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2 June 2006
In This Update
Reforming Human Services – some NGO Concerns
Alcohol Free Zones Recommended to City of Sydney Council Meeting
Community BBQ’s Start this Weekend
“Stronger Together” – New Directions for Disability Services in NSW
South Sydney Community Aid finds Temporary premises
State Infrastructure Strategy 2006-07 to 2015-16
Does Redfern Park have Social heritage significance? If you think so fill in a Questionnaire
REDWatch Meeting to Discuss Stage 2 Human Services 6pm Wednesday 14th June at Factory
The University of Sydney Reconciliation Statement
Redfern Residents for Reconciliation now meets 3rd Wednesday of the Month
Lions Club to be formed in Redfern – Monday 5 June
RWA’s Reforming Human Services from an NGO Perspective
The RWA can get things done as well as consult – they are not mutually exclusive
Aboriginal Engagement with the RWA
Capacity Building or Community Development and Co-operation or Duplication
Capacity Building Taskforce – What is on its Agenda?
Coming Events (entered on the REDWatch website)
Reforming
Human Services – some NGO Concerns
We undertook a couple of updates ago to put together an update about how the Reforming of Human Services was looking from the NGO standpoint. We have talked to a number of people involved in local NGOs as well as discussed some of the issues raised with Aldo Pennini from the RWA. We have waited until after the last REDWatch meeting which also concentrated on this topic so we could try and reflect the input as broad a range as possible. It was apparent during discussions that information about the RWA’s activities in Reforming Human Services is not only not getting out the community, but that they are also not getting information out to the services in the area. There is a desperate need for the RWA to get information out to the people involved and we have suggested to them that they should restart regular Human Services E-Newsletters so that the Services and interested members of the public can be kept advised of what is happening in both Human Services and Employment and Enterprise. You will find our Human Services update at the bottom of this email.
Alcohol Free Zones Recommended to City of Sydney Council Meeting
The consultation report on the AFZ proposals have been approved by the Cultural & Community Services Committee and the recommendation will be considered in the Report of the Cultural and Community Services Committee - 29 May 2006 | PDF 30Kb to the June 5th Council Meeting. All the reports and recommendations can be accessed through the links above. The final recommendations did not include the Block as a AFZ as had been requested by the AHC, so the AHC and the RWA in rare agreement about what happens on the Block. There is concern that some drinkers pushed from places like Redfern Street will now move to the Block and surrounding areas. The Council summary report on the submissions said that the Block may be considered as an AFZ in the future. The calls in some of the submissions that we saw, for the AFZs to be accompanied by other council action such as wet centres to address the problems of street drinkers, were not reflected in the council officer’s report which simply reported these submissions as being in favour of AFZs without recording these concerns. We are of the view that Council needs to have a broader response to the problem of street drinkers than just the introduction of AFZs.
Community BBQ’s Start this Weekend
Come along and meet your
neighbours at a series of Community BBQs being planned for the City South area.
The BBQs aim to help build a safer community by providing an opportunity for
people to meet their neighbours and to provide you with safety advice on how to
better secure your home, and information on events and activities taking place
in your area. It is also a chance to meet your local police. For more
information call John at Council 9288 5353 Georgie at the Police 8303 5127. The
BBQ details have been entered on the REDWatch Events Webpage and the BBQ
details are also below:
BEACONSFIELD Saturday 3 June, 11.00am – 2.00pm Beaconsfield Park,
Queen Street
CHIPPENDALE Sunday 4 June,
11.00am – 2.00pm Peace
Park, Buckland Street
ERSKINEVILLE Tuesday 6
June, 11.00am – 2.00pm Harry Noble Reserve, corner Elliot Ave and Swanson Street
REDFERN Wednesday 7 June,
3.00pm – 5.00pm Redfern Community Centre, Hugo Street
ZETLAND Saturday 10 June,
11.00am – 2.00pm Joynton
Park, Gadigal Ave
WATERLOO Tuesday 13 June, 11.00am – 2.00pm Waterloo Green, Raglan Street
DARLINGTON Saturday 17 June, 11.00am – 2.00pm Thomas Street Reserve,
corner Vine Street
Red
Square Day – Saturday
3 June 2006 12.00-2.00 pm
This is a reminder that over 200 Sydney University Architecture students who have been working on proposals for RED Square and the Block area will be bringing their work to the Block on Saturday to show off their ideas and to be thanked by the University and the AHC. This will be an opportunity to look at the student’s ideas of what the Block could become if the AHC and the RWA can get together and work on developing the public domain around Eveleigh Street and the Station. It will also be an opportunity to find out first hand about what the AHC is considering for the Block. More information on Red Square can be found in this extract from Architecture Bulletin.
“Stronger Together” – New Directions for
Disability Services in NSW
The Premiers recent announcement of significant improvements in Disability Services and Supported Accommodation in NSW is likely to have a significant impact on those with disability in Redfern Waterloo. As people with disabilities are one of the four focuses of Phase Two of the Human Services Plan it will be important that the RWA secures adequate resources to ensure these new initiatives meet the significant needs of those with disabilities in the Redfern Waterloo area. More information on “Stronger Together” can be found at http://www.dadhc.nsw.gov.au/dadhc/Publications+and+policies/stronger_together.htm and http://svc148.bne099u.server-web.com/StrongerTogether/Issue106/StrongerTogether1.htm#Heading2
South
Sydney Community Aid finds Temporary premises
Since the decision to sell the former Redfern Public School, South Sydney Community Aid has been one of the organisations looking for accommodation to continue their service in Redfern Waterloo. They have now obtained interim accommodation through the Council of the City of Sydney at the Alexandria Town Hall at 73 Garden St, Alexandria for the next six months. They moved on 1st June 2006. Jan Leach has documented their experience in finds accommodation at Looking for Premises in Redfern Waterloo - the South Sydney Community Aid experience. The South Sydney Community Aid experience highlights important issues concerning the availability of premises and funding for accommodation facing some of the human services in Redfern Waterloo.
State Infrastructure Strategy 2006-07 to
2015-16
With the recent release of the NSW treasury “State Infrastructure Strategy New South Wales 2006-07 to 2015-16” you might have expected some mention of Redfern Waterloo given the RWA emphasis on improving the areas infrastructure. We had a look at the report and the only mention of Redfern was that we had already received a new Police Station. The Town Hall Station Upgrade gets a couple of mentions but no mention of the Redfern Station upgrade. We guess the omission is because the State Treasury plans to pay for Town Hall while the Redfern Station upgrade is to be paid for by the RWA selling off a part of Redfern Waterloo from public ownership. The report on state infrastructure spending can be down loaded from http://www.treasury.nsw.gov.au/sis/sis-2006.htm
Does Redfern Park
have Social heritage significance? If you think so fill in a Questionnaire
Meetings were held last week with community groups and schools to assist consultants develop plans for what will happen on Redfern Park and Oval. This input will be worked up into plans which will come back later to the community for broader consultation. As part of the discussions last week a questionnaire was handed out which is looking to identify if Redfern Park has social heritage significance? Does the place have importance and meanings for the community? Is it a focus of the community's religious, spiritual, symbolic, cultural, educational or social sentiments, especially through use? The Heritage Study being undertaken as part of planning for the new Redfern Park / Oval to ensure that its local significance is documented and captured as far as possible in what is developed. If you are interested in participating you can download the questionnaire and feed your comments into the process. The Questionnaire can be downloaded from http://www.redwatch.org.au/links/ovalheritage/download (PDF 29Kb).
REDWatch Meeting to Discuss Stage 2 Human
Services 6pm Wednesday 14th June at Factory
With the announcement of the stage two process for the RWA’s Human Services Plan and submissions on the issues needing to be with the RWA by Friday 14th July 2006 REDWatch is holding a special meeting to consider its response. Hopefully the RWA discussion papers will be available by the meeting and REDWatch will discuss what they can do to improve community input to the process. REDWatch is particularly concerned that the process outlined does not lend itself to adequate input from service users in the area. The problem is most pronounced when you consider that two of the areas being included in Stage Two are services to the migrant and aged communities. Everyone is welcome to come along and join in the discussion. REDWatch will meet at The Factory, 67 Raglan Street Waterloo at 6pm.
The University of Sydney
Reconciliation Statement
Professor Gavin Brown launched the The University of Sydney Reconciliation Statement on 1 June 2006 in the Quadrangle at Sydney University. The launch followed a welcome to Country by Gadigal Elder Mr Charles Madden. Mr Phil Glendenning, Director of the Edmund Rice Centre and President of ANTaR provided an address on reconciliation followed by a performance by children from Erskineville Aboriginal Dance group lead by Terry Olsen. The statement is an important step by the University and follows the signing of a recent agreement between the city of Sydney and the Metro Land Council. Very soon we hope too that the RWA will undertake a similar step and that acknowledgement that they operate on Aboriginal land will also become part of the RWA’s meetings.
Redfern Residents for Reconciliation now meets 3rd Wednesday of the Month
Redfern Residents for Reconciliation has changed its monthly meeting date to the 3rd Wednesday each month to avoid clashing with Metro Land Council meetings. RRR assisted the City of Sydney to distribute copies of a Streetwize Comics "What Do You Mean Reconciliation?" poster to community organisations and schools. Kaye Mundine, the council’s Aboriginal Community Development officer, will be at the next RRR meeting to plan follow up activities. All are welcome to attend at the Redfern Community Centre at 7pm 21st June. Further information from conveners Lyn Turnbull or Deborah Wall
Lions Club to be formed in Redfern – Monday
5 June
A Meeting will be held to start a
Lions Club in Redfern which will aim to support local services. A meeting to
form the Club will be held at South Sydney Leagues Club in Chalmers Street Redfern at 6.30 for 7pm. If you would like more information or
wish to express interest contact Victor 0418 639026 or John 0416 048932.
Information on Lions can be found on their website at www.lionsclubs.org.au .
RWA’s Reforming Human Services from an NGO Perspective
The Update before last we provided details from the RWA
about what was happening in implementing the Human Services Plan (HSPlan). In
that update we said we would try and also provide an NGO perspective on the RWA
human services changes. REDWatch recently had a monthly meeting with a focus on
this topic and we have spoken to a few people involved in the non-government
human services sector. Based on this we have put together the notes below. At
the outset we should also note that much of the HSPlan has to do with what
government departments will do and there is currently little known about what
has happened in these areas. Non Government Organisations (NGOs) have primarily
been involved in discussions about the areas in which they work.
The views below will not represent all NGO service providers, but they give an indication of some of the concerns within the NGO community. We have not been directly involved in the implementation of the HSPlan so we are not in a position to make independent judgements on what we have been told. This is an attempt by us to reflect out to the community what some people have been saying about the current implementation of the RWA HSPlan and so provide the community an alternative view to the RWA’s comments in the earlier update.
The RWA can get things done as well as consult – they are not mutually exclusive
When the RWA HSPlan was finalised one of the changes made from
the Draft was to establish an Implementation Senior Officers Group (ISOG)
consisting only of state government representatives rather than the RWA’s
initial proposal of a Reforming Human Services Group whose membership included
an independent human services expert; a local person with knowledge of the
human services system and a local human services provider. In the HSPlan the
Human Services Ministerial Advisory Committee (HSMAC) was given the job as a
“reference point for community participation and client feedback”. The
community and the local service provider representatives on the HSMAC are the
only mechanism for community involvement in the over sight of the
implementation of the human services changes.
Helen Campbell
who is on the HSMAC, as the representative of all local service providers, is
feeling quite frustrated with the process to date. She sees part of her role as
keeping services and the wider community informed on what is happening and then
feeding back their concerns into the HSMAC and the reforming human services
process. There is an expectation that she will tell people what is happening
and the RWA supports that role, yet she says that she can only pass on
information that has been approved by the RWA, so on many issues she has been restricted
in what she can pass on to the community.
At its May 2006 meeting the HSMAC was provided with a report
entitled “Redfern-Waterloo Human Services Plan Implementation Report No 1 April
2006”. Helen says she sought permission to make all or parts of it public so
she could talk to people about it but that permission was refused. Aldo
Pennini, Manager Reforming Human Services, has told us that he has re-looked at
the possibility of the release of the report but that the report was not
suitable for release. It both contained dated information and was not in a
suitable form to be released.
We recently passed on information we had requested from the
RWA about the Human Services Taskforces and information concerning which staff
people had prime responsibility for certain reforming human services areas. We
received a couple of specific responses to the lists that the RWA supplied us
to pass on. PCYC said they did not appear on the list for the Youth Taskforce,
but they are involved. Questions were also raised about the membership of the
Capacity Building Taskforce with not all those agencies mentioned knowing they
were on the Taskforce especially the Neighbourhood Advisory Boards (NABs).
There was also comment that there appeared to be a lack of community involvement
in this taskforce.
We are not a local service provider and the information
supplied to us from the RWA was mostly new to us, but we were surprised to find
out that so much of it also appeared to be new to some of the service providers
who seemed to know only about the taskforces they were involved in or directly
overlapped with.
It is very apparent that information about what is happening
with reforming the area’s human services is not being circulated properly to
service providers as well as not getting out to interested residents and
workers in the area.
During the cluster group process early in 2005, the RWPP /
RWA put out three editions of a Redfern-Waterloo Human Services E-Newsletter to
agencies and interested parties. It seems to us that the RWA should urgently
recommence these Human Services E-Newsletters.
A factual (no spin) monthly email to service providers and
interested others would be a way of keeping everyone up to date with what is
happening in the taskforces and in the broader implementation of human services
reforms. This would allow people who were not involved in particular taskforces
to know what was happening and to feed any input in to the RWA or into their
own programmes. Currently one of the complains from some on taskforces is the
amount of time taken up in Taskforce meetings by RWA staff verbally updating
people on what is happening on other RWA taskforces that overlap their work
area. A regular email update could help cut this time at Taskforces and make
more time available for discussion of the Taskforce’s issues.
The RWA’s catch call at the moment appears to be that they
are into action not consultation; the Taskforces are there to implement the
HSPlan not consult about it. The problem is of course that there remains much
detail to be fleshed out in the HSPlan and many ways in which it can be
implemented. Good community development practice tells us that the RWA should
be drawing on all the experience it can to get the best possible outcomes. For
us this is achieved by letting those with experience in the field know what is
happening and in seeking their suggestions and involvement to give the best
possible outcomes. In not doing this the RWA makes a rod for its own back and
allows rumour and conflicting stories to populate the void.
The RWA’s printed newsletter to all of Redfern Waterloo is
not appropriate for such a detailed purpose but special E-Newsletters put out
regularly to agencies and others should be aimed at increasing information flow
to and from the RWA and its Taskforces. A proper communications strategy is
essential if all the existing skills within the community are to be used to
address the area’s issues and for people to own and support the programmes that
emerge.
Aboriginal Engagement with the RWA
Concerns have been raised about the lack of engagement that
has taken place between the RWA and the Aboriginal community in the human
services area. There have been problems getting Aboriginal involvement on some
of the taskforces and in getting Aboriginal input and participation in the
process. We have heard good reports back about the current “Creating a Culture
of Work” employment consultations being undertaken with service providers.
Service providers we have talked to feel that their contributions have been
taken on board and that their experience is being valued. Of course everyone is
waiting until the final report is in and they see how the RWA decides to
proceed to address the barriers identified before finally passing judgement.
Like with the HSPlan there is a feeling that the Enterprise and Employment Plan also needs to get information out much more broadly about what they are doing in implementing this Plan. This also could be done to agencies and some of the community through an email update to services and interested people in the community. It also needs to be done by good involvement of Aboriginal organisations in the process as partners. This information dissemination may help the RWA fill the employment opportunities created from within Redfern-Waterloo rather than needing to fill these positions with people from outside the area.
Youth Services Issues
We have heard some good comments back from people about how
the Youth Services Taskforce is going. Youth services have all put on extra
services in the school holidays paid for by RWA, although there was frustration
at the lack of lead time in putting the holiday programmes in place. There is
also frustration that the two remaining years of Redfern Waterloo Street Team
funds have not yet been channelled back into supporting youth services. We
understand DoCs has placed the Street Team funds with the RWA for furthering
the outcomes of the RWA youth services plan. Youth services will be asked to
put in some submissions for funding in line with the RWA HSPlan for youth
services. The final decision on what is funded will be with the RWA Board and
will presumably be advised by the Youth Services Task Force.
The RWA is saying that the unspent Street Team funds should
not be looked at as ongoing funding put rather as transitional funding in
setting up the newly reorganised youth services. While the Street Team funds
are limited to the amount remaining at the point the project was disbanded
there will have to be some increase in ongoing funding if there is not to be a
real cut in the funds available for youth services in the area when the Street
Team funding is exhausted.
Last week the RWA made available to agencies their
confidential proposal for how the delivery of youth services will be reorganised.
Agencies now need to work out their individual and corporate responses to these
proposals which are expected to then become part of their funding agreements.
We await news from agencies after they digest the RWA proposals to see if they
are still happy with the RWA’s reorganisation of youth services. In addition
the RWA will be soon employing a Coordinator with responsibility for the
implementation of the reformation of the youth sector services. We understand
this will not come from Street Team money.
One of the big challenges for youth services in the area is
the quality of premises that all non City of Sydney youth services are working from. The
City of Sydney
is looking to build new premises for the area currently occupied by South
Sydney Youth Services. These premises could also suit some of the activities of
the Fact Tree if they and the SSYS
were prepared to operate from the same premises. Both agencies each have
unsuitable premises and a number of reports over the last few years have said
the Fact Tree needed to urgently
find a new location without the mould and OH&S problems. PCYC has the
foundations of part of their premises subsiding and continuing uncertainty over
the future of their site depending on what happens with the DoH redevelopment
of the Elizabeth Street.
The Settlement also has significant
issues with their hall which needs a lot of work including soundproofing if
they are to provide the extended hours that the RWA is expecting services to
provide.
As the problems faced by the services that had to recently vacate the old Redfern School showed, there is a major need in the area is for suitable premises for human services to operate from (see Looking for Premises in Redfern Waterloo - the South Sydney Community Aid experience). High inner city rents, years of government funding which excluded allowances for premises has left services with premises in poor condition.. Many feel that the RWA needs to recognise this as a major problem and address the issue through a commitment to funding upgraded premises for services in their Built Environment Plan.
Capacity Building or Community Development and Co-operation or Duplication
While the RWA say they are happy with what is happening in
the Capacity Building Taskforce, it has been the subject of most questions back
to us. Is it aimed at building agency capacity or community capacity? Is it
involved in community development or is this something else? Why are existing
community development workers not being used by this taskforce? Given the
overlap in their activities how do the Capacity Building Taskforce’s activities
mesh with those of the Community Safety Taskforce and other existing services?
The short answer to these questions seems to be that the Capacity Building
Taskforce is to deal with a range of aspects of the HSPlan that do not neatly
fit into the other Taskforces.
A number of these areas overlap with activities of the City
of Sydney with
whom the RWA say they now have a very good working relationship. The Capacity
Building Taskforce deals with items as diverse as the Redfern Festival,
community BBQs, food co-ops, cultural history tours, cultural plans and
improving Aboriginal community capacity. (We have provided a more comprehensive
list from one of their early meetings at the foot of this email so you can see
the breadth of the areas covered).
One of the areas covered by the Capacity Building Taskforce,
that is causing tension between some NGOs and the RWA, is the implementation of
the proposal in the HSPlan to establish a Food Co-op. There already is a
functioning Food Distribution Network and a number of other food programmes in
the area. Recently The Factory also became involved as a result of a posting on
the “Community Builders” website that suggested a Food Co-op might help address
issues such as access to appropriate food, food related health issues and food
preparation / knowledge as this was identified as being an issue in
Redfern/Waterloo. The RWA responded to the post that a Food Co-op was planned
for the area in the HSPlan.
A Food Services Working Party involving the RWA and some of
the interested NGOs was set up and there have been a number of meetings to see
what might be done to take the idea forward. We have been told that there is
considerable frustration with the discussions to date. One set of issues
revolve around establishing precisely what the needs are that are not being met
by existing services. The NGO members have suggested that there should be a
consultation and some research undertaken to provide this information and to
work out if a Food Coop with a shop front is the best way to address these
needs. The RWA argues the cost of undertaking the research suggested is too
high and that the RWA has already decided that a Food Co-op is what is needed,
but they are very evasive when pushed to expand on the research / basis that
underlies this decision.
A second set of issues revolves around the role that the RWA and various NGOs will play in the final service. The RWA’s position seems to keep shifting and has included at various times, the RWA being lead agency in an agency partnership and managing the project, the RWA supporting it being set up and then helping community organisations identify possible funding sources. If there is not the possibility of ongoing RWA support then some NGOs argue that this is added reason for not setting up the RWA proposed shopfront co-op which will potentially have high overheads.
The RWA is keen to get things happening so it looks like it
will push ahead to start getting food distributed rather than work through the
unresolved issues with the NGO service providers. Of course the RWA can afford
to take the approach that they will set up a food co-op and if it meets the
need then people will use it and if people use it then ongoing funding sources
will be found. Cash strapped NGOs are not to be able to punt in this way and
have always been expected to put up evidence based projects to funding bodies. Faye Williams from Inner Sydney Regional Council for
Social Development recently told a REDWatch meeting that there were many good
projects sitting in the files of agencies around the area that had been
rejected by funding bodies as not being sufficiently evidence based.
The Food Co-op discussions epitomises for some the wider
issues associated with the implementation phase of the HSPlan as it relates to
NGOs. The logic appears to say: ‘Now it is in the Plan it has to happen’. If
you question the wisdom of a particular aspect of the Plan or the RWA’s
interpretation of how it should be implemented you are painted as resisting
their attempts to: reform human services; get more bang for the government buck
and; avoid wastage of scarce resources. It has been decided, so something must
happen. It is argued by those unhappy with the RWA’s processes that this is
precisely the same logic that drove the introduction of the Redfern Waterloo
Street Team against the concerns of local human service agencies and that the
logic is in danger of leading to further ill-considered government driven
projects. The RWA does not seem to understand the importance of the ‘on the
ground’ knowledge that local service providers can bring and how service
delivery can be improved by sustained dialogue and co-operation with them.
The irony of course with the Redfern Waterloo Street Team
was that by the time the government wound it up it was just starting to respond
to the real on the ground issues and agencies said it was starting to provide a
useful service to them and the area. Over time it is likely that as projects
set up by the RWA interact with the real needs and issues of the local
community they will change to better respond to those needs. The question is
what waste and costs in resources and human services will occur until this
happens? Ironically at the same time as the RWA says it is making the changes
under the guise of avoiding wastage of scarce resources and getting more bang
for the government buck.
Lest anyone should get the impression that all RWA
initiatives are being greeted pessimistically this it is not the case. There
are many things in the HSPlan that everyone agrees with and there have been
useful discussions that will help advance the coordination and effectiveness of
human services in the area. There are many people putting time into helping
bring the HSPlan to fruition. The problem however seems to be that when too
many questions are raised, rather than looking further into the issues the RWA has
a tendency to become heavy handed and berate people for not co-operating to
help solve the area’s problems.
The feeling seems to be that local NGO services want to continue to address the issues raised in the plan co-operatively, but they want changes to be made on the basis of evidence and partnership; not just because it is in the plan. Many feel that RWA wants to get the job done and it does not seem to value the good community development practice that should be at the heart of the process. This process is especially important if there is to be successful capacity building within Redfern Waterloo that will carry the changes forward.
RWA Funding
During discussions the question of ongoing funding for the RWA came up, in part based on statements that the RWA Human Services had funding for three years and that they were halfway through that funding. We have clarified this with the RWA. The RWA took over the functions of the RWPP which had funding guaranteed for three years. At the end of this time the RWA will need to seek further funding as part of the normal budgetary process for what the RWA considers is required to continue to implement the HSPlan and improve the human services of the area.
Capacity Building Taskforce – What is on its Agenda?
CRC provides $10K pa for up to
three years on condition that LGA funds even for further two years (only
available to Councils).
City currently proposes that the
festival will be in Dank St
for one more year and then it is likely to come back to this end of
Redfern-Waterloo in 2007.
RWA, City of Sydney, NGOs
Hosting Open-day and Sticky-beak
tours
Walking tours of historical sites
in RW.
Purpose: to determine and
highlight a Redfern-Waterloo “identity”.
Sources of advice may include:
Ministry of Arts - Elaine Lindsay
Aboriginal Institute
UTS
Heritage Office
State Historian?
Royal Aust Historical Society
Heritage week – Shirley
Fitzgerald
History week
Local Council libraries and
meeting minutes - including Marrickville (Chris Meadle) – may be a source
of info
Australia
Council – (Aboriginal Arts) Lydia
Miller.
Events calendar for the local
area
Identify possible groups (eg NABS
etc).
Link to possible themes eg:
· “meet
your neighbour”
· launch
of community calendar of local events
· link
BBQs to community calendar events
· link to
NAB consultations
· hold in
pocket parks
· “hot
spots” barbies - reclaim the space
Factory
currently looking at establishing a Co-op
Issues to be addressed include:
·
location / site
·
partners
· shop
front
·
equipment
· links
with local cooking groups
· links
with existing food distribution network.
Activities within the
Redfern-Waterloo public housing estates
RWA surveying agencies re current
training
Consider doing training in two
stages.
Stage 1 Aboriginal CCT
Stage 2 CALD CCT.
CCT should also be a component of
staff induction. CRC estimates that training could be needed about every
three months due to staff turnover etc. Trainers should be accredited.
Staff with CCT skills should have these skills reflected in their workplace
roles.
Development of a cultural plan
Ministry of Arts cultural
planning guidelines - copies provided. Also has $ writers fellowships, grants
for histories, book publishing.
Development of a communication
plan
Mentoring section of Regional
Arts Fund may be a source of $ if there was a relationship between R-W and a
regional area.
Development of Terms of Reference for a consultant to
develop the cultural and communication plans.
Common web portal:
LINCS database, CRC Community
LINCS database (www.lincs.com).
City of Sydney to maintain CoS
component of LINCS database
Dedicated website - still an
option
An information centre would
require a coordinator and would require recurrent funding of at least $50kpa.
Build partnerships between the Aboriginal community, the
RWA and other levels of government
-priorities and solutions
-community leadership
-positive role models and
champions
-greater involvement of Elders
Aboriginal Community Capacity
-training staff and committee
members
-mentoring to strengthen capacity
and governance
