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Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Safety Plan Public Submissions

SNAICC is seeking your contributions towards designing the national approach to family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

The public submissions process is seeking your perspective on the solutions, priorities and approaches that should make up the Family Safety Plan, so it represents the voices and needs of our communities.

Everyone is welcome to provide a submission. However, the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities, and organisations will be centred in the development of the Family Safety Plan.

SNAICC will create a Consultation Report summarising what we hear in Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices engagement phase, including submissions but without identifying any individuals.

By providing a submission, your voice, experiences, and knowledge will help the Family Safety Plan make a tangible impact on the safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

Find out more about the Family Safety Plan

How to respond

The public submissions process is open from Wednesday 3 September until 11.59pm AEST on Friday 25 October 2024.

To share your views and experiences, you can upload a written or audio submission on the Family Safety Plan Public submissions form.
Written submissions may be uploaded in a Word (.docx), PDF (.pdf), PowerPoint (.pptx) or Excel (.xlsx) format. Audio submissions may be uploaded in .mp3 format.

SNAICC has created a discussion paper that you may wish to use to support you in responding to the public submissions process. The discussion paper:

introduces the Family Safety Plan
outlines the policy landscape that the Family Safety Plan will operate in
provides a broad overview of the unique context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ experience of violence.

We encourage you to use or build on previous submissions provided as part of other consultations.
If you choose to upload a previous submission, please tell us which consultation process the submission informed.

You can contact SNAICC at familysafetyplan@snaicc.org.au if you would like to speak to someone about the public submissions process and how to participate.

View the Discussion Paper

Questions

The public submissions process includes optional questions to guide your submission. You can find these questions below.

Questions aim to build on the existing evidence base by deepening our understanding of the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities, and services, while addressing gaps in our knowledge. Many questions are solutions-focused to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices are front and centre of the national policy approaches that will come out of the Family Safety Plan.

These questions are intended to support you to identify the issues, solutions, priorities, and experiences that you consider important in the Family Safety Plan.

You can answer none, some or all of the questions.

Question 1: What are the key priorities and actions the Family Safety Plan should focus on to create real and sustainable change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families? 

Question 2: If there were no barriers, how would your community address FDSV? 

In your response, you may wish to talk about what works well and any barriers or gaps in the service system within your community. This may include whether people in your community know about services available and what types of supports your community prefers.

You may also wish to talk about how services and supports come together and whether you feel there are some needs that are not being met.

Also, you could comment on how the services are provided and the skill sets required to work with your community in a supportive healing way. This may also include how we support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls to become leaders in their community. 

You may also like to consider healing pathways for families that are aligned with community protocols.

Question 3: What does culturally appropriate and holistic service provision look and feel like? 

In your response, you may like to talk about positive examples from your community, or what your community needs for a more holistic approach. This means an approach that looks at all your needs together and not just one specific issue. This could include current gaps in cultural safety.

If you are representing an organisation, you may like to talk about all the community supports you deliver and the strengths of this approach.

Question 4: How can governments and mainstream services best support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (including workforce and clients), services and solutions?

When we say mainstream services, we mean organisations that deliver services to all Australians, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

In your response, you may like to talk about how mainstream services in your community currently support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and whether this is effective and appropriate, or how mainstream services can ensure culturally safe and accessible service delivery.

You may like to consider how mainstream services and governments could work with or elevate ACCOs and other community-led solutions, or how mainstream services funded to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients should be monitored.

Question 5: How should the service system respond to the intersectional needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities? 

In your response, you may like to talk about how services manage intersecting needs when addressing FDSV, such as housing, health, transport, healing, or clients with cross border issues.

You may also like to talk about the unique needs of people in your community when addressing FDSV, such as the broader family unit, children and young people, elders, people with disability, people who are LGBTIQA+SB, women experiencing incarceration, men who are impacted by FDSV, or people who use violence, including young people. 

Family Safety Plan Public Submissions Form

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Consent

All experiences and voices are valuable for this submissions process. However, your participation is voluntary, and we ask that you only provide a submission if you wish to do so. If you have any questions about the process, please email SNAICC at familysafetyplan@snaicc.org.au.

If you have provided a submission, you can choose to withdraw it. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please email SNAICC at familysafetyplan@snaicc.org.au by 18 November 2024 and SNAICC will delete any copies of your submission. As your safety is important, please tell us in your email if it is okay for us to reply to your email with an update on your submission.

For safety, SNAICC will not publish submissions from individuals. However, SNAICC will publish written submissions from organisations and academics after the process is finalised, where consent has been provided to do so. When you upload a written submission, you will be asked to specify whether you would like your submission to be published to the SNAICC’s website. You can choose for your submission to be uploaded without identifying information, such as your organisation’s name or location.

If you change your mind about publishing your submission, please contact SNAICC at familysafetyplan@snaicc.org.au. You can contact us at any time to change your mind: if we have already published your submission, we will delete it from the webpage.

Help and support

If you or someone close to you is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing immediate danger, please call Triple Zero (000).

For information, family, domestic and sexual violence services, support and counselling, you can contact:

13 YARN	Support line for mob who are feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty coping. Available 24/7.	13 92 76 www.13yarn.org.au
1800RESPECT	National domestic, family and sexual violence counselling, information and support service. This service is free, confidential and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.	1800 737 732 1800respect.org.au
Brother to Brother Crisis Support Line	Brother to Brother is Australia’s first 24-hour hotline assisting Aboriginal men, staffed by Aboriginal men, including Elders, to promote a culturally safe service. Available 24/7.	1800 435 799 dardimunwurro.com.au/brother-to-brother
Thirrili Postvention Response Service	Indigenous Suicide Postvention Response Service supporting individuals, families and communities affected by suicide or other significant trauma. Available 24/7.	1800 805 801 www.thirrili.com.au

Contact

Contact SNAICC at familysafetyplan@snaicc.org.au if you would like to speak to someone about the Family Safety Plan.

Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Safety Plan Public Submissions

Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Safety Plan Public Submissions

SNAICC is seeking your contributions towards designing the national approach to family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

By providing a submission, your voice, experiences, and knowledge will help the Family Safety Plan make a tangible impact on the safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

How to respond

Questions

You can answer none, some or all of the questions.

Question 1: What are the key priorities and actions the Family Safety Plan should focus on to create real and sustainable change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families?

Question 2: If there were no barriers, how would your community address FDSV?

Question 3: What does culturally appropriate and holistic service provision look and feel like?

Question 4: How can governments and mainstream services best support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (including workforce and clients), services and solutions?

Question 5: How should the service system respond to the intersectional needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities?

Family Safety Plan Public Submissions Form

Consent

Help and support

If you or someone close to you is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing immediate danger, please call Triple Zero (000).

13 YARN

1800RESPECT

Brother to Brother Crisis Support Line

Thirrili Postvention Response Service

Contact

Search SNAICC – National Voice for our Children

Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Safety Plan Public Submissions

Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Safety Plan Public Submissions

SNAICC is seeking your contributions towards designing the national approach to family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

By providing a submission, your voice, experiences, and knowledge will help the Family Safety Plan make a tangible impact on the safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

How to respond

Questions

You can answer none, some or all of the questions.

Question 1: What are the key priorities and actions the Family Safety Plan should focus on to create real and sustainable change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families?

Question 2: If there were no barriers, how would your community address FDSV?

Question 3: What does culturally appropriate and holistic service provision look and feel like?

Question 4: How can governments and mainstream services best support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (including workforce and clients), services and solutions?

Question 5: How should the service system respond to the intersectional needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities?

Family Safety Plan Public Submissions Form

Consent

Help and support

If you or someone close to you is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing immediate danger, please call Triple Zero (000).

13 YARN

1800RESPECT

Brother to Brother Crisis Support Line

Thirrili Postvention Response Service

Contact

Search SNAICC – National Voice for our Children

Search the SNAICC website

Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Safety Plan Public Submissions

Question 1: What are the key priorities and actions the Family Safety Plan should focus on to create real and sustainable change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families? 

Question 2: If there were no barriers, how would your community address FDSV? 

Question 3: What does culturally appropriate and holistic service provision look and feel like? 

Question 5: How should the service system respond to the intersectional needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities? 

13 YARN 

Brother to Brother Crisis Support Line 

Thirrili Postvention Response Service 