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Overview
This module supports organisations and frontline staff to engage with Aboriginal people in ways that are safe, respectful, and responsive to trauma.
Aboriginal people often engage with services through the lens of intergenerational trauma, systemic harm, and past negative experiences with institutions. This training helps your workforce understand how trauma can affect communication, trust, behaviour, and decision-making—and how everyday interactions can either retraumatise or support healing.
Rather than asking “what’s wrong?”, this module shifts practice toward “what has happened, and how do we respond safely?”
What this means for your organisation
Safer engagement that reduces conflict, disengagement, and complaints
Improved trust and participation from Aboriginal clients and communities
Staff who are better equipped to manage complex, sensitive interactions
Reduced risk of unintended harm caused by policies, processes, or language
What staff will gain
A clear understanding of how trauma shows up in engagement and service access
Practical strategies for communication, boundaries, and de-escalation
Greater confidence when working with distress, avoidance, anger, or withdrawal
Tools to engage without blame, judgement, or assumptions
This module is suitable for health, child protection, justice, housing, education, community services, and corporate roles where staff engage with Aboriginal people, families, or communities.
Trauma-informed Aboriginal engagement supports better outcomes for clients, safer workplaces for staff, and stronger, more sustainable relationships built on trust.
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