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UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – 12th Session Good Practice, Gaps and Challenges Implementing a Culturally Secure Model in relation to education, health and culture Ruah Model Provide (ensure) a culturally competent workforce Provide (ensure) culturally secure services and programs Develop an organisational culture committed to the model Do this at three levels: Essential Individual Program Organisation Desirable Innovative Essential - Individual level 1. Complete RCS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Awareness/Cultural Security Orientation Training 2. Be familiar with the existence and the intention of the RCS ATSI reconciliation statement. 3. Take a holistic view of ATSI clients in relation to: Employing culturally secure strategies to enhance engagement Practical needs Family relationships Inter-generational trauma Desirable - Program level 1. Collaborate with agencies to enable coordinated, holistic response to complex dimensions of disadvantage experienced by many ATSI people 2. Support ATSI student placements in program areas 3. Commit to understanding different service, support, program options for healing, mental health, well being including traditional and contemporary ways 4. Develop Aboriginal specific information resources and service promotion material 5. Create opportunities to build capacity of individuals/ families to access community resources and meet their needs Organisation - Essential level 1. Ensure staff selection processes assess applicants for their values, world view and capacity in respect to all people 2. Identify and ensure cultural security principles and strategies are in RCS service policies and procedures 3. Access specific Aboriginal Cultural Training for Supervisors 4. Commit to increasing the number of Aboriginal staff and ensuring employment of Aboriginal staff across RCS and support Aboriginal traineeships 5. Promote and increase RCS profile among ATSI networks and build relationships with community elders. Organisation - Essential level 6. Incorporate Indigenous wisdom of relationship to land, the natural world and spirituality into organisational culture 7. Identify pathways and resources to assist ATSI staff to access further professional development and qualifications 8. Develop strong organisational commitment to Aboriginal people/communities demonstrated in multi-ways e.g. Sharing strength of RCS infrastructure supporting policy and service systemic change Challenges Staffing – recruitment, retention, absence, leadership Resources – financial, personnel Values and attitudes – racism Reflection and Link to Review theme ? Ruah model includes governance, leadership, staffing, workforce development, strategic framework, service variety and delivery, education, cultural security and cultural awareness, reconciliation and partnership – in a health and housing context Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Report on the eleventh session (7-18 May 2012) 8. The PForum encourages … the processes of reconciliation ‘according to the principles of justice, democracy, and respect for human rights, equality, nondiscrimination, good governance and good faith’. 9. PF recommends ‘States include in all education curricula … a discussion of the doctrine of discovery/dispossession and its contemporary manifestations, including land laws and policies of removal’. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Report on the eleventh session (7-18 May 2012) 11. To have a ‘distinct focus on indigenous youth by ... including mental health services for young people, with particular efforts to address suicide among indigenous youth’. 26. The Forum recommends all States install gendersensitive action plans and independent self-reporting mechanisms that give particular attention to indigenous peoples … Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Report on the eleventh session (7-18 May 2012) 30. ‘The PF urges States to: •provide detailed reports … on implementation of the Declaration. •recommends public education initiatives, sharing best practices re the Declaration, in particular through training programmes for government agencies, the judiciary and law enforcement officials, in collaboration with indigenous peoples. •recommends that such reports be … in periodic reports mandated under human rights treaties and the universal periodic review procedures. Conclusion Ruah honours and respects the traditional custodians of this land where we meet today, their descendents and their continuing connection to this land. Short video Wolf Dog Tales Distils Indigenous Wisdom