The unique experience of family violence for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people calls for culturally aware and community-led healing programs. This research report distils ‘what works’ to support and […]

Wukindi rom is a way of practising dispute resolution, mediation and peace-making among the Yolngu people. Mawul rom is the application of the principles to the Dhurili Clan, to match […]

The presentation introduces the idea of cultural safety as the stage following cultural awareness and its importance in healing trauma in indigenous communities. With illustrations from the Stan Daniels Correctional […]

Using the Canadian model of circle healing, especially for child sexual abuse cases, this presentation contains a series of talking points that draw on current research into cultural healing, and […]

This report is the second publication from the research project “An exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing programs that respond to domestic and family violence and sexual assault”. […]

This is a useful report that includes evaluation information, about the cost benefit of Aboriginal healing programs for the justice system. The report recommends that evaluation measures for future healing […]

This report is not justice specific but provides useful information on engaging members of the Stolen Generation. They are a high risk group for victimisation and offending as well as […]

For a number of years, there have been many efforts by Indigenous women to establish effective and appropriate responses to family violence and to child sexual assault. The criminal justice […]

This presentation contains a series of talking points on the Queensland Indigenous Alcohol Diversion Program, a pilot program designed to break the alcohol-crime cycle, one of the primary causes of […]

These are the PowerPoint slides used as the basis of a conference paper presented at the ‘Cultural healing in criminal justice service delivery: an identification of best practice and innovation […]