Kaiela Institute LimitedRegistered

The Kaiela Institute has been established to provide a place and a process to encourage and support our leaders and institutions to collaborate and take a more strategic approach to building the future of our community. It gives us the chance to move from the necessities of crises intervention to the potential of a real design of future. It is a response by Aboriginal people across the Goulburn Valley indicating, like the statistics do, that our sustainable future is under threat. Mental health is the overriding issue when you live in a pressure cooker of cultural oppression and generational patterns of abuse. In Shepparton we have been relentless in our desire to make radical changes to extreme disadvantage. The Institute, like KRIC before it, is a community investment organisation that supports leadership to question, rethink and act. Our approach is to create an environment that will promote collaborative visioning and aspiration for a positive future for our community. We work in partnerships with Indigenous and nonIndigenous organisations across four key areas, namely Aspiration, Enablement, Responsibility and Opportunity. Delivering in education, employment, health, social inclusion, cultural expression and cultural affirmation.