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Marabisda Community Progams

Piccaninny Foster and Kinship Care Service

Our goal is to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children can grow up safely in their own cultural community. Foster and Kinship Carers provide stability and care to children who can’t live at home, while a process is implemented to safely reunify the child and parents.

Family Participation Program

Our Family Participation team helps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families to develop their own action plans, to keep their kids safe and connected to family and culture. We’ll help you come up with a plan that will work for you and your kids, and we’ll help you get support to make your plan a success.

Indigenous Family Wellbeing Service

Our Family Wellbeing service offers an integrated approach to assist clients in accessing specialised support for all levels of need, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children in their homes, families and community reduces the risk of our children entering or re-entering the child protection system.

Mackay Connected Beginnings

Connected Beginnings draws upon the strength and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders communities. The aim is to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s and family's engagement with health and early childhood education and care. It improves access to existing early childhood, maternal and child health, and family support services so children are safe, healthy and ready to thrive at school.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Family Domestic Violence Support Service

We support families to overcome trauma and develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to regain control of their lives. Families have access to specialised counselling, training in life skills, and links to health, legal and specialist services.

Trading Tracks

Trading Tracks is leading the way in assisting Indigenous businesses in the regions of Mackay, Central Highlands, Isaac, and Woorabinda. Our aim is to help create a strong, sustainable business by building capacity and capabilities through the facilitation of business development and mentoring services, in a way that addresses the unique ways and needs of Indigenous business.

Delegated Authority

The Dhanba Ngadyu Mala (Yuwi Language: “Hold My Hand”) Delegated Authority program seeks to enhance outcomes and reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the child protection system. It introduces a new approach to safeguarding these children, prioritizing cultural knowledge and centering the wishes and needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.