Karabena Consulting partnered with Swinburne University's Moondani Toombadool Centre (MTC) to develop a Strategic Plan for their Indigenous Innovation Hub. This plan is aimed at nurturing Indigenous entrepreneurship, aligning with the cultural values and needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Project Timeline: September 2023 – January 2024
The Australian Government established Primary Health Networks (PHNs) to increase the efficiency of medical services, reduce fragmentation of care and improve health outcomes for everyone, especially the most vulnerable. The Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN) is one such example of these networks.
Project Timeline: July 2023 – December 2023
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) has contracted Karabena Consulting to undertake a multi-year cultural safety audit to explore the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and staff regarding cultural safety issues; and improve the cultural safety of the hospital’s services.
Project Timeline: July 2021 – August 2023
Karabena Consulting was engaged by VACCHO to independently measure the ‘health’ of their partnerships with four Victorian cancer organisations. This involved disseminating a Partnership Health Check survey, conducting team interviews, and facilitating a reflection workshop with VACCHO and its participating partners.
Project Timeline: August 2023 – October 2023
Karabena Consulting was contracted to facilitate the meeting of all members of Victoria’s Closing the Gap Partnership Forum, now named Ngaweeyan Maar-oo, to establish the self-determining priorities and driving implementation action on closing the gap.
Project Timeline: August 2023
The KWT Fund, recognising the need to centre Indigenous perspectives in its philanthropic efforts, sought to create a grant making impact assessment tool that respects and incorporates these principles.
Project Timeline: August 2022 – August 2023
The Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN) has made significant strides towards bolstering community representation within its governance and advisory panels.
Project Timeline: June 2023 – August 2023
Karabena Consulting has long been interested in improving economic outcomes for First Nation’s people across Australia and the world.
Project Timeline: August 2022 – November 2022
Karabena Consulting was engaged by Mercy Hospitals Victoria Ltd to lead the co-design of their 2023-2026 Aboriginal Employment Plan.
Project Timeline: September 2022 – June 2023
Karabena Consulting was engaged by the Centre for Evaluation and Research Evidence (CERE) to lead a culturally sensitive data collection initiative in the evaluation of the Family Preservation and Reunification Response (the Response) Phase 2 program.
Project Timeline: March 2023 – June 2023
This project aimed to support the First Nations Gambling Awareness Program (FNGAP) to meet the requirements of recommendations made in the PricewaterhouseCoopers (Indigenous) Evaluation Report (2022).
Project Timeline: November 2022 – May 2023
Karabena Consulting was engaged by the City of Melbourne (COM) to consult with Stolen Generations survivors, their descendants and others impacted by the government policies that led to the Stolen Generations in Victoria.
Project Timeline: January 2023 – May 2023
Karabena Consulting was engaged to undertake workshops on Indigenous Data Sovereignty in preparation for stakeholder consultations.
Project Timeline: December 2022 – April 2023
The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (‘the Commission’) was requested by V/Line Corporation to conduct a review of the compatibility of its training materials with human rights set out in the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities 2006 (VIC) (the Charter).
Project Timeline: January – March 2023
Every year, the CTG Campaign prepares a response to the Commonwealth’s Closing the Gap Annual Report, and in late 2022 commissioned Karabena Publishing to write and produce its 2023 Report, which was launched in Sydney on 16 March 2023.
Project Timeline: 1 December 2022 – 8 March 2023
This project is part of the larger Cultural Audit project Karabena is undertaking with SVHM to actively improve health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, patients and their families by improving the cultural safety of the hospital.
Project Timeline: November 2022- February 2023
Karabena was engaged by the Victorian Department of Transport (the Department) to develop an Aboriginal Cultural Safety Framework (the Framework) for the entire Victorian Transport Portfolio (the Portfolio), consisting of more than 30 separate and variably interconnected agencies.
Project Timeline: April 2022 – January 2023
Karabena Consulting was engaged to facilitate a Trauma Informed practice course for all community focused workers to support the use of tools and strategies when identifying and dealing with trauma and/or vicarious trauma.
Project Timeline: October 2022 – December 2022
Read MoreKarabena Consulting was engaged by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria to support the establishment of the Victorian Closing the Gap (CTG) Partnership Forum. The CTG agenda contains key responsibilities, accountabilities, and commitments to close the gap for current and future generations of Aboriginal Victorians for the next 10 years.
Project Timeline: February 2022 – December 2022
Read MoreThe project focused on the development of a Business Case for the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Community Strategic Plan. In partnership with atticusnow, Karabena Consulting led one of the strategic initiatives of focusing on inclusive and sustained decision making among people in the region.
Project Timeline: May 2022 – December 2022
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