Supporter Spring 2022
Working towards reconciliation
AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia’s draft Reconciliation Action Plan has reached a significant milestone following Board endorsement in August.
Our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) 2022-24 has been developed following an extensive and immersive co-design process. It is our third RAP in 10 years and sets out a strategic roadmap that will drive authentic reconciliation through measured and sustainable benefits for First Nations people we employ, serve, and partner with. The RAP – along with a new Acknowledgement of Country that we are developing – has been approved by the First Nations Senior Leaders Group, First Nations Staff Network, and the Executive. Our Innovate RAP sets out a strategic roadmap that will drive authentic reconciliation through measured and sustainable benefits for First Nations people we employ, serve, and partner with.
Reconciliation must be a whole-of- organisation responsibility for us to become culturally safe and welcoming, free from racism and discrimination. We want to be a place that First Nations children, young people, individuals, families, and communities will choose and trust to work and engage with in their time of need. The next stages of our RAP journey will involve endorsement from Reconciliation Australia before final accreditation. This process will involve consultation with AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia employees. We hope to launch our RAP and the new Acknowledgement of Country this calendar year, but we are advised that the accreditation process can take time. In the meantime, we will continue work to develop our identified reconciliation initiatives.
Our Story Caring for others, embracing those in need and walking by their side is central to the artwork created by Adelaide Hills artist Karen Briggs as part of AnglicareSA’s journey to reconciliation. Karen’s vibrant design – called Our Story will be used throughout AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia’s new Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). A proud Yorta Yorta woman, Karen says her inspiration for Our Story was drawn from her own experience, and that of her mother’s in working with social services agencies like AnglicareSA. “It was a big brief symbolically trying to bring in my culture to explain the energy and spirit of what reconciliation is across all levels of AnglicareSA,” Karen says. OUR STORY: Karen Briggs created the artwork Our Story for our Reconciliation Action Plan
Our Story artwork created by Karen Briggs for AnglicareSA’s Reconciliation Action Plan
“Then there are the swirls of wind flowing through the organisation that is symbolic of the spirit of reconciliation.”
“I also wanted to add in that feeling of caring and placing the customer and the community at the heart of everything, which is represented by the two dotted lines walking side by side around elements of the design.
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