Www.tacsi.org.au/assets/Documents/Publications/New-Folder/TACSIAboriginal-FamiliesReportonline.pdf. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resource portal. Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities - The Smith Family. Www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/409459/Guide-for-Working-with-Indigenous-Australian-Staff_-WEB.pdf. Working with Aboriginal people « SDN Children's Services. SDN recognises the unique position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people in our culture and history, and expresses this by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land and paying respect to Elders, past and present.
In August 2013, SDN’s Board signed a Statement of Commitment to develop a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) by June 2014. We are proud to be working with our staff, communities and Reconciliation Australia to progress our RAP. Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families SDN is committed to making our long day care centres, preschools and programs more accessible to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families by creating welcoming and inclusive environments and programs.
We have two Aboriginal Early Childhood Education Practice Lead positions within our Inclusive Education and Care Practice Unit. Working with our Aboriginal staff. Ab-ed.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/working-with-aboriginal-communities.pdf. CAFCA Practice Sheet - Working with Indigenous children, families, and communities: Lessons from practice. You are in an archived section of the Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) site.
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Family and kinship Aboriginal kinship and family structures are still cohesive forces which bind Aboriginal people together in all parts of Australia.
They provide psychological and emotional support to Aboriginal people even though they create concern among some non- Aboriginal people who would prefer Aborigines to follow European social preferences for nuclear families with few kinship responsibilities. Aboriginal family obligations, often seen as nepotism by other Australians, may be reflecting cultural values, involving kinship responsibilities. For Aboriginal people kinship and family are especially import. Aboriginal people have family and kinship responsibilities that are not typical of non-Aboriginal families.
Aboriginal people get things done through working through their family and kinship structures.