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_ Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Annual Report 2014–2015 Contact Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (Aboriginal Corporation) Gate 2, 3 Wilkinson Street Alice Springs NT 0870 (PO Box 8921 Alice Springs NT 0871) Phone: (08) 8958 2345 Fax: (08) 8952 3742 Email: [email protected] Website: www.npywc.org.au Tjanpi Desert Weavers: www.tjanpi.com.au Remote offices: Umuwa SA: (08) 8956 7271 Wingellina WA: (08) 8956 7160 Warburton WA: (08) 8954 6085 Warakurna WA: (08) 8956 2836 Finke NT: (08) 8956 0941 Imanpa NT: (08) 8954 6067 Docker River NT: (08) 8955 833 Yulara NT: (08) 8956 3086 2 | NPY Women’s Council – Annual Report 2014–2015 Contents 3 Our History 5 Organisational Structure 6 Management Report 10 Domestic Violence Service 12 Child And Family Wellbeing Service 14 Youth Program 18 Tjungu Service 20 Ngangkari Program 22 Tjanpi Desert Weavers 24 Finance Report NPY Women’s Council – Annual Report 2014–2015 | 3 Our History Who We Are violence, child protection, policing and other safety issues, being of people in the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and and the needs and aspirations of young people. Yankunytjatjara region; NPY Women’s Council (also NPYWC )represents women • establish, provide and promote the artistic and in the region which has an over-all Aboriginal (Anangu or Programs include the highly regarded Domestic and cultural interests of Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yarnangu) population of around 6000. Its membership Family Violence Service, Tri-state Disability Service, Aged Yankunytjatjara women; area covers a vast, remote, semi-arid expanse of some Advocacy and Support, Carer Respite Service, Ngangkari • promote and support the achievements and authority 350,000 square kilometres. (traditional healers), and the Youth and Child Nutrition of Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Programs. More than four hundred women work in fibre women; The idea for a women’s organisation in the region arose art and other products including bush medicine and • gather and provide information about issues during the South Australian Pitjantjatjara Land Rights beanies to sell to Tjanpi (grass) Desert Weavers, the NPY of importance to Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara movement in the late 1970s. The women felt their needs Women’s Council social enterprise. Staff may either be and Yankunytjatjara women and to the broader were not being addressed and so established their own based in the region or undertake extensive travel in order community; organisation, with the first meeting held at Kanpi in South to do their work. • promote and encourage the law and culture of Australia in 1980. Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Governance women; NPY Women’s Council is incorporated under the • support and encourage other women and Our elected Directors are all women from the NPY region, Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act organisations who work towards similar aims. and number up to twelve. There is a Chairperson and 2006 (Cth.) or CATSI Act. The regulating body is the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC.) Vice-Chairperson. The Directors meet at least quarterly to discuss programs and priorities and other issues of interest Under the Constitution, or rule book, membership is open to members. All members are invited to attend an AGM The Guiding Principles to any woman who is at least 16 years of age, is Aboriginal and usually at least one other general meeting held out bush in the NPY region each year, to receive reports from and is from the NPY region and or whom the Directors • ngapartji ngapartji kulinma munu iwara consider to have sufficient cultural or family connection to Directors and staff and to provide referrals, responses to the region. She must be deemed by the Directors to be of service delivery and ongoing direction. wananma tjukarurungku - respect each good character and willing to follow the guiding principles other and follow the law straight of the organisation (see below). Objectives • kalypangku - conciliatory NPYWC aims to: Our members reside in the region, in almost thirty • Provide a forum for Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and • piluntjungku - peaceful and calm communities, and in small homelands and outstations. A Yankunytjatjara women to discuss their concerns; • kututu mukulyangku - kind-hearted few live in Alice Springs or other towns or cities, mainly for • assist and encourage the representation and their own or other family members’ health reasons. participation of women from the Ngaanyatjarra, • tjungungku - united Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara region on local, • kunpungku - strong Our Work regional and other relevant bodies; While NPYWC began as an advocacy organisation for • help individual women and girls to achieve further women in the Central tri-State area, it is now also a major training, education and employment; provider of human services to women and their families • establish, provide and or promote services to improve in the region. It remains a strong voice for its members the health and safety, education and general well- on issues such as substance abuse, domestic and family 4 | NPY Women’s Council – Annual Report 2014–2015 Organisational Structure Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (Aboriginal Corporation) Organisational Chart Elected Directors Oct 2013 - Oct 2015 Meredith Simms Marlene Young Carleen Thompson Maxine Stewart Margaret Smith Elsie Wanatjura - Warburton - Tjukurla - Ernabella - Indulkana - Imanpa - Mutitjulu CHAIRPERSON DEPUTY CHAIR Nura Davidson Yanyi Bandicha Ingrid Simms Nyunmiti Burton Julie Anderson Janet Inyika - Blackstone - Ernabella -Jameson - Amata -Finke -Alice Springs CEO DEPUTY CEO Andrea Mason Liza Balmer People & Executive Assistant Corporate Services Workplace Services Jade Galpin Finance Administration Child and family Domestive & Wellbeing Services “The NPY Women’s Council initiative Family Violence Tjungu Team Youth Team Service in starting the Domestic Violence Human Child Nutrition Services Service 20 years ago was ground Walytjapiti breaking for a number of reasons. Tjanpi Desert Ngangkari First of all, it was courageous.” Weavers Child Advocacy Prof Marcia Langton AM NPY Women’s Council – Annual Report 2014–2015 | 5 Management Report Governance is certainly an area where we are planning to improve, especially in substantive positions. This year has been an opportunity to strengthen the governance model of the organisation, fine tune NPY Women’s Council has consistently managed systems and procedures to improve our service an annual grant income in excess of $11million, delivery productivity in the region, consolidate represented by 46 different funding agreements. key relationships in the region, such as partners We currently maintain 28 leased or owned and supporters of the Empowered Communities properties and manage a fleet of 79 vehicles project and Jawun, and implement a long term including trailers, a camper trailer and a 4WD bus. sustainable financial model for the organisation. The organisation’s five year strategic plan (2014- The 2014 Annual General Meeting was scheduled 2018) provides teams with the structure to report for September 2014, however due to significant against annual operational plans. It is pleasing sorry business at that time, and with the approval of that overall, all teams are on target to achieve the ORIC, the Annual General Meeting was re-scheduled majority of service and advocacy goals for the year. to March 2015. At this meeting, members had the opportunity to hear reports on service delivery and to raise issues or matters of concern with Funding relevant staff or Directors. During the 2014-2015 Similar to other Indigenous incorporated organisations financial year, the Directors met in July, September, in the not for profit sector, with a grass roots November 2014, and in February and May 2015. membership, NPY Women’s Council’s operational funding model relies on adequate grant income During the year, the management group met to fund the operational expenses of NPY Women’s fortnightly to discuss operational and strategic issues Council. This year the organisation identified the and an all staff meeting was held each month. At need to diversify its financial model to incorporate these monthly meetings, staff have the opportunity more funding from the corporate and philanthropic to raise any issues and to hear relevant updates from sectors as well as individual donations, if it is to Andrea Mason CEO the Chief Executive Officer, Deputy Chief Executive continue its reform and regional development role Officer and managers about progress in relation to in the NPY region. While the organisation received key service and advocacy areas. The annual staff day a significant level of funding from government was held in February 2015, this event offers staff and (Commonwealth Government:63.20%, SA “I have been thinking that we directors the opportunity to discuss our services and Government:19.23%, WA Government:11.18%, NT women should hold our own key advocacy topics and to ensure all of these matters Government:1.72% and Others:4.67%) unfortunately are delivered through an integrated approach as well the funding overall is below the cost of the actual women’s meeting. We should think as aligned to the cultural knowledge of our members. cost of service delivery in remote Australia. about having our own female NPY Women’s Council employs just over 80 full- For a number of years NPY Women’s