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YAPAKURLANGU FAMILY & COMMUNITY VIOLENCE REPORT for ANYINGINYI HEALTH ABORIGINAL CORPORATION and its Piliyintinji-ki Section (‘Stronger Families’) by Paul Memmott & Associates [PMA] St Lucia Final Draft of 5th March 2007 List of Contents LIST OF CONTENTS PAGE NO. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................. II LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................ XII CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 1 Background to Anyinginyi and Piliyintinji-ki ......................................................................................................... 1 Relevance of the Yapakurlangu Family Violence Regional Activities Program (FVRAP) ................................... 2 Consultancy Objectives and Components ........................................................................................................... 2 Project components ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Consultation Record ............................................................................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER 2: A HISTORY AND PROFILE OF PILIYINTINJI-KI ................................................................................ 7 The History of the Piliyintinji-ki Section ................................................................................................................ 7 The pre-planning of the Piliyintinji-ki Stronger Families Program during 2003-2004 ........................................... 7 The Piliyintinji-ki Stronger Families Program during 2004-2005 .......................................................................... 7 Piliyintinji-ki events in 2005-2006 ........................................................................................................................ 9 Piliyintinji-ki events during 2006-2007 ............................................................................................................... 12 The Name ‘Piliyintinji-ki’ ..................................................................................................................................... 13 The Piliyintinji-ki Values ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Piliyintinji-ki Staff Structure ................................................................................................................................ 14 Affirmation of the Piliyintinji-ki ideology ............................................................................................................. 15 Staff Worry and ‘Burn-out’ ................................................................................................................................. 15 Yapakurlangu Men’s and Women’s Violence Workshop, Nov. 2006 ................................................................ 16 Piliyintinji-ki Achievements in late 2006 and early 2007 .................................................................................... 19 Findings on the Building of Capacity within Piliyintinji-ki ................................................................................... 20 CHAPTER 3:THE PILIYINTINJI-KI STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN ............................................................................ 21 Expanding the Alcohol and Drugs Service ........................................................................................................ 38 CHAPTER 4: PROFILE OF THE YAPAKURLANGU (BARKLY) REGION .............................................................. 39 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 39 Settlement Profile of the Region ........................................................................................................................ 39 The Barkly Region Population and Statistics relating to Family Violence ......................................................... 41 Summary of Statistical Findings ........................................................................................................................ 54 Comment and Recommendations on Regional Violence Response Activity .................................................... 55 CHAPTER 5: QUALITATIVE FINDINGS ON VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE RESPONSE IN THE YAPAKURLANGU REGION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 57 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 57 A model of family violence types for use in planning response ......................................................................... 57 Qualitative Findings on Violence Problems in Tennant Creek .......................................................................... 59 A Tour of Town Camps with Piliyintinji-ki Workers Mr Jones and Pepy Simpson ............................................. 66 Findings on Violence Problems in Elliott ........................................................................................................... 68 Violence issues and responses at Canteen Creek and Epenarra ..................................................................... 71 Past Violence Responses at Ali Curung ............................................................................................................ 72 Audit of Family Violence Agency Activities in the Yapakurlangu Region .......................................................... 74 A Proposed Piliyintinji-ki Women’s Centre ........................................................................................................ 76 CHAPTER 6: THE YAPAKURLANGU BARKLY FAMILY VIOLENCE PLAN ......................................................... 78 The Yapakurlangu (Barkly Region) Violence Plan ............................................................................................ 78 Proposal for Town Camp Violence Plans and Violence Watch ......................................................................... 79 The Community Violence Planning Tool Kit ...................................................................................................... 80 Classification of violence responses according to their time of implementation ................................................ 82 Cultural Protocols to be observed for the Yapakurlangu (Barkly) Region ......................................................... 84 Next Phase of Work on FVRAP ......................................................................................................................... 84 Ongoing Capacity Building Support to the Yapakurlangu FVRAP .................................................................... 85 Summary of Consultant’s Recommendations ................................................................................................... 85 BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................................................ 90 APPENDIX 1: OUTCOMES OF THE TENNANT CREEK MEN’S WORKSHOP ON FAMILY VIOLENCE, ORGANIZED BY PILIYINTINJI-KI IN JULY 2005 APPENDIX 2: VIOLENCE PLANNING NOTES FROM 2006 YAPAKURLANGU VIOLENCE WORKSHOP APPENDIX 3: AUDIT PROFILES OF AGENCIES AND ORGANISATIONS IN THE YAPAKURLANGU REGION APPENDIX 4: PILIYINTINJI-KI STAFF PROFILES APPENDIX 5: VISUAL POWERPOINT PLANNING AIDS APPENDIX 6: WORK NOTES FOR PILIYINTINJI-KI STAFF Yapakurlangu Family & Community Violence Report page i Final Draft of 05/03/07 Executive Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF ANYINGYINYI’S YAPAKURLANGU FAMILY VIOLENCE REPORT Background to Anyinginyi and Piliyintinji-ki Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation (AHAC) is based in Tennant Creek and services the Yapakurlangu or Barkly Region of the Northern Territory. Anyinginyi is committed to strengthening and supporting Indigenous individuals, families and communities to improve their health and social wellbeing. Anyinginyi is the only Indigenous service provider in the Barkly Region to provide a set of services that employs a community development approach and a holistic planning method in relation to Family Violence in the region. The Barkly boundaries are 600kms south of Katherine and 500kms north of Alice Springs and the region covers an area of 300,073 square kilometres, east to the Queensland border. Anyinginyi is an Aboriginal Medical Service comprised of six service sections: Business Services, Regional Remote Health, Public Health, Health Centre, Active Life and Piliyintinji-ki (Stronger Families). This consultancy, conducted by Paul Memmott and Associates (PMA) from August 2006 to February 2007, has focused on the current and future operations of the Piliyintinji-ki (Stronger Families) Section of Anyinginyi which provides programs and projects in the areas of, but not limited to: • Women’s and Men’s capacity building, • Response to individual, family, community and domestic violence, •