Projects

Karen has organised and delivered over 500 First Nations cultural competency and cultural awareness training programs, mentoring programs and governance training across Australia.

    • Assisting Reviewers with assessing CSO’s Aboriginal Cultural Competence
      Department of Human Services

    • ACCO Strategic Planning Sessions and Strategic Plan – Child Protection
      Department of Human Services

    • EMR Indigenous Youth Health and Wellbeing Services Forum and Recommendations Report
      Department of Planning and Community
      Partnering with Shire of Yarra Ranges Indigenous Advisory Committee, Eastern Metropolitan Region

    • Indigenous Youth Access Forum and Report
      City of Melbourne

    • ‘The Line’ Social Marketing Campaign - concept testing research - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander components of The Line Project
      Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
      Partnering with Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Spotlight on Safety part 2: Aboriginal Attitudes to Child Protection, Foster Care and Parenting
      Department of Community Services (DoCS), NSW
      Partnering with Urbis Pty Ltd

    • EMR Indigenous Early Childhood Forum
      DEECD, Eastern Metropolitan Region (Vic)

    • Development and delivery of Indigenous Young Women’s Family Violence Camp
      Yoowinna Wurnalung Healing Service (Gippsland, Vic)

    • Review of the Gippsland Aboriginal Best Start Program
      Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative (GEGAC), Victoria
      Woolartbe Lidj 3 Year Partnership Agreement

    • Develop a Victorian Aboriginal Early Years Strategy (0-8 years)
      Department of Education, Early Childhood and Development – Victoria
      Partnering with EMS Consultants Pty Ltd

    • Aboriginal Best Start 3 Year Partnership Agreement and Workshops
      Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative (GEGAC), Victoria

    • New Directions Program for Mother’s of Aboriginal Babies Program
      Mercy Hospital for Women – Melbourne, Victoria

    • Review of the Delkaia Aboriginal Best Start Partnership Agreement, Horsham
      Wimmera Uniting Care and Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Cooperative, Horsham, Victoria

    • Evaluation of the Warrnambool Circuit Koori Court – Barwon South West Region
      Department of Justice (Victoria)
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Male Adolescent at Risk Program (MARP) Koori-specific strategy
      Department of Justice (Victoria)
      Partner: Willian Glenbar, Consultant

    • Review of the Indigenous Law Students and Lawyers Association of Victoria
      Department of Justice (Victoria)

    • Review of the Indigenous Bail Justice Program
      Department of Justice (Victoria)
      Partners: William Glenbar and Daphne Milward, Consultants

    • Evaluation of Victorian Problem Gambling Services for Indigenous and CALD communities
      Department of Justice (Victoria)
      Partner: Sub-contractor with HLB Mann Judd Consulting

    • Evaluation of the Better Pathways Strategy – Expand the Aboriginal mentoring Program for Indigenous female offenders
      Department of Justice (Victoria)
      Partner: Sub-contractor to PriceWaterhouse Coopers for Department of Justice

    • Review of the Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee (RAJAC) Network
      Department of Justice (Victoria)
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Review of Indigenous People’s Access to Legal Assistance and Services in Victoria
      Commonwealth Attorney General’s and Department of Justice
      Partner: Therese McCarthy and John Thurtell Consulting

    • Data Inventory Document review – Indigenous component for Local Government
      Safe and Healthy Communities, Victoria
      Partner: Sub-contractor to ICLEI Oceania/Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities, Victoria

    • ADF Strategy for the provision of Drug Information Services to people who work with Indigenous communities
      Australian Drug Foundation, Victoria

    • Business Plan for the South Coast Aboriginal Women’s and Children’s Healing Centre, Nowra, NSW
      Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Evaluation of the AH&MRC Sexual / Reproductive Health and Hep C Campaigns, NSW
      AH&MRC, NSW
      Partner: Write On Consulting

    • Review of the Victorian HIV, Hepatitis C and STI Strategies
      Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Evaluation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009 (CAP) – addressing the misuse of alcohol and other drugs by Indigenous people
      Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Research Study Project: Enablers and Barriers to Indigenous Drug Users’ Access to Needle and Syringe Programs
      Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Prevention of alcohol-related harms in Victoria’s Koori communities – suite of reports and fact sheets (Prevention Research Quarterly, April 2009)
      Australian Drug Foundation, Victoria

    • Aboriginal Disability – Close the Gap Project
      Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Indigenous Engagement Project
      Western Region Health Centre (Vic)

    • Aboriginal Health Workforce Development Workshop, Forums and Reports
      Department of Health, Loddon Mallee Region (Vic)

    • Aboriginal Food Security Program and workshops
      Department of Human Services, Victoria

    • Aboriginal Community Consultations Report
      Department of Human Services, Eastern Metropolitan Region (Vic)

    • Close the Gap Stakeholders Workshop and Report (Mildura Close the Gap)
      Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)

    • Aboriginal Services Plan
      Department of Human Services, Eastern Metropolitan Region (Vic)
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • SCTT 2012 Revision Aboriginal Wellbeing Project (service coordination tool)
      Department of Health
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Closing the Health Gap - Community Workshops and Report
      Department of Health, Southern Metropolitan Region (Vic)

    • Improving the Patient Experience Program – Pilot Project
      Echuca Regional Health and Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • MC for the Improving Patient Care for Aboriginal people Conference in Melbourne, Victoria
      Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)

    • Aboriginal Health Worker Forum (Outcomes Report)
      Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)

    • Aboriginal Health Promotion and Chronic Care workshops and reports
      Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)

    • Community Health Plan (Consultations and Report)
      Moogji Aboriginal Council (Orbost, Vic

    • Indigenous Audit of Programs and Services (consultations and report)
      Ranges Community Health Service, eastern metro Melbourne, Victoria

    • Aboriginal Health Promotion & Chronic Care workshops and reports
      Dandenong Community Health Service (Vic)

    • Koori Health and Leadership Program and Workshops
      VicHealth Promotion Foundation, Victoria

    • Evaluation of the Closing the Gaps in Health Outcomes initiative in Victoria
      Department of Health, Victoria
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Adult Health Assessment Project
      Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Review of the Public Health Medical Officers Program
      Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • New England Substance Misuse Project
      NSW Health
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Future of Indigenous Health Training for GP Registrars
      General Practice Education and Training Ltd
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • National Medicare Access Study
      Health Insurance Commission, Medicare Australia
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Clinical Services Redesign Project – Aboriginal Chronic Care NSW
      NSW Health
      Sub-contractor with PriceWaterhouse Coopers

    • Promotion of Emotional and Spiritual Wellbeing in Koori Communities Program
      VicHealth Promotion Foundation, Victoria

    • Evaluation of the Healthy for Life Program
      Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Aboriginal SEWB Worker and Health Worker Forum and Report, Tooleybuc, NSW
      Department of Health, Loddon Mallee Region (Vic)

    • Evaluation of the NSW Certificate IV Aboriginal Family Health (Family Violence, sexual assault and child protection)
      NSW Health
      Partner: Write On Consulting

    • National Survey on domestic violence and sex offender programs.
      Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Develop and delivery of Indigenous Women’s Family Violence Camp (4 sessions)
      Yoowinna Wurnalung Healing Service (Gippsland, Vic)

    • Establish the Boorndawan Willam Indigenous Healing Service (Eastern Metro Region - Melbourne)
      Indigenous Family Violence Action Group and Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar Consultant

    • Develop service model and implementation plan for Indigenous Healing Service
      Eastern Access Community Health and Department of Human Services, Vic
      Partner: William Glenbar Consultant

    • A Review of the Responsiveness of the Family Violence Court Intervention Project to the needs of the Indigenous Community
      Department of Justice – Courts and Tribunals Branch, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar Consultant

    • Operational Guidelines for Victoria’s Indigenous Family Violence Action Groups
      Department of Human Services, Victoria

    • Policy and Advocacy Advice, Volunteers Policy and Procedures manual and workshops
      Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service, Victoria

    • Practice Standards for Family Violence Counselling and Support Programs for Women and Children in Victoria
      Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Research Project on Indigenous Parenting and Child Protection
      NSW Department of Community Services (DoCS)
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Aboriginal Family Services Forum – eastern metro Melbourne (workshops and report)
      Department of Human Services, Eastern Metropolitan Region (Vic)

    • Indigenous Audit of Programs & Services (consultations and report)
      Relationships Australia Victoria

    • Develop Service Model and Implementation Plan for Yoowinna Wurnalung Healing Service (East Gippsland
      Gippsland Lakes Community Health Service, Victoria
      Partner: Daphne Yarram, Consultant

    • Indigenous Access and Vulnerability Forum and Report
      City of Melbourne (Vic)

    • Leaving Care Housing and Support Initiative - Statewide Indigenous Capacity Building Initiative
      Housing Support Services, Department of Human Services (Vic)

    • MC for the Indigenous Housing Conference in Victoria
      Aboriginal Housing Victoria for the Office of Housing, Department of Human Services

    • Victorian Indigenous Housing Workshop and Report
      Office of Housing
      Partner: ATSIC Victoria

    • Evaluation of the Better Pathways Strategy – Dedicated supported housing for Indigenous women on Bail - Mildura and Shepparton Transitional Housing Program
      Department of Justice (Victoria)
      Partner: Sub-contractor to PriceWaterhouse Coopers

    • Aboriginal Mentoring Development Project
      Victorian Aboriginal Economic Development Group, Ministerial Taskforce on Aboriginal Affairs, DPCD
      Partner: Indigenous Leadership Network Victoria

    • Flexible Learning Activities & Learn scope projects – engaging Indigenous learners in Vic
      Australian Flexible Learning Network – Australian Government

    • Potential Business Case – Aboriginal Tourism
      Tourism Victoria and the Ministerial Taskforce on Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat, DPCD (Vic)
      Sub-Contractor with SGS Economics and Planning

    • Indigenous Career Development Strategy (Wur-cum barra) for the Victorian public sector
      Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Department of Planning and Community Development

    • Business Development Workshop and Action Plan
      Koorie Business Network, Department of Industry, Innovation and Regional Development (Vic)

    • Advice on Indigenous Employment strategy and mentoring program
      Department of Primary Industries (Vic)

    • Evaluation of the Wurreker Strategy (Consultations, Research and Report)
      Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. (VAEAI)
      Partner: William Glenbar and Trevor Pearce, Consultants

    • Indigenous Heritage Study – Community consultation project
      City of Melbourne (Vic)
      Sub-contractor with Context Pty Ltd

    • Policies and Procedures Manual
      Barengi Gadgin Land Council Aboriginal Corporation for Native Title Services Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Strategic Plan and workshops
      Gunditj-Mirring Aboriginal Land Council for Native Title Services Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Land, Biodiversity and Fire - Indigenous Interests relating to land and biodiversity consultations, Workshops and Final Report
      Department of Sustainability and Development, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Native Title Representative Bodies Client Satisfaction Survey – national
      Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Review of the Indigenous Partnership Strategy
      Department of Primary Industries (Vic)

    • River Red Gum Forests Investigation (Part One and Part Two)
      Victorian Environment Assessment Council
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Exploring Indigenous Jobs Prospects in Primary Industries Research Project
      Department of Primary Industries (Vic)
      Partners: William Glenbar, Jason Eades and Kylie Kinsela (Consultants)

    • Develop the Indigenous Partnership Framework
      Department of Sustainability and Environment (Vic)

    • Indigenous Policy and Strategy
      Department of Primary Industries (Vic)

    • Aboriginal Community Issues for Victoria
      Department of Human Services, Child Protection, Placement & Family Services Branch (Vic)

    • Benefits for vulnerable children participating in quality early years services
      Department of Human Services, Child Protection, Placement & Family Services Branch (Vic)

    • Aboriginal Community Issues in the Eastern Metro Melbourne region
      Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (Vic)

    • Policy and Partnership Program (deliver 30 sessions)
      Department of Human Services, Victoria

    • Aboriginal service delivery issues
      Maroondah Hospital (Vic)

    • Leadership Program and Aboriginal Cultural Respect Training Program (design, develop and deliver 30 sessions)
      Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: Koorie Heritage Trust Inc

    • Leadership Program and Policy and Partnership Program (design, develop and deliver 30 sessions)
      Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: Koorie Heritage Trust Inc

    • Design, Develop and Delivery of Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Program
      For the Australian Securities Investment Commission

    • Deliver for staff and management of Transfield Services Australia, National
      Transfield Services Australia, National
      Partner: Kepa Kurl Pty Ltd, Esperance, WA

    • Design, Develop and Delivery of Module on Effects of Colonisation
      Burnett Institute
      Partner: VACCHO

    • Training Workshop
      Relationships Australia
      Partner: Koorie Heritage Trust Inc

    • Training Program (deliver 3 sessions)
      Department of Justice – Eastern Metropolitan Region
      Partner: Trevor Pearce, Consultant

    • Delivery of 7 Cultural Awareness Traninig sessions for emergency relief providers in regional NSW
      Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
      Partner: 4 Points Consultancy

    • Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Program
      Australian Drug Foundation, Victoria
      Koorie Heritage Trust Inc.

    • Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Training for NSW WorkCover staff (20 sessions)
      WorkCover NSW
      Partners: Trevor Pearce, Consultant and RMIT, Victoria

    • Cultural Awareness Training Sessions for new recruits
      Metropolitan Fire Brigade (Vic)

    • Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Program (500 sessions between 1995 and 1998)
      Victorian Local Government and Councils
      Partner: Mandala Consulting Services

    • Develop the HACC Gippsland Aboriginal Plan
      Department of Health, Gippsland and East Gippsland Region, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Gippsland HACC Services Workshops and Action Plan
      Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative (GEGAC), Victoria

    • Review of the Elders Day Care Program and Services
      Aboriginal Community Elders Services (ACES), Victoria

    • Best Practice Guidelines and Strategies for Improving Access to Aged Care Assessment Services for Aboriginal People in Victoria
      Department of Health, Victoria (COAG Funded project)
      Partners: William Glenbar, Consultant and Sheenagh Mulroy, Consultant

    • Evaluation of the Indigenous Youth Leadership Program
      Jobs Australia Foundation
      Partner: EMS Consultants Pty Ltd

    • Why Healing is a Good Investment for Business Research Project
      The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation

    • Community Engagement Plan
      Monash University, Melbourne (Vic)

    • Strategic Plan and Workshops
      Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative, Shepparton (Vic)

    • Evaluation of School External Partnerships (NSW)
      NSW Smarter Schools National Partnership on Low SES School Communities
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Victorian Aboriginal Inclusion Framework (consultations, report and presentations)
      Ministerial Taskforce on Aboriginal Affairs, Department of Planning and Community Development, Victoria
      Partner: Cooperative Change

    • Indigenous Regional and Statewide Forums on Aboriginal issues (Chair and Facilitation)
      Ministerial Taskforce on Aboriginal Affairs, Department of Planning and Community Development, Victoria

    • Bringing them Home Worker Induction Kit
      Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)

    • Bringing them Home Worker Forums x 5 (Facilitation/Outcomes Report)
      Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)

    • Develop Standards for Indigenous Languages in the LOTE Domain
      Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)

    • Statewide Indigenous Language Policy in Victoria
      Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)

    • MAYA Structural and Financial Review of Operations
      Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: MAYA Living Free Healing Service

    • Develop a Service Model (Report) Stolen Generations Victoria

    • Fund Raising Strategy and Action Plan to develop the Moondani Aboriginal Family Centre
      Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA)

    • Develop KHT Strategic Plan and Facilitation of Planning Workshops
      Koorie Heritage Trust Inc

    • Review of Administrative Functions and Operations of VAHS
      Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and Department of Human Services, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Community Development Forum and Action Plan
      Yarra Valley Community Health Service, Indigenous Health Team, Victoria

    • Community Development and Planning
      Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative, Victoria

    • National Indigenous Money Management Agenda: Community Consultations
      Reconciliation Australia
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Qualitative Research Project to identify strategies to progress SGV’s vision to support and address health and welfare of Victoria’s Stolen Generations
      Stolen Generations Victoria
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Facilitating Asset-based Community Planning with Victorian Indigenous Communities
      Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Department of Planning and Community Development
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Studies of the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS) and Whole of School Initiative (WoSI)
      Department of Education, Science and Training
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Submission Writing
      ACCHOs, ACCOs and Mainstream Community organisations in Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Protocols (consultations and report)
      Metropolitan Fire Brigade (Vic)

    • Evaluate and revise the Bringing Them Home and Link Up Program Manuals – national
      Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Community Forums, Workshops and Reports for establishment of the Traditional Healing Centre
      Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative, Shepparton (Vic)

    • Evaluation of the Bringing Them Home and Indigenous Mental Health Programs (report published)
      Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Ageing
      Partner: Urbis Pty Ltd

    • Indigenous Action Plan (consultations and report)
      City of Monash

    • Stonnington Indigenous Curriculum Project
      City of Stonnington
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Stonnington Reconciliation Action Plan
      City of Stonnington
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Review the Indigenous Policy and Consultation Report
      City of Kingston
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Indigenous Heritage Study – Stage One with Context Consulting Pty Ltd
      City of Melbourne
      Partner: Context Consulting Pty Ltd

    • Future Operations and Directions Strategy – Indigenous Advisory Committees
      City of Melbourne

    • Indigenous Protocols and Guidelines for Community Consultations
      City of Melbourne

    • Guidelines for working with the Indigenous Policy Unit of City of Melbourne
      City of Melbourne

    • Indigenous Advisory Panels Project
      City of Melbourne

    • Review of Reconciliation Victoria’s Funding and Service Agreement
      City of Melbourne

    • Indigenous Profile of the City of Melbourne
      City of Melbourne

    • Indigenous Social and Economic Development Framework
      City of Melbourne

    • Indigenous Arts Advisory Panel Workshop and Report
      City of Melbourne

    • Land, Biodiversity and Fire Indigenous consultation Workshops Report
      Department of Sustainability and Development, Victoria
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • River Red Gum Forests Investigation (Part One & Part Two)
      Victorian Environment Assessment Council
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Prevention of alcohol-related harms in Victoria’s Koori communities – suite of reports & fact sheets (Prevention Research Quarterly, April 2009)
      Australian Drug Foundation, Victoria

    • Victorian Indigenous Family Violence Task Force Report (2008)
      Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Department of Planning and Community Development
      Partner: William Glenbar, Consultant

    • Wurreker: A guide for Local Government Councils in Victoria (September 1998)
      Municipal Association of Victoria

 

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