Come and support the #CloseDonDaleNow vigil - every Friday, 5pm outside #DonDale youth prison
✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼

#JailingIsFailing #AbolishYouthPrison
#KidsInCommunity
#KidsOnCountry

#MarramNganyin (‘We are strong’ in WoiWurrung) #Aboriginal #YouthMentoring programs funded, providing culturally safe support for young people in Victoria, keeping #KidsOnCountry & in #Community💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾@KYC_Vic @YACVic 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾 @RosSpenceMP @GabbyWilliamsMP @NatHutchins

Meet the grandmas of the Central Desert, saving one child... Doreen Carroll was three when her 18-year-old mother was ...

Arrernte #StrongGrandmothers: 'Rather than waiting for the children to seek help, the grandmas go to them.' Keeping kids safe, keeping #KidsOnCountry
https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2021/grandmas/ via @brisbanetimes

@ChrisCunneen1 points out Barry Goldson has been writing about #abolition of #youthdetention for 16 years: "many of the kids in detention now weren't born then" - how many kids' lives have *we* harmed in that time?
#RaiseTheAge
#Decarceration
#KidsOnCountry
#ShutYouthPrison

Also why any *secure setting* for children must be built around principles of #kindness #care #EmotionalSecurity #empathy #compassion #passion—all the things we want to teach & model for kids.

#RaiseTheAge
#ShutYouthPrisons
#KidsOnCountry
#KidsInCommunity
#CloseToHome

#RaiseTheAge #AboriginalEducation #TwoWayLearning #KidsOnCountry