CASSE Australia – Creating A Safe Supportive Environment
Our Vision
A reconciled Australia, with a two-way cultural heritage, living and dreaming together.
Our Mission
Changing minds and saving lives by using psychoanalytic approaches to violence, trauma and healing.
Our Core Work
By changing minds and spirit, we are saving lives. It is this simple belief which guides our work every day.
Latest Posts
We are so sad to hear the news from NT police about the disappearance of Kimanjayi little baby in our community.
Sending strength and love to our mob.
Hold your little ones tight 😥❤️
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Our thoughts are with little Sharon, who is currently missing in Alice Springs.
At CASSE, we are deeply concerned for her safety and wellbeing, and we stand with her family, friends, and community during this incredibly difficult time.
We are hoping with all our hearts that Sharon is found safe and brought home very soon.
If anyone has any information, no matter how small it may seem, please come forward and share it with the appropriate authorities.
Let’s all keep Sharon in our thoughts and support the community in any way we can.
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Do you know a young Aboriginl person who could benefit from cultural connection? We offer lots of programs that engage young Aboriginal boys a men with elders and mentors supporting our young fellas to make good choices and feel proud of their culture! Reach out to us for a yarn!
Aboriginal young people find their way to healing when they're connected to Country. Connecting to country builds a sense of responsibility, identity, where you belong and who you are which helps to build a young person's strength and safety.
The process of connecting with elders, learning traditional ways of living and rediscovering your own identity is the first step towards rebuilding selfconfidence and hope.
Detention will never provide this connection. Programs based upon punishment have no consideration for the trauma and loss that many youth carry and also do not support or encourage them to connect with their culture. Youth detention programs on-country allow youth to start their healing journey through connection to their culture, community, and caring adults and the data reflects the positive results of these programs.
Casse has always advocated for a culturally responsive approach to supporting at-risk Aboriginal young people; an approach that honors culture by keeping young people as close to their families, communities and country as possible. Every young person should be able to develop into the best version of who they can be.
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Our annual dreams
To take 60-100 youth per year on cultural healing Shields For Living,Tools for Life camps to make traditional tools every year.
To hold day cultural healing camps for the town at-risk youth a day a week at our Desert Knowledge site.
To be in Youth Detention Alice Springs one day a week to deliver traditional tool making.
What we deliver
Through our programs and resources we create spaces for intercultural exchange and understanding.
CASSE respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the lands on which we meet and work.
CULTURAL CAMPS AND TRADITIONAL TOOL MAKING
The Men’s Tjilirra Movement has partnered CASSE with Aboriginal communities in Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), Mt Liebig (Amunturrngu), Kintore (Walungurru), Papunya (Warumpi) and Kiwirrkurra in Australia’s central western desert region. CASSE’s ‘Shields for Living, Tools for Life’ program delivers cultural camps for high-risk youth in Alice Springs at Desert Knowledge Australia, Willowra, Santa Teresa, Snow Bore, Titjikala, Tempe Downs, Lajamanu, Finke, Mutitjulu and Imanpa.
