Download: Building Indigenous Leadership: Promoting the Emotional and Spiritual Wellbeing of Koori Communities through the Koori Communities Leadership Program (993KB)

This report records the experience and key learnings of five Koori community-based indigenous leadership projects and the statewide leadership network. The report includes factors influencing the emotional and spiritual wellbeing of Indigenous communities and the role of leadership and importance of building leadership to ensure the ongoing survival and growth of Indigenous communities.

Building Indigenous leadership: Promoting the emotional and spiritual wellbeing of Indigenous communities Video or DVD

Building Indigenous Leadership highlights some of the achievements of projects from the leadership program, developed as part of VicHealth’s Mental Health Promotion Plan. The program responds to the challenge of promoting the spiritual and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous communities in Victoria. It recognises the need to support Indigenous young people to play a role in defining their future. The second phase of the program, the Victorian Indigenous Leadership Strategy 2004-2006, is supported by VicHealth and the Department for Victorian Communities.

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