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Family Support Services

Wandjoo to Wungening Moort

The need to keep our koolangka and young people safe at home, connected to Boodja, culture and community, runs strong in our Aboriginal families.

The impacts of colonisation, including the Stolen Generations, have hurt many families and contributed to an over-representation of our children in the child protection system.

Here at Wungening Moort, we recognise that caring for koolangka can sometimes be a struggle when carrying intergenerational trauma. We also know that your moort and parenting strengths can go unnoticed by the child protection system.

We’re here to help you keep your koolangka safe at home or to take the steps you need to bring your little ones home.

How we support you to keep koolangka at home

If you’re needing support to keep your moort together and have an open case within the child protection system, Wungening Moort can be a lifeline. Our service is culturally safe, responsive and practical – with our mission to help keep your koolangka safe at home with loving moort, community and culture.

We will visit you and your moort at home (or somewhere comfortable) and help you to come up with a plan, supporting you to be the best parent you can.

We’ll support you in the areas of:

  • Parenting and relationships
  • Budgeting
  • Cooking and nutrition
  • Family appointments
  • School support and home routines
  • Counselling and other supports

We can connect you to other services to get support for alcohol and drug use, family violence, health issues and any other concerns.

Here’s how to seek Wungening Moort’s support

If you have an open case within the child protection system and need our support, getting in touch is easy.

Here’s what to do:

  • Ask to be referred to us by your Department of Communities (Child Protection and Family Support) case worker
  • Drop into one of our Hubs, where you may be eligible to self-refer at reception. You must be currently working with Child Protection on reunification or keeping children safe at home
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This moorditj Wungening Moort program is delivered by Wungening, in collaboration with three other Aboriginal community-controlled organisations.

We are grateful to our program partners

Moorditch Gurlongga Assoc. Inc.
Moorditj Koort Aboriginal Corporation
Ebenezer Aboriginal Corporation

Danjoo Wungening - Healing Together

Concentric circles showing healing framework from child at center to wider systems

Yorga and Marmum Women and Men

We support women and men to reclaim their role as parents. Family and kinship is the cultural framework to build on strengths, share knowledge, and heal relationships.

Moort Family

For cultural immersion, we involve family and kinship wherever possible, facilitating deep relationships, storytelling and the passing on of cultural knowledge. Our children belong to the collective and heal within the collective.

Boodja Country

Our children are born to the land and belong to the Land. We use Country as a method to ground our people, using the power of story to pass on cultural knowledge, values and principles.

Western Systems

Addressing the power imbalances that cause harm, we promote healing by elevating the voice of the Aboriginal community in decision making.

Our other Family Support programs

Danjoo Moort

Danjoo Moort is a moorditj Wungening program that re-empowers mob by encouraging Aboriginal family-led decision-making (AFLDM) about the future of their moort. It runs out of our Mirrabooka Hub.

This service gives you an opportunity to make a plan about the safety and wellbeing of your koolangka. The meetings can take place where your moort feels comfortable. The best part is, all AFLDM meetings are run by independent Aboriginal convenors from Wungening’s Danjoo Moort program Referral to this program is through your Department of Communities (Child Protection and Family Support) case worker, but only with your approval.

You can choose:

  • If you want to take part in the AFLDM
  • Where to have the meeting
  • Who will come to the meeting

Family Support Networks

Wungening is proud to partner with program lead Centrecare in delivering two Family Support Networks (FSNs) which provide an exceptional service throughout the Armadale, Cannington, Midland and Perth districts to divert moort away from the child protection system.

The FSNs focus on empowering your parenting skills for the safe care of koolangka at home, providing you with access to integrated and coordinated services, and supporting you in building/strengthening culturally safe support networks.

Please call:

Cannington & Armadale 1300 038 850
Midland & Perth 1300 038 380

Stronger Together

Wungening is proud to partner with program lead Centrecare in delivering the Stronger Together program – an intensive, in-home support service for those at risk of intervention by child protection officers.

Stronger Together focuses on helping moort boost their parenting skills for the safe care of children at home, while addressing issues that can impact their wellbeing, such as family violence, drugs and alcohol or mental health issues.

Please call:

Gosnells (08) 9498 9200
Midland (08) 9436 0600
South-West (08) 9721 5177

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