Strategic Forum: Report

Old Parliament House, Wednesday 10 February 2016

Prepared by Fleur Smith Policy Officer, SNAICC [email protected]

Table of Contents Overview & Key Outcomes ...... 3 Welcome to Country ...... 3 Introduction, acknowledgements & purpose ...... 3 The imperative for change ...... 4 Building a Coalition for Change ...... 5 Identifying priorities across ...... 5 Australian Capital Territory ...... 6 ...... 6 Queensland ...... 6 South Australia ...... 7 Victoria & Tasmania ...... 7 Western Australia ...... 7 National Level Sector Discussions ...... 8 Justice ...... 8 Evidence Base ...... 8 Child Protection & Family Support ...... 9 Health ...... 9 Campaign Strategic Priorities ...... 9 Discussion and agreement on Family Matters Strategic Priorities ...... 9 Building a coalition for change ...... 10 Securing national commitment ...... 10 Supporting state & territory based strategies ...... 10 Supporting and Empowering Communities ...... 11 Establishing a monitoring and reporting framework ...... 11 Securing National Commitment ...... 12 Family Matters governance structure, roles and responsibilities ...... 12 Jurisdictional Working Groups ...... 12 National Champions Group & Family Matter Strategic Alliance ...... 13 Financial commitment to Family Matters ...... 13 Appendix A: Forum Attendees ...... 14 Appendix B: Governance Structure & Roles & Responsibilities ...... 16 Family Matters Roles & Responsibilities Matrix ...... 17

2 Overview & Key Outcomes The Family Matters: kids safe in culture not in care Strategic Forum held on 10 February 2016 in Canberra was attended by 106 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous leaders from 73 organisations Australia-wide. For a full list of Forum attendees, refer to Appendix A.

The intentions of the Forum were to engage potential partners in the Family matters initiative, agree to high level strategic directions for the campaign, increase the Family Matters presence across Australia by establishing Working Groups in every state and territory, and secure commitment to the campaign from a broad range of stakeholders.

All aims and desired outcomes were met, with attendees confirming their support for the Family Matters policy priorities and strategic directions and committing to establishing Family Maters Working Groups in all jurisdictions represented at the Forum.

Several forum participants offered their knowledge and expertise as members of the Family Matters Champions Group, which will be driving the Family Matters campaign. Many more organisations indicated their willingness to contribute to the campaign as members of a broader Strategic Alliance.

Financial commitments to the campaign were also strong. In addition to the generous support already pledged by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation and KARI Aboriginal Resources, Inc., over $60,000 was committed to the Family Matters campaign by leaders present at the Forum.

Welcome to Country Forum participants were welcomed to country by -Ngunnawal elder, Aunty Matilda House.

Introduction, acknowledgements & purpose Jodie Sizer welcomed forum participants and acknowledged sponsors and supporters of Family Matters and the Strategic Forum.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation Platinum Sponsor Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Platinum Sponsor KARI Aboriginal Resources, Inc. Gold Sponsor Uniting Care Wesley Country South Australia Bronze Sponsor PricewaterhouseCoopers Indigenous Consulting Pro bono facilitation Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House Sponsorship, Strategic Forum

Jodie informed attendees of the aims and desired outcomes for the day: 1) To share the core principles and priorities of the Family Maters campaign with key stakeholders from across Australia 2) To explore priorities and strategies for change across Australia, and 3) To secure national commitment to Family Matters, including: • Establishing a framework for collaboration • Agreeing to high level strategic priorities, and • Securing ongoing financial support for this vital campaign

3 The imperative for change

“The right of our children to their culture, along with other core human rights of children – to life, to family, to protection – are non-negotiable.“

Andrew Jackomos, Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, gave a moving speech on the cultural requirements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and the organisational culture of child protection and funded agencies.

Commissioner Jackomos told Forum attendees:

• That while Aboriginal children share the same rights as all other Australian children, often these rights are not fully realised in child protection systems. • In a 12 month period there was a 42% growth in the number of Aboriginal children in the Victorian child protection system. • Organisational attitudes are crucial to addressing this issue; without transparency, accountability and professionalism, the cultural rights of children will not be met. • There are many positive things happening in Victoria at the moment, including reinvigorated community advocacy and increasingly positive working relationships with Government, as well as significant work in the Department to bolster the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle. • Children’s rights are not discretionary and they are not debateable. They should not be subject to available resources. • Through the Taskforce 1000 project, Commissioner Jackomos has heard in person the stories of over 1000 Aboriginal children currently in out of home care in Victoria; most of whom are case managed by non-Aboriginal organisations. • Particularly given the overwhelming majority of children being case managed outside the community controlled space, accountability and a positive organisational culture are fundamental to providing an effective child protection system. They are essential ingredients of good governance. • Taskforce 1000 has revealed systematic failures, including very long delays on Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making meetings, and a lack of appropriate health care and health checks for children in care. When a six-year-old child in guardianship to the State from birth has had all their teeth extracted due to neglect, who is at fault? • Commissioner Jackomos plans to initiate a further Commission inquiry into the police follow up of sexual allegations and abuse of Aboriginal children in out of home care in Victoria. There is a shortfall in trauma counselling for children and a failure to engage children in education; who takes ultimate responsibility for these failures? • Each of these failures increases the likelihood of a child coming into contact with the youth justice system. • Many children remain disconnected from kin because no one takes the initiative. • We need greater scrutiny and transparency in the child protection system. • “The message that Government agencies caring for our vulnerable children need to embrace is that culture, their culture, is not a ‘perk’ for an Aboriginal child – it is a birth right.”

Andrew Jackomos’ speech is available to download here.

4 Building a Coalition for Change

Forum participants heard from Natalie Lewis, CEO, Queensland Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) and a member of the SNAICC National Executive, and Simon Schrapel, Chief Executive, Uniting Communities South Australia.

Natalie and Simon are both members of the current Family Matters National Coordinating Group The presentation given by Natalie and Simon informed participants of the Family Matters journey to date, and the the development of the four priority principles which guide the campaign:

Strengthening Families: Governments increasing support for families and communities, including through targeted and intensive support services, and Indigenous leadership in the design and delivery of integrated child and family services.

Participation: Government embedding processes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in decision-making for the care and protection of children – through guardianship models, family and kin decision-making and Indigenous support services.

Healing: Government recognition and support to address the deep trauma experienced by many of our communities, including through opportunities to develop our own healing approaches.

Accountability: Governments embedding accountability to Indigenous priorities into Australia’s child protection and family support systems – including oversight roles like the Aboriginal Children’s Commissioner in Victoria.

The presentation also introducedd five potential strategic directions for Family Matters over the next three years, and some targets agains each of these: Build a coalition for change to lead strategy development and implementation; Secure national commitment to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child safety and to prioritise early intervention through Coalition of Australian Government (COAG) targets; Support and empower community advocacy to reduce child removal; Establish and promote a monitoring and reporting framework to measure government progress on key policy imperatives; and Support strategic state/territory based strategies that create precedents or embed innovation in Indigenous child safety law, policy and practice.

The presentation is available to download in full from the Strategic Directions page on the Family Matters website.

Identifying priorities across Australia

Forum attendees participated in small group conversations to discuss current activities and developments in their own jurisdictions and/or sectors, and to identify top-level priorities to redress over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out of home care. Key points from each discussion are highlighted below.

5 Australian Capital Territory • The ACT is currently an uncertain operating environment as the A Step Up for Our Kids framework has just been re-tendered; there is ongoing uncertainty over the feasibility and capacity of the ACT child protection system. • There is no community controlled child care service in the ACT, although Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service provides a wide range of services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families as a default support. These activities are currently unfunded. • There is a fundamental lack of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce.y

The key priority for the ACT is funding for service delivery by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisation for vital services to children and families.

New South Wales • New permanency placement legislation came into effect in NSW in October 2014. • New South Wales is moving towards establishing outcomes-based frameworks in out of home care, which is a positive step. • There are significant issues with current processes of identification of Aboriginality, which in fact are more like de-identification, where a child’s status may be removed from their records or not recorded.

• In NSW the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (ACPP), in its spirit, is not being applied. Some of the issues relating to the application of the ACPP are within Section 13 of the current Act. One priority for NSW is to examine the Act and determine whether there is sufficient guidance for the Court in its application to ensure that this is consistent with the spirit of the principle and the expectations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. • Another priority is to explore different approaches to strengthen the ACPP in NSW to ensure that the application of the ACPP meets community expectations, beginning with a review of its current application. • New South Wales also needs to focus more on preservation and reunification and needs an increased focus on early intervention, led by AbSec, Aboriginal Legal Services and The Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR). • The GMAR Guiding Principles for strengthening the participation of the local Aboriginal community in child-protection decision-making, which were adopted in November 2015 in the Hunter New England area, should be adopted state-wide.

Queensland • Queensland is currently undergoing a period of multiple reforms. Several consultation processes are happening simultaneously; there is a danger of tick-box responses. • Queensland is fortunate to have peaks in mainstream and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child protection, with strong sector relationships. Cross-departmental work is happening and coalitions (at the government level) are now forming. • There is now acknowledgement by government of the importance of not entering the fray on key decisions. This reflects increased support for and trust in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled sector, as well as in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families themselves, but there’s still a long way to go.

6 South Australia • South Australia is faring quite poorly. Although over-representation rates are just at parity with national figures (rather than higher), South Australia is way behind the rest of the nation in terms of investment in early intervention and prevention. • South Australia has the highest number of children in residential care being run by the state. • There is very little investment in development of the Aboriginal community controlled service system. • There is no available kinship care assessment tool that is culturally sound for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and the kinship care system is in danger of collapse. • Families SA employs Aboriginal Cultural Consultants but there is a lack of both visibility and accountability, and little follow through. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sections within the South Australian department need to be expanded • Children in foster care are being placed in inappropriate accommodation. They are living in motels and hotels, caravan parks and inappropriate residential care especially for very young children. • The funding for reparations to the Stolen Generations and community healing (recently covered in SA legislation) should be increased to better respond to intergenerational trauma.

• One key priority for South Australia is increased investment in early intervention, at least to match the national average. • A second priority is research and tools to assess the competency of state funded non-Indigenous workers; and finally • Accountability measures need to be developed to hold governments to account with specific measures and targets established for Aboriginal children.

Victoria & Tasmania

*many of the child protection system issues currently faced in Victoria are outlined in Andrew Jackomos’ keynote speech, which is available to download here.

• The Beyond Good Intentions Statement was released in Victoria in December 2015 by the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (CFECFW) and non-Aboriginal organisations are getting behind it. • We don’t talk enough or explicitly enough about poverty as a driver of family dysfunction and a root cause of child removals.

• Victorian systems need to be action-oriented and accountable; there is a lot to learn from the forthcoming Taskforce 1000 report • Andrew Jackomos’ role in Victoria has been pivotal Aboriginal Children’s Commissioners are needed in every state and territory • A potential approach for Family Matters campaign would be to start the radical reform process in one state and them pick up and implement in other jurisdictions

Western Australia • There is a Nyungar (Noongar) word, winyan, which translates as “very very sorry”. This sums up the current environment around child protection; it is very difficult to elicit action to address past and present issues. Western Australia is a very conservative state, and effecting attitudinal change in child protection practices is particularly challenging. • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s right to culture should not be forsaken. This is currently a major issue in Western Australia.

7 • There is a very concerning drive currently towards expedited permanency planning, which sees children in the system for 12 months accorded permanent guardianship orders until the age of 18. This is a real concern for reducing reunification reducing which is already not happening. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids are losing their culture and their connection to family. o Currently no funding going into reunification. It is funded only for some mainstream services under IFSS program.

The group identified a number of priorities, including: o increasing accountability for the way in which mainstream services care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. This would be best achieved through resourcing a peak body; o challenging the permanency planning moves and gather evidence on the poor outcomes from permanency planning; and o Funding reunification services and drive this agenda as the best means of achieving a permanency agenda National Level Sector Discussions

Justice

Summary • There is a strong nexus between out of home care, incarceration and incidence of family violence; research that proves this connection should be used as our advocacy platform for reform, including narrative testimony (case studies as part of our advocacy). • There is evidence of an “attack” on the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle; we have heard even today that there is evidence on non compliance, but the rhetoric /counter evidence claims there is no need for the Principle to begin with; this is incredibly dangerous rhetoric. • There is a marked need for increased specialist advocacy and community education on their rights.

Priorities • Review of the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle across all jurisdictions • Put pressure on governments to investigate the full application of the ACPP in child protection services and courts and instigate appropriate law reform and/or policy change to uphold the ACPP. • Prioritise specialist advocacy and sharing basic information on rights with communities

Evidence Base

Key focus area 1: Accountability This group identified 2 key focus areas: accountability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and cultural evidence.

In relation to accountability, key points were that: • It is a fiction that merely establishing an evidence base will drive change – often policy is not based on evidence. Family Matters needs to advocate policy development in line with the evidence • Strong support for the development of a monitoring framework and report card; accountability mechanisms for the implementation of evidence based policy are critical to success • Monitoring framework should measure outcomes for children and families and reporting on outcomes needs to capture strengths and positives, not just focus on the deficits • Accountability framework should be linked to roles like the Aboriginal Children’s Commissioner that can hold governments to account for failing to invest and make changes and needs to target accountability at different levels: national, state, governments, mainstream organisations etc.

8 On Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and cultural evidence, the group noted that the knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities needs to be privileged and that we need to capture and leverage off community practice based evidence that challenges ways of working that have failed. Family Matters should drive the scaling up of what works in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Child Protection & Family Support • Politicians need to be sensitive to community concerns and value the role of children, and their rights; we should build a political environment that achieves this. • We needs peaks, everywhere, to spread the word about innovations that work. • We need Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s Commissioners everywhere. • We need education on what early intervention and meanings/norms are: understanding is needed at every level including in families themselves. • We need to foster knowledge-sharing and a sense of commonality. • There must be more focus on reunification and resourcing. This requires a whole-of-government approach; centralised, pooled resources and integrated policy and program delivery.

Health • We want reciprocal information sharing at all stages of policy development, program and service delivery; consultation, review, monitoring and evaluation. • Funding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations should be redirected from mainstream service providers (message at COAG level). • Funding silos are destructive; for example, the PM&C takeover of SEWB and A&D supports. • We need long term commitments, beyond three year funding rounds; there has been some improvements on this in recent years but there’s still a long way to go and workforce support is still a priority issue. • Mental health and alcohol and drug treatment services should be primary preventive focus in the health and early childhood space.

Campaign Strategic Priorities Discussion and agreement on Family Matters Strategic Priorities

The only amendment raised for the Family Matters Strategic Priorities was that support for communities should not be restricted to advocacy alone; (Muriel Bamblett). There was consensus for this amendment, and the new strategic direction is simply “Supporting and Empowering Communities.”

Participants held group discussions to identify key actions and priorities for each of the five Family Matters Strategic Directions of building a coalition for change, securing national commitment, supporting state & territory based strategies, supporting and empowering communities and establishing a monitoring and reporting framework.

The key points raised in each discussion are highlighted below.

9 Building a coalition for change

Key Points • We need to use language that is inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and puts them at the centre, and set out how they will be engaged to inform our key messages • We should recognise this issue as a social issue in relation to broader issues of poverty and multi- dimensional disadvantage, and work in harmony with work that is already happening at the national level, including: ü through the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children Third Action Plan 2015-2018, and ü pre-existing social justice and social equity campaigns including Close the Gap and Change the Record. • Family Matters should develop a clear statement of intent that people can sign up to and attain multi-partisan support for the statement, to drive accountability • Targets for our national coalition to achieve (statement of intent) should include: ü increase connection to culture for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in care ü decrease removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and culture ü increasing reunifications within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families

Securing national commitment • We need to first specify a clear and achievable target. • Need to lobby both federally and at state and territory levels; COAG is state-driven. This would be greatly facilitated by the existence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child and family peaks in every jurisdiction. Use the momentum of 2016 as a federal election year. • When a target is set, we need to ensure: ü a funding mechanism to match it; funding is needed to address both over representation in OOHC and under representation in early childhood education ü a concrete action plan to meet every component of the agreed target

Supporting state & territory based strategies

Key focus area 1: Community controlled organisations and peak bodies • There is no Aboriginal community controlled child and family service organisation in the ACT, and no peak body in the NT, Tasmania, WA; there are huge coverage gaps for Aboriginal agencies and peaks across the country • Peak bodies have driven growth and development of the community-controlled sector in states like NSW and QLD, and are needed to drive self determination everywhere around the country • Family Matters could sit with mob in each state and territory to discuss the services and peak bodies that are needed to meet children and families’ needs and drive the agenda for establishing those services • Family Matters should seek a high-level policy commitment in every state and territory to establishing a peak and full coverage of community controlled services.

Key focus area 2: Review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle • We need to go back to looking at what is required for compliance, aligned with a holistic understanding of the elements and purpose of the Principle as reflected in the third action plan for the National Framework • A legislative review of the Principle is needed – but it should go broader than that to review the enabling environment for the Principle

10 • We need to identify, consider and work on the specific issues that impede commitment to, a genuine understanding of, and effective implementation of the Principle

Key focus area 3: Targeting investment to the front end – early intervention • We need to target advocacy to drive early intervention investment in every Australian state and territory • Balance must be maintained when investing in early intervention to make sure that tertiary services are adequately resources

Supporting and Empowering Communities

Key Priorities • Implement a Family Matters national day of action, with locally supported actions across Australia • Develop and promote accessible resources for community to understand and act on the issue, including educating and informing families and communities on their own rights and opportunities. ü Work with leaders in communities to understand the rights and opportunities to strengthen their role as local champions ü Investing in and strengthening existing community leaders and community led processes. Recognise needs to place based and flexible approach • Promote effective local actions and processes to spread the positive stories • Resource local Aboriginal communities to drive this work and where the need is identified, advocate for set up of ne Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisations to support children and families • Privileging and promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural models of care • Engage, educate and hold mainstream services accountable for the cultural safety and human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families • We need to include for in strategy some clear principles; it is vital to ensure that this strategy remains about supporting communities to build their capacities to deal with community business.

Broader issues discussed • Shift in discourse around Aboriginality, change the messaging and engaging in the media. Giving value to Aboriginal culture • Shifting the paradigm – we need to Reframe Aboriginality from being seen as a risk to a strength • Engagement with and development of capacity of the judiciary and legal profession is a gap in the Family Matters strategic directions. This should be considered as a separate limb recognise the cultural intelligence and expertise and working with cultural respect.

Establishing a monitoring and reporting framework

Comments • There is strong support for a report card framework - (to be used by government, services, families) • Think carefully about power and quality of data and who administers or verifies the data. Interrogate, analyse, avoid a tick-a-box model • Questioned role of an independent agency champions • Will this be a community-led tool? Or an organisationally-led tool, like the existing NGO Close the Gap Report Card (Progress and Priorities Report) model? • The budget allocated for the development of an evaluation tool in the Family Matters funding proposal is quite modest; what about in kind costs?

11 • We should first consider all available measurement and proxy measurement sources, particularly where there are free or low cost data sources, and bring together existing data sets to avoid duplication • Counter the victim blaming narrative through evaluation; for example, by incorporating into the framework reporting some strengths based case studies • Control access to data, to build on the national child protection framework agreement about the Aboriginal Placement Principle, using this as a means to assess compliance with the Principle as a report card mechanism

Priorities /next steps • Holding governments to account – are they meeting their stated intent? – develop a national monitoring framework as an urgent action • Report on progress towards the Family Matters vision through this framework (as currently happens through Close the Gap) • Investment in prevention and participation is crucial and we must record this as accurately as is feasible • Need to measure outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families, not just out/through-puts

Securing National Commitment Family Matters governance structure, roles and responsibilities Jodie introduced Forum attendees to the proposed governance structure, roles and responsibilities for members of the Family matters campaign. These documents are available as Appendix B.

Jurisdictional Working Groups Forum attendees agreed to form a Family Matters Working Group in each Australian State and Territory. Members of Jurisdictional working groups will be members of the strategic alliance but will have additional roles. Working Groups will be composed of stakeholders engaged at the state or territory level and keen to participate in state focused change efforts. Jurisdictional working groups will:

• Identify and act on core change priorities through a jurisdictional work-plan • Meet as needed to implement core change priorities • Identify two members who will sit on the Champions Group

SNAICC and members of the current coordination group for Family matters undertook to make sure that Forum attendees from each jurisdiction would receive a list of contacts from their jurisdiction who attended the Forum, to facilitate the process of developing Jurisdictional Working Groups.

12 National Champions Group & Family Matter Strategic Alliance

Several forum participants offered their knowledge and expertise as members of the Family Matters Champions Group, which will be riving the Family Matters campaign. Many more organisations indicated their willingness to contribute to the campaign as members of a broader Strategic Alliance. Organisations to offer their expertise as part of the Champions Group included:

• Anglicare Victoria • Oxfam Australia • The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation • The Victorian Aboriginal Children and Young People’s Alliance • The Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young people • Professor Ted Wilkes on behalf of other Western Australian representatives; commitment to at least one representative on the Champions Group

Many more organisations indicated their interest in becoming members of the broader Strategic Alliance: • First Peoples Disability Network • Lowitja Institute • UNICEF • ANTaR • The Change the Record Coalition • Reconciliation Australia • Western Australian Council of Social Service • Family Relationship Services Australia

Financial commitment to Family Matters Financial commitments to the campaign were also strong. In addition to the generous support already pledged by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation and KARI Aboriginal Resources, Inc., over $60,000 was pledged to the Family Matters campaign by leaders present at the Forum.

Organisations which pledged Gold level sponsorship (at least $10,000) included: • The Victorian Commission for Children and Young People (through Andrew Jackomos) • Life Without Barriers • Anglicare Victoria • The Benevolent Society • The Queensland Family & Child Commission • Peakcare (Queensland)

Other organisations which pledged financial support for Family Matters included: • Uniting Care Wesley Country South Australia • Jaanimilli (Uniting Care) • The Foundation for Indigenous Recovery and Development Australia • Indigenous Allied Health Australia • New South Wales Council of Social Service (NCOSS)

The ACT Council of Social Service and Reconciliation Australia also indicated their willingness to provide small grants to Family Matters.

13 Appendix A: Forum Attendees

Organisation Attendees Organisation Attendees Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lisa Hillan Centre for Excellence in Child and Deb Tsorbaris Healing Foundation Family Welfare Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Jennifer Change the Record Campaign Shannon Service (QLD) Ekanayake Longhurst Aboriginal Child, Family and Community Paul Gray Child and Family South Australia Albert Barelds Care State Secretariat (NSW) (AbSec) Aboriginal Family Legal Service (Perth) Mariette Child Wise (Vic) Penelope Cowley McEncroe Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (SA) Cheryl Axelby Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Janine Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives Mohamed (CATSINaM) Aboriginal Legal Services NSW & ACT Gary Oliver CREATE Foundation Garry Faumui Gemma Slack- Curtin University, WA Ted Wilkes Smith ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Diane Collins Early Childhood Australia Glenda Kickett Elected Body Tjanara Early Childhood Australia Samantha Goreng Page Goreng ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS) Susan Helyar Families Australia Brian Babington Amnesty International Roxanne Family Relationship Services Australia Adam Heaton Moore Anglicare Australia Roland Jackie Brady Manderson Sarah Jewell Family Violence Prevention Legal Andrew Service Victoria Gargett Anglicare NSW South, NSW West, ACT Ann Ponsonby Antoinette Braybrook Jeremy First Peoples Disability Network Scott Avery Halcrow Anglicare SA Caitlyn Hughes Grandmothers Against Removals Bronwyn (GMAR) Williams Estelle Debbie Swan Paterson Anglicare Victoria Paul Hazel Collins McDonald ANTaR Australia Andrew Jennifer Swan Meehan Jane Powles Paddy Gibson Australian Human Rights Commission Paul Wright Patricia MacKenzie Robynne Suellyn Tighe Quiggin Australian Indigenous Doctors Association Anita Mills Tass Georgetown Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Kelly Hand Indigenous Allied Health Australia Donna Murray Australian Research Alliance for Children Charlene Jaanimili Aboriginal Services & Kathy and Youth (ARACY) Smith Development Unit McKenzie Barnardos Kerry Moore Jumbunna, University of Technology Larissa Sydney Behrendt

14 Organisation Attendees Organisation Attendees Benevolent Society Matt Gardiner Life Without Barriers (SA) Jane Longbottom Catholic Social Services Australia Ingrid Hatfield Lowitja Institute Pat Anderson Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Emma Islander Child Care (SNAICC) Sydenham Romlie Mokak Fleur Smith MacKillop Family Services Ché Stockley Frank Hytten Macquarie University Francesca Gerry Moore Dominello Menzies School of Health Research Heather John Burton D'Antoine National Aboriginal and Torres Strait KearlyWarner Society of St Vincent De Paul John Falzon Islander Legal Service (NATSILS) Sarah Down South Australian Council of Social Ross Service (SACOSS) Womersley National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Tracey Currie- UNICEF Nicole Breeze Islander Women's Alliance (NATSIWA) Dillon National Congress of Australia's First Rod Little Tara Broughan Peoples Northern Territory Council of Social Service Wendy Uniting Care Wesley Country (SA) Andrew (NTCOSS) Morton Hadert NPY Women's Council Mel Kean Uniting Communities NSW & ACT Melissa Brown Nyunmiti Uniting Communities South Australia Simon Burton Schrapel NSW Office of the Advocate for Children Angie UnitingCare Australia Tanya Von and Youg People Wilkinson Ahlefeldt Oxfam Australia Justin McCaul University of Sydney Vanessa Lee Peter Lewis University of Technology, Sydney Teresa Libesman Peakcare (Queensland) Lindsay Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Muriel Wegener Agency (VACCA) Bamblett Tracey Smith Sue-Anne Hunter PricewaterhouseCoopers Indigenous Jodie Sizer Victorian Aboriginal Community Dana Pyne Consulting (Facilitator) Controlled Health Organisation Protecting Aboriginal Children Together Kenneth Kane (VACCHO) Jill Gallagher (PACT) NSW Robin Roberts Victorian Aboriginal Education Geraldine Association (VAEAI) Atkinson Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Natalie Lewis Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Wayne Muir Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) Queensland Family and Child Commission Andrea Lauchs Victorian Commissioner for Andrew Aboriginal Children and Young People Jackomos Reconciliation Australia Emma Western Australian Council of Social Sue Nye Hedditch Service (WACOSS) Julia Driver Winnunga Jon Stanhope Phoebe Dent Julie Tongs Save the Children Elizabeth Mildwater

Return to report

15 Appendix B: Governance Structure & Roles & Responsibilities

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE 1. Attendance at annual Strategic Alliance meetings 2. Support advocacy efforts 3. Silver & bronze level sponsorship 4. Supporting community engagement strategies

5. Input & review of research & policy 6. Communications & marketing support

JURISDICTIONAL GROUPS 1. Driving and implementing jurisdictional strategies 2. Two members of each group in Champions Group

Australian Capital New South Wales Territory Jurisdictional Group Jurisdictional Group Queensland Victoria Jurisdictional Group Jurisdictional Group

Northern Territory CHAMPIONS GROUP Tasmania Jurisdictional Group 1. Attendance at quarterly Champions Group meetings Jurisdictional Group 2. Change champions & spokespeople 3. Philanthropic investors & gold level sponsorship 4. Driving community engagement 5. Coordination of Jurisdictional Working Groups Western Australia 6. Drivers of research & policy development South Australia Jurisdictional Group 7. Communications & marketing development Jurisdictional Group

Family Matters Roles & Responsibilities Matrix As a potential member of the Family Matters Strategic Alliance, how do you see yourself and/or your organisation contributing?

Jurisdictional Financial Community Communications Advocacy Evidence Base Policy development Change Support Engagement & Marketing Management

Gold level Driving community Contribution to Contribution to Family Comms & Marketing Lead Jurisdictional Champion sponsor over 3 engagement strategy Family Matters Matters Policy development development Working Group years development Research CHAMPIONS GROUP Direct responsibilities Silver level Review of Membership of Advocacy for community Review of Family Matters sponsor over 3 Family Matters Comms & Marketing advice Jurisdictional strategist engagement Policy development years research Working Group activities

Advocacy support Support for Comms & Marketing support Small recurring Comment on Support for & uptake of key community Comment on Family via promoting key messages investment Family Matters Jurisdictional Family Matters engagement Matters policy development with members, on social over 3 years research Working Group messages activities media, etc Sharing of policy outcomes Information Information sharing Sharing of (submissions, position Information sharing STRATEGIC Once off sharing with your for community research statements, etc) and Information sharing only with Jurisdictional ALLIANCE seeding grant networks engagement outcomes allowing use of logo on key Working Group documents

Not at all/ not Not at all/ not Not at all/ not Not at all/ not Not at all/ not Not at all/ not applicable Not at all/ not applicable applicable applicable applicable applicable applicable

Unsure at this Unsure at this Unsure at this Unsure at this stage: Unsure at this stage: for Unsure at this stage: for follow Unsure at this stage: stage: for follow stage: for stage: for follow for follow up follow up up for follow up up follow up up

Return to report

17