Youth Cultural Camps

In addition to the programs we run, we were able to access funding through the WA Primary Health Alliance and the City of Kwinana to deliver a Youth Cultural Camp as a pilot project in September 2022 for future initiatives. From this pilot project, we were granted additional funding through Alcoa Australia for two years’ worth of camps and funding through Lotterywest to deliver another camp in 2024 for students attending Gilmore College.

Previous camps have been held during the school holiday period targeting Aboriginal youth between 12-16 years old, providing culturally appropriate activities focusing on mental and physical health, living in community and harmony in order to develop a sense of wellbeing, belonging and enhanced self-esteem.

The aim of this program is to allow Aboriginal young people the opportunity to engage in cultural activities out on Country, transferring cultural knowledge and to connect with their culture and personal identity. We want to foster a young person’s self-identity and confidence through culture, influencing positive behaviours and encouraging alternative pathways to successful futures, in order to develop strong Indigenous role models within our community.

We are always so grateful when we are afforded the opportunity to run Cultural Camps for our communities by industry and corporations who graciously sponsor these projects.

Following our camp in 2024, we had a group of participants attend our annual NAIDOC events to perform traditional dancing and have expressed that they wanted to do this after dancing on camp. These same participants also danced at their school NAIDOC assembly shortly after, as a showcase of Indigenous pride and to share cultural learnings with the whole school.