Safe Families Intro Personal Introduction Tangentyere Council Safe
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Safe Families • Intro • Personal Introduction • Tangentyere Council • Safe Families Model • Strengths • Weaknesses • Lessons learned
Tangentyere Council • Provides a service to 19 town camps • Historically poor infrastructure and service provision • Population consists of approximately 1250 adults and 400 young people
Tangentyere Council • Family and Youths Services • Housing • Social Justice • Employment and Financial Services
History Safe Families Consultations with • Local Aboriginal leaders • Community groups • Service providers
Safe Families Focuses on an Aboriginal, family – inclusive, community centred approach in relation to child protection issues in order to keep Aboriginal young people safe and with family.
Safe Families Vision Statement • Kinship care is crucial to the physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of all young people • Support families to preserve their traditional obligations to nurture and provide care to young people
Safe Families Vision Statement • Fostering and preserving community connectedness and the cultural integrity of Aboriginal families • Ensure young people grow up strong, safe, resilient and healthy in their transition to adulthood
Safe Families Target Group • Children and young people aged up to 14 yrs • Young people presenting as “at risk” • Young people subject to child protection intervention • Young people who present with multiple and complex issues
Safe Families Intervention • Referral • Crisis Accommodation • Assessment • Accommodation medium to long term • Case management • Review
FACS COMMUNITY SAFE HOUSE Kinship Carers Family Foster Carers
Short term placements Emergency Respite Community Transition Alternative Carer
Department of Health and Community Services
How do we work? • Employment of local Aboriginal staff members • Family mapping • Family meetings • Language speakers • Informal and formal networks • Collaboration with other organisations and agencies
Lessons learned • Importance of actively involving family members in process • Importance of maintaining language, stories, law and tradition for cultural identity • Need to acknowledge the value of traditional knowledge and skills
Lessons learned • Need for collaboration with wider community • Importance of flexibility in approach • Provision of specific training to meet needs of staff members
Strengths • The Service is well accepted within the community • Flexible model – able to meet the need of the community and the statutory child protection body • Young people feel more at ease and safe • Maintain connection to country • Language, Culture and tradition is kept alive
Weaknesses • Recruitment of staff • Funding for training • Lack of career structure • High demands on staff members from community due to cultural obligations
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