Supporter spotlight: KWY Aboriginal Corporation Who is KWY? KWY is a not-for-profit Aboriginal organisation focused on creating a place for change. We provide Aboriginal people, families, and community with cultural services and supports that build positive change. KWY also work with government, non-government organisations and industry to create change in their organisation and business through our cultural consultancy and training services. Over the last few years, KWY has rapidly grown to support over 1,500 people a year. KWY support Aboriginal people to stay safe, thrive and continue to be connected to culture. KWY have experienced great outcomes, such as keeping family together and improving their safety. KWY’s portfolio has increased to cover domestic and family violence, child protection, youth work, kinship care, disability, mentoring, Aboriginal education outcomes, perpetrator intervention, and cultural training and consultancy. Cultural ways of healing and engagement are embedded throughout our programs. These provide a unique way of improving outcomes and wellbeing, reducing risk and increasing safety. In turn, this will provide a safe space to encourage reconnection with our culture, our spirit, our community. Strong Families, Strong Communities (peer to peer program) KWY in partnership with The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) have launched a new group program; Strong Families, Strong Communities. This program is designed and facilitated by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. This peer-to-peer program is calling for community members who have deadly skills in a range of areas and can share these with your community. These skills can be anything from art, culture or cooking to time management, budgeting or navigating systems. KWY will walk alongside and provide some training to peer volunteers to help support community- led change through connectedness. These groups will be running in Northern and Western metropolitan Adelaide and Mount Gambier.
KWY Training & Consultancy KWY provides culturally specific training to increase cultural understanding for better engagement, improving the delivery of services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Some of their programs include: CUBE - Cultural Understanding Better Engagement This one-day training offers the opportunity for participants to: Increase participant's own cultural understanding Discuss strategies for the implementation of their new learnings Examine how these learnings may be embedded into service delivery Improved relationships between Aboriginal staff/volunteers and community Gain awareness and a greater understanding of organisational cultural competency. TICR - Trauma Informed Culturally Responsive This two-day training offers the opportunity for participants to: Gain an understanding of the guiding principles of culturally responsive practice and how this could be applied in your daily work Have a greater understanding of the guiding principles of trauma-informed/responsive practice and how this could be applied in culturally responsive ways in your roles Have direct opportunities to explore what it looks like in action and develop practical steps to utilise in your workplaces. Explore our brain and the impact of stress Discuss intergenerational trauma and what is needed to respond.
Maryke van Diermen, Craig Rigney, Deirdre Flynn & Jaylee Cooper We look forward to strengthening our already valued partnership with KWY to support Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander women who experience homelessness and domestic and family violence.
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