Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Group
Background to Safer Families Centre
The Safer Families Centre is a national and international collaboration comprising researchers, those with lived experience, policymakers, practitioners and health, family, community, and women’s services.
The Centre is working towards a future where the health sector is a place for any member of a family affected by domestic violence and abuse to seek help. Our research and collaborations are aimed at transforming health system policy and practice for effective and early engagement with families. We build innovative, sustainable models and tools for first line response, practical help, healing and strengthening of relationships.
Over the period of the NHMRC funded CRE we established an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference (Leadership) group, which provided was invaluable learning. The Leadership group concluded at the end of 2022.
Our aims
The Leadership group enabled us to-
Advocate for research outcomes aiming to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities.
Engage with an Ambassador and other leaders for our Centre’s focus on research and translation aiming to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities.
Explore relevant and appropriate research protocols for transparency of networking and engagement to maximise communities’ access to information, participation and knowledge translation related to the work of the Centre.
