This report focuses on Indigenous people aged 10-24. It reports on a framework that covers health and wellbeing outcomes, social and economic determinants, health risk factors, and health and welfare services.
Dec2018 - This resource is primarily designed to support a
holistic understanding of the five elements of the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement
Principle (ATSICPP) and promote the processes,
strategies and practices required to progress its
implementation.
This paper describes the understandings, principles and service context that underpin Aboriginal cultural competence for the child and family services system in Victoria.
This framework provides a guide for how we partner with communities to take forward the work of Korin Korin Balit-Djak, the Aboriginal health, wellbeing and safety strategic plan and Balit Murrup, the Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing framework.
The Child's Voice tools aim to help workers engage with kids and get to know them, understand their worries and wishes and develop plans that are child centred and informed. They are based on the view that if you do not get to know kids, build trust and understand their family and culture, kids are unlikely to talk with you about the tough stuff.
The chapters in this report detail the progress made against the seven Closing the Gap targets - and focus on health, education, employment and community safety.
This guide provides links to selected sources of financial assistance to community groups. Links are sorted according to Federal, State and Territory Government and non-government sources. This guide does not include links to scholarships, fellowships or research grants.
This paper uses the latest 2016 Census figures to provide a snapshot of how the ATSI peoples of NSW compare with non-Indigenous residents across a range of key indicators, including population, age, education, income and employment.
The Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities sets out freedoms, rights and responsibilities that are protected by law in Victoria. The Victorian Government, public servants, local councils and other public authorities must act consistently with the Charter and observe human rights in their day-to-day operations.
This project is an initiative of Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation and Women's Health Goulburn North East - organisations based in northeast Victoria. It is supported by the Upper Hume Primary Care Partnership and Wodonga Regional Health Service.
This framework can be used as a planning and evaluation tool for specific health promotion initiatives with Aboriginal communities and as a prompt for all health promotion initiatives to ensure that we are incorporating the needs of our local Aboriginal people.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men are 14.7 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous men. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 21.2 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous women. The ALRC was asked to consider laws and legal frameworks that contribute to the incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and inform decisions to hold or keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men are 14.7 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous men. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 21.2 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous women. The ALRC was asked to consider laws and legal frameworks that contribute to the incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and inform decisions to hold or keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody.
A guided approach to risk assessment in child protection. It has been developed with and for child protection practitioners to help them gather information about risk of harm to children, make sense of it and formulate strategies to improve their safety.
This paper explores some of the characteristics of traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices that contribute to effective family functioning, and how these practices can have positive effects on children and communities.
This paper draws on documented practice experience; that is, writings from trauma and research experts on how, where and why they are delivering trauma-informed services and trauma-specific care to aid the healing and recovery of victims/survivors of trauma.
The Victorian Government Aboriginal Affairs Report is a chance to consider how we have tracked against our commitment to improving outcomes for Aboriginal Victorians as measured against the Victorian Aboriginal Affairs Framework. It's also an important opportunity to recognise the achievements and strengths of Victorian Aboriginal communities.
The purpose of this book is to provide an appropriate resource for a range of health professionals who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers, counsellors, and other staff of Indigenous health services. It provides a comprehensive, culturally relevant, and specific resource to support the provision of services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are striving to effectively deal with the effects of past policies and practices.
This summary report details the findings from the more than 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people who responded to the Mission Australia Youth Survey 2018. This year was the first time that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people identified mental health as the top issue in Australia.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this website may contain images, voices or names of deceased persons in photographs, film, audio recordings or printed material. To listen to our Acknowledgement of Country, click here.