This National Reconciliation Week, the FASD Hub Australia celebrates truth-telling, unity, and a shared goal to strengthen reconciliation by coming together to listen and learn.
“All in” is a call to every Australian to show up for the journey to reconciliation.
Watch this SBS Australia video to explore what allyship looks like in action, highlighting the importance of:
- Starting with awareness
- Building understanding
- Putting learnings into practice, or taking action, and
- Connecting to community.
To learn about culturally safe ways of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on the topic of FASD, see the FASD Indigenous Framework published within the Australian Guidelines for Assessment and Diagnosis of FASD (2024).
The FASD Indigenous Framework recognises that Aboriginal voices must be prioritised and privileged throughout the assessment and diagnostic process. The Framework combines the wisdoms of strengths-based Aboriginal worldviews, holistic and integrated in nature, with those of Western medicine and therapeutic models of care to create new knowledge and practice of value to all Australians.
The Framework is grounded in three driving principles:
- Knowing (knowledge – what do we need to know to be culturally responsive)
- Being (self-knowledge and behaviour – what do we need to be to be culturally responsive)
- Doing (action – what do we need to do to be culturally responsive).
The FASD Hub Australia team is ‘ALL IN’. We’re listening and we care.
