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- I'm a proud Yorta Yorta
Dja Dja Wurrung descendant.
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I've been working at
Yappera now for 25 years.
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So quite a long time.
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I think that child information sharing
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will definitely impact
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and benefit children within out service.
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Yappera is a multi functional
Aboriginal children service.
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Our strengths come because we are
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Aboriginal community controlled.
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We're governed by Aboriginal
members of the community
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right from the board of management
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down to the management within the service.
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I've seen a lot of children come in
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and there's particular families that will
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always stand out in my memory
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and when I reflect on what we've done
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I really think about
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what could have happened
for particular children
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and I've seen particular cases
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where children have come into Yappera
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and they've slipped through the system,
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because we've not been able to
effectively share information
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or we as educators haven't
been given the tools
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to effectively work with those children.
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So we've worked in isolation of each other
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rather than working together collectively
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to support that child.
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I strongly believe that,
that investment for services
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to be able to collaborate
have the resources they need,
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create set savings in the long term
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and allows strong
confident resilient adults.
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