2025 QATSICPP Awards Nomination Form
The Awards recognise and acknowledge exemplary leadership, advocacy and practice excellence within our Sector.
Importantly, our Awards recognise families who are doing an amazing job of caring for and protecting their children.
“What an amazing night – to see the pride in the faces of workers from across our deadly sector “
Nominations are open until midnight Friday 14 February 2025.
Nomination Form
Use this online form to submit a nomination for the following categories
- Cultural Leadership
- Practice Excellence
- Innovation within the Sector
- Youth Advocacy
- Blak Excellence
Who can be nominated?
Individuals and Teams working in QATSICPP Member Organisations are eligible for nomination. Nominees are strongly encouraged to assist in completing this form.
Self-nomination is accepted.
Who can submit a nomination?
Anyone can submit a nomination for these categories.
Can I nominate someone in more than one category?
Yes. Please submit a separate form for each category.
Family Award
QATSICPP Members can nominate a family for the Family Award.
To provide a nomination:
- Click here to access the Family Award nomination form
- Fill in the downloadable PDF form
- Ensure the family consents to be nominated and signs the form
- Email the completed form to awards@qatsicpp.com.au
Award Categories
Cultural Leadership
This award is to recognise an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled worker who has demonstrated outstanding cultural leadership and mentoring within the workplace and/or community.
- Keeping the rights and needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families at the front and centre in all the work the nominee does.
- Promote self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and families.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values and culture are evident in all the work the nominee does, and they provide mentorship to others to do the same.
Practice Excellence
This award is to recognise an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled worker who has demonstrated best practice in their direct service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and/or families.
- Work within a strong cultural practice framework, implementing the QATSICPP Practice Standards and/or the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (5 elements) and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Led Decision Making.
- Demonstrate the importance of building strong relationships with children and their families to establish a new storyline.
- Show strong commitment to supporting families to identify their own solutions and ways to achieve this.
Innovation within the Sector
This award is to recognise an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled worker who has demonstrated innovation within the sector to achieve best outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people.
- Deliver innovative and best practice responses to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and families
- Draws upon Active Efforts, that is being timely, active, thorough and affirmative, in all areas of their service delivery.
- Works in collaboration with stakeholders and community members to ensure that the service/s they are providing meets the safety and wellbeing needs of children, young people and their families.
Youth Advocacy
This award is to recognise an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled worker who has demonstrated best outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people through strong advocacy skills.
- Advocate for the voices of children and young people to be heard in all decisions made about them.
- Reduce stigma and shame by encouraging youth within the nominee’s community to be proud of their identity and their mob.
- Designing and delivering a creative program of work that embeds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing. Elevating children, young people and family connection to kin, community and culture.
- Advocating for the importance of being raised by family and having a strong connection to culture and community.
Blak Excellence
This award is to recognise an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled worker who lives, breathes and leads with culture on a daily basis.
- Demonstrates a commitment to reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the statutory systems
- Committed to upholding voice, choice and family led principles to the standard of active efforts.
- Embodies 2024 NAIDOC theme of Keep the Fire Burning! Loud, Blak & Proud.
- Strong in leadership and advocacy in building positive futures for our children.
- Upholds culture to the highest esteem.
Family
This award is to recognise families who are doing an amazing job of caring for and raising their children to be safe, culturally strong and connected.
Important Note for nominating Organisations
For all nominees, it will be the responsibility of the nominating organisation to provide accommodation, travel and pay for the nominee Awards dinner ticket/registration.
QATSICPP will provide a ticket to the Awards dinner for the Award Winner. This will be reimbursed to the nominating organisation within 21 days after the Awards Night on 27 March 2025.