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Community Partnerships
Kanat Wano, National Coordinator, Community Partnerships for MindMatters.
MindMatters community development
MindMatters focuses on the following principles:
- community organising
- community capacity/building
- community strengths-based approach
- community engagement.
The community partnership process uses community development and capacity/building principles to encourage the respective local community responses that will support and reinforce MindMatters initiatives and activities with Indigenous young people in secondary schools.
The community partnership resources and activities are closely linked with the MindMatters resources and activities. They have been developed to target the following Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences:
- secondary school students
- community leaders
- parents, families and care-givers
- education, health and youth workers.
Feeling Deadly Not Shame (FDNS) is an approach used with the young people to foster engagement with the process. The other workshops and activities assist the use of a community development approach, which includes schools to reinforce and sustain mental health and wellbeing promotion within a community context.
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