The five core elements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle
Our case studies below build evidence through demonstrating what works in supporting our children and families to have strong social and emotional wellbeing.
REFOCUS was founded in 2010 to specialise in providing services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities. The organisation focusses on children and ensuring that they and their parents receive services to assist in creating resilient, safe and happy environments. Refocus offer a range of services including child and family wellbeing services, Family participation program, Community and kinship care, NDIS services, and Family Preservation through Delegated Authority activities.
As an early adopter of Delegated Authority (DA) in Queensland, RRFOCUS are demonstrating the processes and best practices for implementing the delegation of decision-making authority from government departments to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in relation to child protection decisions such as reunification and contact. For REFOCUS, DA is about ensuring collaborative relations, and that a cultural lens is at the heart of every discussion and decision made in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.
Since the case study was completed, funding has increased to support to DA activities in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled organisations across Queensland.
Goolburri Aboriginal Health Advancement Company Ltd. (Goolburri) is a community controlled health service that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous communities in the Toowoomba, Darling Downs and South West region.
This is the story of Bunji Burri to Gunadoos, a successful early year’s program provided by Goolburri that began with one client in 2017 and has since provided comprehensive wrap-around care to children and families in greater Toowoomba region and across the Darling Downs.
As a not-for-profit organisation, Goolburri provides General Practitioner (GP), Oral, Primary and Allied Health Services, with a range of Home and Community Care, Family Wellbeing, Aged Care Services, Early Numeracy and Literacy Support and NDIS services.
Case study
Principles in Action:
Member Organisation:
Halt Collective
Region:
Brisbane
The HALT Collective is a collaborative community-led response to the ongoing over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people living in the Brisbane District in the child protection system.
In 2022, the story of development and the significant outcomes achieved, guided by Elders and secured through strong collaborative partnerships, was captured through a promising practice case study (HALT Collective: A Promising Practice Case Study – QATSICPP).
It was a story of cultural respect and how children and families can be kept safe when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge drives child protection processes.
This Case Study continues the HALT Collective story.
It focuses on the journey undertaken to keeping children and families safe, specifically for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pregnant women, residing in the Brisbane District, where there was reasonable suspicion that an unborn child might be in need of protection once born.
The success of the initial pilot project and establishment of a process that meets both legislative requirements and families’ needs has been significant and extremely hard fought for. The outcomes provide a compelling story.
The Palm Island Community Company (PICC) is a not – for- profit organisation which was established in 2007. It is an Aboriginal organisation committed to community control principles and protocols of self-determination through the provision of whole-of life services for people of the Island that reach across generations.
The HALT Collective Group is an evolving process to stop, slow down and reduce the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People entering the Tertiary Child Protection System. The group meaningfully addresses the over representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the child protection system.
Kurbingui offers services to Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander community members, families, young people and children delivering various community services and support across areas such as employment and training, family support, support and specialist services, domestic and family violence, alcohol and substance abuse, cultural education and engagement, recreation and sports, and group workshops for young people, men and women.
Our promising practice case study framework underpins our commitment to promote and progress the implementation of the five elements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP).
