Our Founding Members

• CATSIN (now known as CATSINaM) was founded in 1997 by Dr Sally Goold and a number of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives.
• The purpose of CATSINaM was established to represent Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives. 
• CATSINaM consists of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives including Students as well as retired Nurses and Midwives. 
• CATSINaM’s primary aim was and still is to increase the recruitment and retention of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People in Nursing and Midwifery.
• Our organisation has now earned recognition among the peak bodies in Nursing and Midwifery, and in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health, as the peak representative boy for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives in Australia.
  

Please read CATSIN Foundational Reports;

• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Nursing Forum (18-20 August 1997 – Sydney)
  – An Initiative to Develop Strategies for the Recruitment and Retention of Indigenous Peoples in Nursing
  
• Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing (August 1998)
  – Recommendations to Develop Strategies for the Recruitment and Retention of Indigenous Peoples in Nursing

Founding Members