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Cultural awareness

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Cultural sensitivity
Culture awareness
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Social relations
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Cultural awareness
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Report

An anti-racism framework: voices of First Nations peoples


Drawing from extensive consultations from diverse populations including those with metropolitan, rural, and remote backgrounds, this report serves as a foundational document for the development of a National Anti-Racism Framework, focusing on the most prolific forms of racism experienced by First Nations peoples across Australia.
Journal article

Understanding the wellbeing needs of First Nations children in out-of-home care in Australia

Alana Gall, Kirsten Howard, Jemma Venables, Karen Healy, Lea Bill, Angeline Letendre , Michelle Dickson, Gail Garvey
This is a comprehensive review on the wellbeing needs of First Nations Australian children in out-of-home care (OOHC) and the aspects of care that support them. It supports ongoing efforts to improve OOHC for First Nations children and helps clarify elements that promote their wellbeing based on their experiences in care and the perspectives of...
Discussion paper

Cultural safety in Australia: discussion paper


Culture plays a significantly protective role in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ individual, and community lives. This paper reflects on the history of advocacy for cultural safety in Australia, clarifies how cultural safety training and education differs from other types of cultural training, propose a revised set of nationally consistent quality standards for cultural...
Guide

Understanding cultural safety for Aboriginal children and young people


This cultural safety guidance offers practical steps to take organisations through the process of establishing culturally safe environments and demonstrate their compliance with the Child Safe Standards law.
Position paper

Culturally responsive approach to assessing mental health and suicide prevention


Integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values-based social and emotional wellbeing measures within clinical assessments is crucial for developing and evaluating effective, culturally safe mental health and suicide prevention services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This paper presents values-based measures recommended to be led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and implemented...