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
Happy NAIDOC week mob from Chris Croker Luritja man and CASSE chairperson #NAIDOC2024
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NAIDOC Week is Here!
We're excited to celebrate this year's theme: "Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud." This is a special time to honor and celebrate the rich culture, history, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Let's come together to acknowledge the strength, resilience, and enduring spirit of Indigenous cultures.
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Together we can make a difference.
To donate before 30 June please visit our CASSE website at: www.casse.org.au/support-a-genuine-alternative-to-youth-detention/
Your vital donation could provide the opportunity for a young Aboriginal man to attend our “shields for living, tools for life” camps that support participants to heal trauma through connnectukng with country and culture.
Thank you again for all your support. The CASSE Team ❤️
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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.
