The Centre of Excellence has been a vision of the Board and leadership of QATSICPP for a number of years. As a group we were successful in getting the Centre of Excellence included in the Changing Tracks Action Plan. So, with support from the Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women we have begun to…
Welcome to July 2020 edition of the QATSICPP newsletter. This year has brought about many unexpected and significant challenges both for the child protection sector and for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families. In the current COVID-19 environment, it would be understandable to forget that 2020 commenced with large parts of Australia…
The Family Matters Community Resource kits were developed by SNAICC – National Voice for Our Children, in close consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, community-controlled organisations and campaign committees in all Australian jurisdictions. View the full Family Matters Queensland Community Resource Guide here.
Welcome to the August edition of the QATSICPP newsletter. We truly appreciate the opportunity to share with you some of the great work happening in the sector and to provide another platform to engage with our valued members and supporters.
Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Child Protection definition and standards seek: to achieve consistency within the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Child Protection sector provide a framework to support children, families, communities and organisations to ensure their children are safe in culture and not in care preserve the intent…
This resource provides a description of the definition of the five core elements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP). As a component of the Third Action Plan, States and Territories have committed to “continuing to fully implement the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle” and to the following…
The Child Placement Principle has a very special meaning to the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander community. It was a community initiative born out of pioneering grassroots action by the newly formed Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agencies (AICCA) movement in the 1970s. Long before the Apology, it was an acknowledgment that serious harm can be…
