Course Overview
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people comprise one in ten households living in community housing in Australia. Community Housing Providers work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as tenants and applicants and as professional colleagues, and further engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders and service providers.
This course explores colonisation, government policies and shared history as the knowledge base to inform culturally safe practice. We will define cultural safety and examine ways to ensure cultural safety in our own work practice.
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9.30am – 3.30pm
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Online via Zoom
Face to face on request -
Free to members
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As requested by Community Housing Providers
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15 participants
Group bookings by enquiry
- Define cultural safety – and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural safety specifically – as a professional practice.
- Identify the relevance and impacts of diversity, unconscious bias, and Indigenous cultural competency in our CHPs, and on leadership and workplace effectiveness.
- Understand how colonisation and government policies shape our shared history and continue to impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and our workplaces today.
- Strengthen knowledge bases to enable better informed discussions and decisions on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural safety in the workplace.
- Know the context for seeking improved relationships and outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the wider Australian community.
- All staff: non-Indigenous people; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The course is delivered via a 1-day online Zoom workshop or face-to-face at the Community Housing Provider’s request. Participants will be provided with a resource list on completion. Face to face classes can be arranged for organisations.
The course is delivered by Russell Logan, a Coodjingburra man with many years’ experience training and working with community organisations on cultural safety. Russell imparts his experience and knowledge to make the session a truly memorable one for all participants.
“I loved the storytelling nature of the training and providing activities which allowed me to not only understand but feel the inequity was great. This type of training allowed me to think on more deeply on a human level rather than a slideshow which feels impersonal and clinical.”
“I thought Russell used a method that helped everyone understand the topic. Russell spoke very well and we all walked away with something.”
Need to chat?
If you are unsure which Professional Development course would suit you best, contact our CHIA NSW Learning & Development team by calling on (02) 9690 2447 or send us an enquiry via the form below.