Kummara LimitedRegistered

Kummara responded to our community and families by providing support services to Indigenous and nonIndigenous families and children experiencing complex trauma and multiple needs, providing emergency financial support to families experiencing poverty to meet basic housing, food and safety requirements for themselves and their children. Kummara worked directly with families to resolve conflicts which lead to decreased risk and improved safety and security of parents and young children. Kummara provided support and guidance to young parents to reduce the chronic levels of sickness and illhealth in Indigenous infants and children. Kummara worked to decrease the incidence of child abuse and neglect through role modelling and support, engaging families in building selfesteem, through engagement with education from early childhood. Kummara provided a direct crisis response with the provision of direct support, counselling, advice and referral services to Indigenous and nonIndigenous parents in distress, and Kummara provided a direct tertiary response to child abuse and neglect to reunify children with their parents, Kinship group and community for those that have been within the child protection system as well as working to prevent children from being removed. This was achieved by focusing on addressing family trauma whilst also meeting the rights of children to be cared for in safe and responsive environments and communities.