Strategies: Increase numbers of culturally appropriate diversionary programs, including circles sentencing, mediation, drug courts; delivery of prevention programs; culturally appropriate legal services are delivered in the Sydney region; delivery of
culturally appropriate support services to Aboriginal prisoners and their families.
Indigenous parenting support service - Providing flexible,
culturally appropriate support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in the Northern region of Adelaide and the APY Lands.
We strive for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to achieve their best possible social and emotional wellbeing, and have access to
culturally appropriate support.
This depicts beyondblue as a centralised commitment that focuses and emanates outwards through communities, providing
culturally appropriate support for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples social and emotional wellbeing.
Guided by our values of collaboration, respect, enthusiasm, excellence, innovation and integrity, beyondblue's vision for reconciliation is for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to achieve their best possible social and emotional wellbeing and have access to
culturally appropriate support.
When children and families have a support network, they can turn to those people and organisations for
culturally appropriate support or assistance when they need it.
The men are addressing issues like alcohol and other drug use, unemployment and violence by increasing access to
culturally appropriate support services and involving men in building relationships and supporting their emerging leadership through activities to enhance their skills.
It has potential to address the many access and equity barriers to
culturally appropriate supports and services for Indigenous peoples.
Not exact matches
She is committed to
supporting families, and training maternal child health professionals on
culturally appropriate breastfeeding
support.
In 2008, Comunilife created Life is Precious ™ (LIP) to provide
culturally and linguistically
appropriate educational
support, creative art therapy, and wellness activities to Latina teens, aged 12 to 17, who have contemplated or attempted suicide and their families.
It uses
culturally appropriate resources underpinned by evidence - based teaching and learning strategies (the Abecedarian Approach) to
support children from birth to five.
Then, school leaders must clarify how the vision, mission, values and priorities of the school should change in order to
support students in a
culturally appropriate way.
Last April she called for a moratorium on high - stakes Common Core tests, and she made a call in November with early childhood education expert Nancy Carlsson - Paige for education officials to convene a task force to review the «appropriateness and the implementation of the Common Core standards for young learners... and recommend developmentally
appropriate,
culturally responsive guidelines for
supporting young children's optimal learning.»
Federal and state governments must provide financial
support to enable local communities to implement a comprehensive
culturally and linguistically
appropriate school - based mental health program that
supports and fosters the health and development of students.
The Center's work will include, but is not limited to, professional development for the infant / toddler and preschool workforce; evidence - based curriculum; early learning standards; effective transitions; screening and assessment;
culturally and linguistically age
appropriate practices; enhancing teacher / child interactions;
supporting networks of infant / toddler practitioners;
supporting children with disabilities (part C and part B); and using data to improve practice.
The authors recommend a strength - based approach to building family involvement programs in ELL communities and encourage policymakers to
support culturally relevant and nontraditional programs as well as community - based parent programs and
appropriate teacher preparation.
Native American Community Academy (NACA) and its partners
support educators in providing
culturally -
appropriate, holistic education for Native American children across New Mexico and the nation.
Circulated in an 8 - room surgery department with responsibility for providing age and
culturally appropriate care, comfort and
support to preoperative patients
The process is also
supported by a range of
culturally appropriate resources designed specifically for local conditions.
Exacerbating this is the lack of adequate services available for workers in the criminal justice system (lawyers, corrections officers, magistrates, etc) to
support comprehensive and
culturally appropriate assessments.
It provides quick and free online access to a comprehensive collection of relevant, evidence - based, current and
culturally appropriate alcohol and other drug (AOD) knowledge -
support and decision -
support materials and information for individuals, communities, practitioners and policy makers that can be used in the prevention, identification and management of alcohol and other drug use in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
Health professionals require access to a wide range of up to date and
culturally appropriate materials and governments require evidenced based policy
support materials.
The Disability
Support Organisations model is expanded across Australia to ensure
culturally competent and
appropriate engagement with Indigenous communities in the implementation of the NDIS, in order to ensure full access to disability services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Ultimately, this study aims to evaluate a
culturally and contextually
appropriate program that will
support children, families and teachers who are impacted by FASD, and other psychosocial factors, in a way that can contribute to overcoming some of the challenges of remote service delivery.
The «Rites of Passage» study set out to address this gap and pioneer the development of
culturally appropriate intervention and
support through an Aboriginal community - designed and led social and emotional wellbeing service.
Recommendations from a 5 1/2 - year project involving the university, MNDHS, and four Minnesota counties (including Ramsey) included improved identification of needs and subsequent
culturally appropriate referrals to community agencies; the CFA project
supports this goal.
We regularly sought guidance, feedback and
support from the playgroup's facilitators, to ensure what we provided was
culturally relevant and
appropriate.
Geraldine has added her expertise in Early Childhood to committees at the local, State and National level including: the Premier's Advisory Council Childcare (under Premier Steve Bracks, from 2003 - 04); National Childcare Accreditation Council 2005 - 2011; National Children's Services Forum (Early Childhood Australia); Early Childhood Australia Reconciliation Committee.Geraldine is the Deputy Chair of the Secretariat National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) and the Chair of Lulla's Children and Family Centre in Shepparton.In all of her roles in early childhood Geraldine has continued to assert VAEAI's position that child care and kindergarten for Koorie children should be
culturally appropriate, welcoming of Koorie families, and accessible to boost participation of Koorie families in early childhood settings and
support the transition of Koorie children into school.
Learning more about what trauma can mean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families and communities means that school staff can be equipped to recognise the signs of trauma, and
support children and families in ways that are
culturally appropriate.
Attending to this situation must include
culturally -
appropriate measures that ensure Indigenous people participate in decision - making, and build capacity in out - of - home care agencies, planning and
support for our children in care: in short, a
culturally competent, child ‐ centred and family focused services system.
Realizing that youth thrive in the context of their homes and communities, child welfare agencies and their partners can
support a common or integrated case plan that is
culturally appropriate, engages and involves the youth and family, is built upon the strengths of that family, and draws upon the assets of the community.
First up, the research required approval from Inala's Community Jury for Indigenous Health Research, the first research jury to be established in Australia, set up in 2010 to ensure Inala undertakes health research «that is ethically sound,
culturally appropriate, and locally
supported using a safe, meaningful, equitable and transparent process».
-- Increasing access to
culturally -
appropriate early intervention and
support programs, with a focus on:
Supporting the role and capacity of parents by investing in
culturally appropriate early childhood services — including pre-natal
support, universal and targeted parenting programs, child health and allied health services jointly delivered and co-located on or near school sites — must be a priority.
Every woman living in fear must have access to safe and
culturally appropriate legal
support, no matter where they live.
Findings emerging from the pilot program represent significant learnings for a range of stakeholders, including that
support programs should be inclusive of different generations and partners, and be held in
culturally appropriate venues, often on country, or in outdoor venues.
Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTAC) NECTAC
supports implementation of the early childhood provisions of IDEA by strengthening service systems to ensure children with disabilities (birth through 5) and their families receive and benefit from high - quality,
culturally appropriate, and family - centered
supports and services.
From 2013 to 2015 beyondblue worked with Bangarra Dance Theatre, the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) and Alive and Kicking Goals: Young Aboriginal Women's Suicide Prevention Program to produce
culturally appropriate digital stories to
support mental health literacy.
Its mission is to strengthen service systems to ensure that children with disabilities (birth through five) and their families receive and benefit from high quality,
culturally appropriate, and family - centered
supports and services.
If you need more information or
support, you can also check out our list of helpful contacts and websites on this page — including the QLife Community Resource Directory which includes
culturally appropriate services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men.
Promote and
support the physical, emotional, and intellectual development of children through a planned,
culturally and developmentally
appropriate emergent curriculum using intelligent materials and the Creative Curriculum format
In our program and policy work, NBCDI
supports federal, state and local efforts to provide increasing numbers of low - income children with access to quality early education and care; efforts to create a strong and
supported early childhood workforce; and efforts to promote developmentally and
culturally -
appropriate standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment that are aligned within and across the early childhood to early grades continuum.
ZERO TO THREE strongly urges policymakers to continue
supporting the expansion of evidence - based home visitation programs, so the diversity of families who need
support can access it in a
culturally appropriate manner.
Strategies:
Support culturally appropriate, independently managed ATSI legal services; review RCIADIC recommendations; undertake review of current alternative sentencing mechanisms and identify gaps in services; adopt alternative sentencing mechanisms.
Strategies: Promote holistic approaches to addressing health through training of all health professionals in Indigenous concepts of health; monitor delivery of services to ensure reporting on actual expenditures, achievements, consistency and program under - expenditure; advocate
culturally appropriate access to services / programs;
support increased employment of Indigenous health professionals; advocate
culturally coordinated service delivery amongst various agencies.
Rights and Recognition: To promote the inherent rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia Strategies: Fund Aboriginal legal services to provide accessible and affordable protection of individual and community rights within the criminal justice system; advocate for further innovations in community justice programs including the expansion of diversionary programs; advocate and monitor peer
support, pre and post release, prison art, train the trainer, vocational training and work experience, as well as other
culturally appropriate rehabilitation programs within the correctional system; encourage CDEPs to participate in post-release programs.
Providing Specialist services onsite at the Mount Isa Clinic means that
culturally appropriate and team - based care can be
supported.
During your placement, you will be
supported by your GP Supervisor and a cultural mentor who will guide you throughout your placement with opportunities to participate in the delivery of
culturally -
appropriate comprehensive Primary Health Care services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a variety of clinic - based services, community events and outreach to remote communities.
Traditional government recruitment and selection processes can be daunting and unfamiliar, therefore Vic DOJ has implemented strategies to ensure recruitment and selection processes are more
culturally appropriate in addition to encouraging and
supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants through each stage of the process.
a.) Ensure a wide range of
culturally appropriate, evidence - based parent
support and education services are available and easily accessible throughout the state for all types of families beginning prenatally; b.) Build a well - trained and highly qualified infant - toddler workforce across disciplines; c.) Engage families in identifying parent
support and education needs; d.) Expand and develop initiatives to encourage breastfeeding; e.) Complete the process to develop a Parent Guide for the New Jersey Birth to Three Learning Standards; and f.) Improve health insurance coverage for parent education and mental health services.