FAMILY & CULTURE

Family & Culture

Muloobinba Aboriginal Corporation implemented the Family and Culture team overarching across the services and programs we provide to ensure that cultural safety and practice and are incorporated across all of our programs and are incorporated across all of our service delivery.

The Family and Culture team will provide access to cultural practice that will strengthen practice across the programs that will aim to promote resilience, strengthen connections to the community, deepen relationships between Muloobinba and the Aboriginal communities we work in and increase the ability of workers to offer culturally safe services for Children, Young People and families.

The Family and Cultural team have a number of responsibilities including:

  • Ensuring our children and young people who enter the foster care system are supported to remain connected to their family and extended family by making contact with family and looking for viable family options to care for the child or young person, as in line with s13 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child and Young Person Placement Principles, Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998. If family is unable to provide care for the child or young person, the Family and Culture team will work closely with family and the Cultural Journeyz team to ensure they are able to spend regular quality time together.

  • Seeking guidance with family on how to culturally support their Children and Young People who are in foster care

  • Providing cultural programs and activities for Aboriginal Children and Young People

A Mentors Role 

The mentors provide a vital role for Aboriginal Children and Young people when they require additional support in the home or at school. Our mentors provide one on one support to kids in their home, at school or out in the community completing activities of the child or young person’s choice.

Who is in the Family & Culture team?

The Family and Culture team is made up of Cultural Caseworkers, mentors and Youth workers who are able to work broadly across the organisation as well as support Aboriginal Children and Young People who are not currently supported by Muloobinba Aboriginal Corporation.

Cultural Camps

The Family and Culture team will also provide Cultural camps at our property located at Laguna as well as seeking further opportunities across New South Wales in remote Aboriginal communities to expose our children and young people to both rural and urban Aboriginal communities. 

Cultural camps are an opportunity for kids to be immersed in culture and to learn more about different Aboriginal communities, significant cultural sites as well as cultural practices. Cultural camps also provide kids the opportunity to immerse themselves into activities such as tool making, art, weaving and for the boys learning how to play the Yidaki. 

Cultural camps also provide mentoring experiences and exposure to meeting kids from varying Aboriginal communities. It is anticipated that the following outcomes will be achieved: 

  • Stronger respect for their culture. 

  • Develop self-respect and self-confidence. 

  • Sense of belonging  

  • Increase confidence, pride, friendships and greater respect for others  

  • have a greater understanding of their responsibility and behaviours within the community, right choices and respect towards family and community   

For further information on referrals form for mentor or youth support, please contact the office and ask to speak to a team member from Family and Culture.

Youth Justice Program

The Youth Justice Program is new to the Family and Culture team as well as Muloobinba. This program supports the Broadmeadow Children’s Court Pilot by providing Youth Workers at the Broadmeadow Children’s Court weekly and Raymond Terrace court fortnightly to support Aboriginal Young People to reduce their interactions with NSW Police and the Juvenile Justice system. Youth workers are able to work intensively with Young People and support them with case plans to assist in reaching Young People’s goals. 

This program is also supported with Youth Yarns, an 8 week program that is facilitated once a week that has been specifically designed around topics that impact the lives of Aboriginal young people. Youth Yarns topics include:  

Domestic and Family Violence, Employment and Training, Culture, Drug and Alcohol, Your Rights, trauma and Mental Health.

Contact Us

Office Hours
Monday–Friday
9:00am - 5:00pm

Phone
(02) 4969 5299

Location
Cardiff Office:
95 Mitchell Road, Cardiff