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Elder-governed\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yarns<\/jats:italic>\n                      were conducted via Zoom with 44 representative Victorian Aboriginal Elders, Healers, Senior and Junior people involved in the health and wellbeing of the Victorian Aboriginal community. These\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yarns<\/jats:italic>\n                      were analyzed through an innovative, constructivist, multi-perspectival discursive grounded theory method.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Five pre-eminent themes emerged: the socio-economic barriers to services, the ongoing effects of colonization, disconnection and isolation from community and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Country<\/jats:italic>\n                      , pressures in society of living in two worlds and lack of cultural safety and racism. Detailed and rich day-to-day barriers and possible grassroots solutions were proffered.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The analyzed\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">yarns<\/jats:italic>\n                      provide important detail about everyday barriers Indigenous peoples face in healthcare services and potential ways forward to improve the situation for Indigenous young people and their kinship networks. This paper can help shape future policy and its implementation. 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