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
The Governments recent announcement to ban social media for young teens highlights a significant inconsistency in the government’s policies.
On one hand, the age of criminal responsibility in Australia is as young as ten, meaning children can face legal consequences and even imprisonment at that age. Yet, at the same time, these same children might be barred from accessing social media platforms due to concerns about harmful content, online bullying and harrassment.
CASSE understand that social media can be harmful for young children and teens and supports age restrictions but we would argue sending children and young teens to prison is also harmful!
This contradiction underscores a broader issue in our governments policy approach, where measures designed to protect young people from potential dangers sometimes clash with other legal frameworks affecting their lives.
CASSE continues to support some of our most traumatised young people in the NT and firmly believes rehabilitation and connection is far more beneficial than doing jail time.
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CASSE is excited to have partnered with DKA for the Apmerenge-Ntyele Festival last weekend. The festival provides a diverse range of events, including art workshops, panel discussions, cultural performances, children’s activities, market stalls, and food. CASSE is dedicated to celebrating the rich culture of our first people and supporting Aboriginal organisations and community.
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The Northern Territory government has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 10 and is reintroducing spit hoods for children.
Not only do these measures contravene Australia's obligations under international treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but they also risk worsening an already dire situation for Aboriginal children and young people.
Aboriginal children and young people are over-represented among those at risk of incarceration. Instead of such punitive strategies which could lead to lifelong damage, we at CASSE feel that the government should focus on helping our children and young people before it is too late.
Locking up Aboriginal children and young people is not addressing the root cause of why young people are committing offences and is not a strategy that is viable long term.
CASSE advocates for a strategy that listens to Aboriginal children and young people and supports them to heal their trauma and find more positive pathways in life.
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Would CASSE be willing to have this document produced as a petition to be signed by your stakeholders networks and community not just here in central Australia but broadly just my suggestion
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.
