Not exact matches
Talk to the Australian Public Service Commission about the recruitment and retention of
Indigenous staff and cultural
awareness training
[51] The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner has also noted that in the context of mainstreaming
Indigenous service delivery, consideration needs to be given to the recruitment and retention of
Indigenous staff, cultural
awareness training for agencies and appropriate recruitment processes for staff working in
Indigenous service delivery areas.
Given that mainstream departments now have new responsibilities to
Indigenous peoples and will be required to engage with
Indigenous peoples in ways that they previously have not done so, there is a greater need for appropriate cultural
awareness training service - wide.
Employment and
Training; participation in designing company's Indigenous employment initiative; role of government in funding employment programs; designated Indigenous positions; mentoring; transferability of skills; capacity - building; sub-contracting; cross cultural awareness training for employees and managers; requiring subcontractors to adopt Indigenous
Training; participation in designing company's
Indigenous employment initiative; role of government in funding employment programs; designated
Indigenous positions; mentoring; transferability of skills; capacity - building; sub-contracting; cross cultural
awareness training for employees and managers; requiring subcontractors to adopt Indigenous
training for employees and managers; requiring subcontractors to adopt
Indigenous program;
Exceptionally, the New South Wales Government has pledged $ 100,000 to be granted to Link - Up New South Wales, for one year only [97], and the Queensland Government has announced, without details, that it is to develop a «specifically targeted cross-cultural
awareness training program to assist reunification of members of the stolen generations with their families and culture and promote understanding of
Indigenous culture within the non-
Indigenous families involved» and has employed an individual to work on the project [98].
Community focus groups reported positive changes in service delivery as a result of general practice staff attending cultural
awareness training, changes not seen to be required in
Indigenous Health Services (already established as culturally appropriate services).
The practice implemented some simple strategies already proven to work in the community controlled sector — more
Indigenous staff, artwork and Aboriginal radio in the waiting room, cultural
awareness training, and promotion of their services in the community — and the patients came.
This should include campaigns to recruit and then support
indigenous people into government, private and non-government sector employment, as well as involve the
training in capacity building and cultural
awareness for civil servants.
The developer of Somatic Experiencing ®, a body -
awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts
trainings in this work throughout the world and in various
indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students.
In Australia, most
indigenous cultural
training designed for health workers focuses on developing «cultural
awareness» [4, 17].
Strategies: Establish local committees in each community to raise
awareness about family violence issues; develop Family Violence Prevention component of CDEP to provide effective support; provide
training / support for
Indigenous people placed in position of reporting on abuse through professional / personal relationships with families; advocate appropriate, holistic regional rehabilitation services.
Databases including CINAHL PLUS, MEDLINE, Wiley InterScience, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography — ATSIHealth and ProQuest were searched using a range of search terms, including «cultural
training», «cultural
awareness», «cultural competence», «cultural safety», «cross-cultural», «culturally appropriate», «inter-cultural», «
training», «education», «diversity
training», «trans - cultural nursing», «health professionals», «health», «Aboriginal», «Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander», «
indigenous» and «Australia».
A judicial cultural
awareness training session on lateral and
Indigenous family violence for the Judicial College of Victoria.
These included the introduction of Aboriginal cross-cultural
awareness training for judges and court staff; the appointment of
Indigenous Family Liaison Officers in the Northern Territory and Queensland, and procedures for the recognition of traditional Torres Strait Islander customary adoption (Kupai Omasker).
It is important that non-
Indigenous staff are receiving the same, if not more intense
awareness - raising programs about lateral violence and
training about effective engagement than
Indigenous employees.
In practice, however, the literature located in this review suggests that cultural
awareness training focuses on «
indigenous culture» [for example, see 19], with little consideration of the broader health service or system and thus falls close to the «knowledge» end of the axis in Fig. 1.
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Training Program - a unique, facilitated online
training designed to increase knowledge, enhance self - awareness, and strengthen the skills of those who work directly and indirectly with Aboriginal
training designed to increase knowledge, enhance self -
awareness, and strengthen the skills of those who work directly and indirectly with Aboriginal people.
This
training is designed for non-
Indigenous people working within the justice system (law clinics, court houses, sheriff's office, judiciary, and correctional facilities) * who work with
Indigenous people; or others who wish to increase their knowledge,
awareness and skills.
The complaint was resolved at a conciliation conference with the company agreeing to provide the woman with a statement of regret, implement cultural
awareness training for staff and arrange an appropriate point of contact for
Indigenous employees.