Victorian Government Positioning Aboriginal services for the future project
The Positioning Aboriginal services for the future project aims to ensure Aboriginal people receive the best possible services into the future by examining the question of �What will make a strong Aboriginal community controlled sector in 2025?’
The project is a partnership between key Victorian Aboriginal peak and statewide bodies and Commonwealth and State Government departments. It provides a valuable opportunity for CEOs and board members of Aboriginal community controlled organisations to take time out from day to day activities to think about the future both for the sector and for their own organisations.
The project was commissioned by the joint Victorian and Federal Government Joint Agency Group in July 2006 – which includes representatives from all departments funding or regulating Aboriginal community controlled organisations. The project began from the premise that improving the life expectancy, quality of life and health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people was critically dependent on the best possible services being delivered by a strong Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector into the future.
VCOSS strongly supports this work, and shares the belief that the best outcomes for Indigenous Victorians will be achieved through ensuring a strong Aboriginal Community Controlled sector.
VCOSS supports and shares the vision for Aboriginal People: �Valued, self-determining and culturally strong Aboriginal peoples’.
VCOSS also supports and shares the vision for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector: �A strong Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector that contributes to ensuring health and wellbeing outcomes align with Aboriginal people’s aspirations.’
Both of these were articulated in the Positioning Aboriginal Services for the Future Joint Agency Futures Plan – Working draft, August 2008.
Further information, including relevant reports, about the Positioning Aboriginal services for the future project is available at: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/koori/posfuture.htm