Aboriginal Melbourne Major Initiatives Program
The City of Melbourne, through its Aboriginal Melbourne team, is considering ways in which to ensure all Indigenous Australians living and working in Melbourne city have opportunities to be actively involved in progressing its major initiatives.
Project Timeline: June 2022
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Mullum Mullum Strategic Plan 2022 - 2025
Mullum Mullum is an Aboriginal community controlled organisation based in the Eastern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne.
Project Timeline: April 2022
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Nalderun Education Aboriginal Corporation and Charity Strategic Planning
Nalderun is an Aboriginal-led service provider to the Aboriginal community of the Mount Alexander shire in Victoria. Karabena was engaged by Nalderun to facilitate a strategic planning workshop and deliver a report of outcomes to support the development of the Nalderun Strategic Plan 2022-2025.
Project Timeline: March 2022 – April 2022
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Online consultations and review of information for the Victorian Aboriginal Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan 2022 – 2030.
Karabena Consulting was contracted by the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing to lead community consultations and contribute to the review of the Victorian Aboriginal Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan 2022 – 2030 (the Plan).
Project Timeline: June 2021 - October 2021
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Aboriginal Economic Development Strategy
The City of Melbourne is the location for around a quarter of all employment in the greater Melbourne area including the great majority of high value jobs. While the City has been heavily impacted by COVID-19, it is likely to spring back strongly over the next year or two and will continue to be the largest employment zone and a home to innovation and future industries.
Project Timeline: March 2021 – October 2021
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Feasibility Study for a First Nations Community Space in the City of Greater Dandenong
The project’s primary aim is to understand the needs and aspirations of First Nations people living in the City of Greater Dandenong, and to determine the feasibility of establishing a First Nations community space in the region.
Project Timeline: February 2021 - July 2021
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Peer Researcher-Led Household Survey: East Gippsland and Wellington Regions, Victoria
The East Gippsland and Wellington Household Survey was an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led research project that aimed to provide evidence to inform the development of services, programs and policies to improve the life outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families and communities in the Outer Gippsland region of Victoria.
Project Timeline: August 2020 – June 2021
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Traumatology Talks: Black Wounds, White Stitches
The project aims were informed by ACEM’s vision to step towards achieving reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by providing quality, culturally safe health care in EDs across Australia. To support this vision, ACEM commissioned Karabena Consulting to study cultural safety in ED settings from the perspectives of emergency service providers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service users.
Project Timeline: June 2019 - December 2020
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Reimagining Indigenous Housing, Health and Wealth: The Necessary Ecological Response to Unlock the Potential in the Indigenous Estate
This project was funded to identify possible solutions to address the issue of housing affordability, sub-quality housing and homelessness and the associated impacts on health and wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Project Timeline: January 2020 – October 2020
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