Bridging Cultures Unit

Bridging Cultures Unit ensures we're committed to understanding and sharing the issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities, and that our programs are both safe and culturally responsive.

Bridging Cultures Unit

Established in early 2019, our Bridging Cultures Unit aims to ensure the organisation is actively meeting its responsibilities in honouring our First Nations Peoples as we work towards reconciliation and self-determination through knowledge, practice and by growing our partnerships with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in each State and Territory.

Bridging Cultures Unit

  • Chad Lofthouse | Director National Aboriginal Practice & Partnership

  • Kyran Brown | Senior Aboriginal Practice Lead (QLD)

Aims and commitment

OzChild’s Bridging Cultures Units aim is to work with all OzChild teams, endeavouring to keep First Nations children and young people connected to their families, communities, cultures and country.

Through a dedicated team, this team will work across OzChild services, build partnerships and encourage participation, source and provide information and data relating to First Nations children and young people and seek to continuously improve the quality of programs and services through research and evaluation.

 

45,000
Children and young people are in need of care each year
550
The number of children, young people and family members OzChild supports on any given night
Every 45 minutes
A child enters the care system in Australia
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