A First Nations organisation led by First Nations communities in Australia
From infants to Elders, we work with entire communities over a 25-year period to make real and lasting change.
We are disrupting the status quo where children live with injustice and disadvantage.
We are celebrating culture, recognising talent, inspiring hope, delivering excellence and creating opportunity.
Children’s Ground is an evidenced-based approach, designed with First Nations leaders to achieve radical reform.
IT IS POSSIBLE AND IT IS HAPPENING
What do communities want? The very best for their children.
The Children’s Ground Approach:
Every child born today should experience a lifetime of opportunity, entering adulthood strong in their identity and culture, connected to their local and global world, and economically independent.
If all children can experience this basic right, then whole communities will enjoy wellbeing.
We have ten operational principles and we integrate services across five key areas. Together, they address social, cultural and economic wellbeing. We align these with cultural knowledge and global leading practice.
We are creating the evidence, over 25 years, to create systems change.
Our Platforms
Alice Springs doesn’t need a ‘solution’. Our children need agency
To have agency is to have a voice and to be able to use it, writes Arrernte Elder and founding chair of Children's Ground William Tilmouth in Crikey.
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Uncle William Tilmouth has seen years of alcohol reform in Alice Springs. He's certain it isn't the solution.
Uncle William Tilmouth has seen alcohol bans come and go in his hometown of Mparntwe (Alice Springs). He has little faith the new reforms, announced in response to the wave of unrest there, will be any different.
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