Yawarj Mara
Strong Pathways: Improving Multidisciplinary Responses
Yawarj Mara
Strong Pathways: Improving Multidisciplinary Responses
Aboriginal families are more likely, than other families to experience heightened consequential impacts from multiple and complex needs. These needs increase their risk of entering the child protection system and are a contributing factor in the over-representation of Aboriginal children entering out-of-home care.
Yawarj Mara Strong Pathways – Improving Services Team will work collaboratively with stakeholders, through our Framework for Action, to enhance/improve wholistic responses to Aboriginal Families with multiple and complex needs, to reduce the high numbers of Aboriginal Children in OoHC.
Vision: Aboriginal Families and their children and young people are safe, resilient, thriving and living in culturally rich, strong Aboriginal Families and Communities
Our aim:
- Aboriginal-led evidence is driving service improvement, investment, policy and legislative reform for Aboriginal child and family services
- Aboriginal children and young people are providing cultural leadership, policy advice and advocacy
- Aboriginal children are no longer overrepresented in the child protection and care system
- Parents/grandparents, foster and kinship Carers are receiving the right support from Aboriginal organisations
- Aboriginal organisations are high performing and the primary providers of high quality child and family services
- All Child and Family services are culturally responsive and safe for Aboriginal people and accountable to community controlled structures
- Aboriginal organisations have the resources needed to grow and support confident Aboriginal workers to deliver high quality services
- All workers across Aboriginal child and family services have the knowledge, skills and supports to deliver high quality, culturally informed, responsive and safe services
