Keeping Our Kids Safe – resources to promote cultural safety

The Keeping Our Kids Safe resources help organisations deliver their work in a way that helps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and communities know and feel that their culture and identity are respected.

Cultural safety is more than just the absence of racism or discrimination and more than ‘cultural awareness’ and ‘cultural sensitivity’. It is a positive recognition and celebration of cultures that empowers people and enables them to contribute and feel safe to be themselves.

The resources include:

• an animated video, Keeping Our Kids Safe: Understanding Cultural Safety in Child Safe Organisations, that gives viewers an introduction to the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations through a cultural lens
• a guide, Keeping Our Kids Safe: Cultural Safety and the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, that gives practical advice on how to implement the National Principles in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities.

SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency and the National Office for Child Safety developed these resources in partnership following feedback from stakeholders that tailored information was needed to support organisations working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and communities.

Over 100 individuals and organisations representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, communities, and young people, as well as non-Indigenous organisations servicing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities from all over Australia, had a say in shaping these resources during the consultation process.