The forum brought together Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, community members, policy leaders, researchers and government representatives to share knowledge, strengthen partnerships and shape the direction of reform across the New South Wales child and family sector. It combined policy updates, lived experience, place-based practice and strategic discussion in ways that reflected the work underway.

The framework provides a roadmap for mainstream organisations to transition out-of-home care services to Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, placing self-determination, cultural authority and community control at the centre of child and family services. The aim is to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities design, govern and control the services that impact their children and...

The report details the impact of the nationally delivered, culturally responsive trauma informed training initiative Project Waterways, highlighting how the co-design approach strengthened the Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations sector, increased workforce capability to respond to intergenerational trauma and drove progress towards the National Agreement on Closing the Gap Target 12.

Centred on the themes of justice, equality and healing, this report demonstrates how social, cultural and institutional determinants shape health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It presents ten recommendations aimed at embedding Indigenous rights in public policy, strengthening accountability across governments, and ensuring the National Agreement delivers tangible and equitable...

The toolkit provides local councils in New South Wales with information, ideas and examples of what services and functions they provide that align with the aims and objectives of Closing the Gap. It offers practical examples, tools, templates and self-assessment tools for councils to measure how they align and where they can evolve.