CASSE Australia – Creating A Safe Supportive Environment
Our Vision
A reconciled Australia, with a two-way cultural heritage, living and dreaming together.
Our Mission
Changing minds and saving lives by using psychoanalytic approaches to violence, trauma and healing.
Our Core Work
By changing minds and spirit, we are saving lives. It is this simple belief which guides our work every day.
Latest Posts
Victoria's laws allowing children as young as 14 to be placed into adult courts is being strongly opposed by the National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.
Our young mob will suffer the most from this policy and we know this because research has shown us time and again that punishment does nothing to mend communities over many years.
CASSE totally disagrees with policies that will do more damage than good.
We hope these laws do not travel to the Northern Territory or elsewhere in Australia. Our young people need caring, cultural and community programs not harder punishments.
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A year after the NT’s landmark inquest into the deaths of Aboriginal women, the crisis of domestic and family violence continues. Too many women are still being failed.
Now more than ever, we need to invest in Aboriginal-led healing.
CASSE works with young Aboriginal men to reconnect them to culture — to make spirit good again.
When young men are strong in culture, grounded in identity and supported to heal, they make healthier choices for themselves, their families and their communities.
Culture is protection.
Healing is prevention.
Strong spirit saves lives.
Let’s back CASSE to keep doing this vital work.
#CASSEAustralia #CommunityHealing #FirstNations #CultureStrong #MakeSpiritGood
A year on from a landmark inquest, calls for action continue as NT faces scourge of DV
nit.com.au
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the names and images of Indigenous people who have died.A year on from Northern Territory Coroner Elisabet...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
CASSE Australia is proud to share that we have received a National Aboriginal Australian Agency (NIAA) grant to support new regional and remote jobs for Aboriginal people.
These roles will strengthen cultural support for Aboriginal children and young people in remote communities, helping them feel grounded, guided and connected to culture.
Recruitment details and application information will be released soon. Stay tuned for updates.❤️💛🖤
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Our annual dreams
To take 60-100 youth per year on cultural healing Shields For Living,Tools for Life camps to make traditional tools every year.
To hold day cultural healing camps for the town at-risk youth a day a week at our Desert Knowledge site.
To be in Youth Detention Alice Springs one day a week to deliver traditional tool making.
What we deliver
Through our programs and resources we create spaces for intercultural exchange and understanding.
CASSE respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the lands on which we meet and work.
CULTURAL CAMPS AND TRADITIONAL TOOL MAKING
The Men’s Tjilirra Movement has partnered CASSE with Aboriginal communities in Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), Mt Liebig (Amunturrngu), Kintore (Walungurru), Papunya (Warumpi) and Kiwirrkurra in Australia’s central western desert region. CASSE’s ‘Shields for Living, Tools for Life’ program delivers cultural camps for high-risk youth in Alice Springs at Desert Knowledge Australia, Willowra, Santa Teresa, Snow Bore, Titjikala, Tempe Downs, Lajamanu, Finke, Mutitjulu and Imanpa.
