Allambi Cultural Hub: July 2023

The Allambi Cultural Hub has been launched on the Allambi Care intranet! The Hub provides cultural resources, videos, photos, cultural consultation bookings, training, details on events that are coming up, as well as Aboriginal programs in different communities for staff and young people to attend.

During the start of July, we had youth, carers, and staff participate in the smoking ceremony at Civic Park and proceeded to march to Newcastle Foreshore Park to commence the Awabakal NAIDOC day event. There was many organisational stalls with activities, merchandise giveaways, information about supports and services from community to government sectors, free sausage sizzles, face painting, dance and singing performances.

Allambi Care was honoured to be part of this amazing event with staff volunteering their time in the merchandise stalls as well as hard work of providing sausage sizzles. Staff from different departments across Allambi from People Support and Culture, ITC and NDIS, Foster Care, Outreach, Operations, Youth workers and the Cultural Team all supported the event. A big thank you goes out to those staff from those departments and also the young boys and girls that came in to be apart of the event.

Allambi Care will be hosting our Allambi NAIDOC event on Wednesday 26^th of July. Please keep an eye out for the invitations! If you are wanting to be part of the event, we will be doing a Smoking ceremony, guest speaker, dance performance and lunch.

Important dates/events for the month of August:

• Every year during the month of August, National Aboriginal Children’s Day is held on the 4^th, where it is celebrated across the country for families and communities to strengthen and immerses our kids with culture.

The theme for 2023 is “little voices, loud futures”, this is to raise awareness for the bright futures of our children and the potential for their voices to pave a new path for our nation.

The History of Children’s Day, in 1988, the first National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day was established on the 4^th of August and was set against the backdrop of protests led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their supporters during the bicentennial year. Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander people decided a day was needed to celebrate our children, to grow their confidence and help them feel special and included.