Model for Engagement
The Model aims to provide a framework for non-Indigenous organisations to engage with First Nations young people effectively and authentically. It was designed to address the needs identified by collaborators including:
- Education for non-Indigenous organisations on key topics such as cultural load, intersectionality, decolonisation and cultural humility
- An intersectional and individual approach to engagement
- Multifaceted accessibility considerations
- Decolonisation of services, organisations, and systems
Drawing on key themes that emerged from the Workshop findings, three core concepts were chosen to be the foundations of the Collaborate & Connect engagement model. These are:
- Intersectionality
- Cultural Humility
- Decolonisation
These core concepts provide theoretical foundations for engagement, and should underpin all aspects and stages of engagement. Moving from theory to practice, the Workshop findings were then distilled into four key mechanisms of engagement:
- Education
- Reflection
- Connection
- Action
