Investing in Kimberley Aboriginal women and girls must begin at crucial developmental milestones.
Kimberley Aboriginal Women teach girls from a very young age how to hold a precious baby. We need to institute projects and processes that affirm to our young girls that they too are precious and should be held as our greatest investment, our most appreciated asset and our intergenerational legacy.
The Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) Community Guide on page 6 states “It is structural forces, not individual behaviours alone, which overwhelmingly determine our life outcome.”
Ena Graham is in Year 9 at Fitzroy Crossing District High School and is a valued member of the local Shooting Stars Program. Ena is an inspiration and has wisdom way beyond her 14 years. She shared that despite being in the midst of chaos, drugs and other no-good things, knowing her purpose each and every day has kept her positive and given her hope. She receives inspirational quotes and devotions daily on her phone and encourages others to say no to bad things and yes to achieving their dreams.
Focus Area Two - Project Two – Supporting our Girls to grow and glow as Women: It takes a village to raise a child
Objective
Facilitating families, school and local organisations collective impact that provides a positive rite of passage for girls to prosper.
Outcomes
Every Kimberley town has a lead host organisation who will host agreed innovative initiatives that help our girls learn, arise, be inspired and shine.
Input
More than $500,000 in grants to define the cultural, social, economic determinants of success locally and navigate regional connectivity and source national and international partner programs and organisations that we can host in Kimberley.
Close The Gap Impact
100% with a direct and positive impact on 14 targets and an indirect positive impact on three targets.
Output
Output: Identify 50 young Kimberley women and together find and navigate our own definition of what is our Kimberley leading practice and map their personal, professional and community development milestones. Define what brings value and how we link up programs regionally and deliver practical opportunities and role models to our girls before they become women.
| Year | One | Two | Three |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Theme | Build self | Bridge with others | Broker Regional Reinvestment |
| Key Performance Measure | Develop project plan and funding submissions | Regional pathways established with education, training, wellbeing, and career partnership program possibilities | Work with existing organisations delivering services to Kimberley young women to support their programs for all potential and actual candidates to arise and shine all the time |
| Lead Target | Complete a person centred and place based Arise and Shine Map and Gap Analysis Report to advocate for an Aboriginal led regional collective impact | Kimberley Arise and Shine 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 | Launch the Arise and Shine Program of works to coincide with school calendar and other key events |
| Critical Target | Potential regional provider identified for every cultural, social and economic determinant identified locally | 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 action and desktop 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 Girls and their Families Posters and booklet |
| Public Relations | Website survey and progress reports | Trial Site bespoke self-care giveaway and website page | Profiling our Partners and cobranding event opportunities |