There are many Kimberley women and girls who experience intense levels of vulnerability daily.
The Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) Community Guide presents a way forward on page 9 with key pathways forward-priority actions in thematic areas as level three activities.
This includes:
- supporting strong families and communities,
- living and belonging,
- healthy and engaged lives and
- thriving communities and sustainable economies.
Each of these thematic areas represents how one can govern themselves through personal, community and economic shifts and changes.
Sometimes change is imposed on us, in ways that are beyond our control and can disrupt our routine, standard of living and capacity to engage with others.
Focus Area Six and Project Six is for everyone because we all at different stages of life, experience our own grief, loss, trauma, betrayal and hardship.
We must ask ourselves and each other, the question: who cares for the carer?
We must also be the solution to that question.
The Kimberley Aboriginal Women’s Council, in its pursuit of inclusion and care, seeks to ensure that Kimberley Aboriginal women and girls have access to timely referrals and services to help us all overcome our most difficult patch of hardship. We want to know what works best and replicate success across the Kimberley. Where a local host organisation wants to partner in a care through response to lifelong vulnerability, we are available and willing to broker increased access to regional support services.
Focus Area Six - Project Six: – Set up a Kimberley community care through response to life-long vulnerability, and aging
Objective
Based on Kimberley localised experiences, plan a service chain across the whole life span for those who experience and or are impacted by extreme vulnerability, including developmental delays, mental health, disability, family trauma and aging.
Input
With local community organisational partnerships pursue more than $1,000,000 in grants over three years to define development agenda, identify threshold issues, including the assessment and complexity of needs and critical response required by more than one human service government agency. Then build a Kimberley wide collective impact service chain to increase Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation local leadership and reduce the high level of vulnerability and events / issue / intergenerational impact that compound trauma in the Kimberley. This will include but not be limited to source national and international partner programs and organisations that we can host, connect and integrate with localised service providers in the Kimberley.
Outcomes
Find 10 organisations and 100 Kimberley women with complex needs across more than three areas; whose threshold needs are still not being met due to access, reach and cultural or social mismatch.
Output
Every Kimberley town has a lead host organisation who will be resourced to host agreed innovative initiatives that help our girls and women have a fresh start.
Close The Gap Impact
100% with a direct and positive impact on 15 targets and an indirect positive impact on two targets.
| Year | One | Two | Three |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Theme | Build self | Bridge with others | Broker Regional Reinvestment |
| Key Performance Measure | Developed Project Plan and Funding Submissions | Build a hub and spoke service matrix that supports localised care and action through a host organisation that includes learning option, wellbeing, social inclusion, jobs and trauma recovery | Be a joint venture partner of a Kimberley regional trauma informed healing, care and recovery blueprint and unsolicited proposal. To lean in and care for those trapped in acute trauma |
| Lead Target | Complete a person centred and placebased Map and Gap Analysis Report focusing first on education and training developmental delays, disabilities, in home family support/care and mental health Aboriginal led regional collective impact | Build A Kimberley Women’s Service Value Chain of regional service providers, shared scope of work and schedule established as a consortium in Tender / Grant application and or unsolicited proposal to government and industry | Regional Collective Impact Advocacy & Action– Know and assert our unique value proposition as a Kimberley wide Aboriginal led community and service response to regional trauma |
| Critical Target | Potential local town-based provider identified for every cultural, social and economic determinant identified regionally | MoU established with all current providers in Kimberley to demonstrate regional connectivity including one trial site initiative | Contracted program of works established with own cost centre and talent pool of potential staff/ contractors |
| Resource Requirements | Part Time Research Analyst and Part time Relationship Manager and $100,000 research budget over three years | Full time Relationship Manager and Part time Research Analyst. $1million over three years partnered program of works sponsorship | Full time Relationship Manager. Part time Trainer / Empowerment Coach / Mentor and Part time Research Analyst |
| Priority Communications | The Directory of Services & Map and Gap Analysis Report | The Prospectus / Program of Works Marketing Pitch | Profiling our blueprint for Kimberley Trauma Recovery booklet and critical stakeholder presentations |
| Public Relations | Website survey and progress reports Build a brand for the program | Trial Site profiled participants and contributors and website page | Profiling our Partners and cobranding event including fund raising and issue campaign opportunities |