2020
SANE began reflecting on its cultural practices, gaining input into SANE service design and embedding acknowledgement of first nations culture.
- Development of a draft Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan.
- Mapped partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations.
- Co-designed SANE’s major services transformation with support from the ALIVE Centre for Lived Experience Research involving dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people focus groups.
- Ensured Acknowledgement of Country in SANE meetings and encouraged staff to research Traditional Owners of the Lands (their own and wherever they join their meetings from).
- Acknowledged NAIDOC Week, National Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week (internal and external).
- Ran Reconciliation events in Sydney and Melbourne for SANE’s staff, volunteers and ambassadors and included smoking ceremonies and cultural awareness education.
