Clinic (08) 8956 9875, Monday–Friday, 8:30am–4:30pm
Sixteen homelands, one community
We deliver services to everyone, every week.
← from Alice Springs, about 250 km
Artekerr
Three Bores
First stop on the run from Alice Springs
Camel Camp
In the south of the homelands, west of the Sandover
Ankerrapw
Utopia Homestead
Where the outreach health program began in 1977
Tommyhawk Swamp
On the southern stretch, near the old homestead
Arlparra
The biggest centre on the run, with store, school and airstrip
Inkwelaye
Kurrajong Bore
Served since the service's earliest days
Apungalindum
In the heart of the homelands, west of Arlparra
Atneltyey
Boundary Bore
On the western side of the homelands
Atnarara
Soakage Bore
Served since the service's earliest days
Arawerr
Soapy Bore
Home ground of the Soapy Bore Crows
Iylentye
Mosquito Bore
Just west of the clinic, off the highway
Atheley
The clinic's nearest neighbour, right on the highway
Amengernterneah
Urapuntja Health Service
Urapuntja clinic
Inkawenyerre
Rocket Range
On the northern stretch, past the clinic
Ngkwarlerlanem
Ngwalala
One of the northern homelands, toward Ampilatwatja
Indaringinya
Antarrengeny
The northernmost stop on the clinic run
Leaving Alice Springs
The local people had taken control, and the health service has been autonomous ever since.
Community-controlled from the beginning
Our community has run this health service since 1979. Our Board is our community, and decisions about health on the homelands are made on the homelands.
How community control works →
Nearly fifty years of wins for community →
Much more than a health service
Primary health care comes first. Around it, everything that keeps community strong.
Health services
General practice & nursing
Health checks, wound care and everyday care.
Child & maternal health
Care for mums, babies and growing kids.
Chronic disease care
Support for diabetes, heart and kidney health.
Traditional healing
Ngangkere care alongside clinic care.
Emergency response
First response, with aeromedical retrieval.
Beyond the clinic
Made on the homelands
Programs our community asked for, shaped by our people.
Farming
Fresh food grown on our own Country. A community farming project building food security, training and jobs on the homelands.
Bush Medicine
Two ways of healing, side by side. Traditional healers and bush medicine work alongside clinical care, as they have at Urapuntja since the beginning.
Soapy Bore Crows
Our football team, pride of the homelands. Footy that brings communities together and carries health messages where they matter.
From the homelands
Welcome to our new website
A new home online for the story of Urapuntja. Our history, our homelands, our programs and our people.
Flu vaccinations available at the clinic
Winter flu vaccinations are now available for everyone in the community. Drop in or call the clinic.
Soapy Bore Crows season underway
The Crows have kicked off another season. Follow the team that brings the homelands together.