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
Imanpa on country! Passing on stories, finding mulga for tool making and getting onto the salt! all with the next generation. Thanks James (right in photo), Clifford stuart (middle) and Mathew lynch (CASSE Cultural leader) for sharing knowledge. CASSE Cultural healing camps.
Freud Conference 2023 - Creating A Safe Supportive environment (CASSE) is pleased to contribute to the Freud Conference- Indigenous Voice/s and Psychoanalytic Listening.
Key speakers include:
Chris Croker, Chair & Director of CASSE
Ken Lechleitner Pangarte, ex- Director and researcher of CASSE
Prof Melinda Hinkson
Dr Craig San Roque, CASSE colleague
Pamela Nathan, Director of CASSE.
Come along and join in on the important conversations- it is a timely conference in the year of the Voice for the First Nations people.
www.casse.org.au/2023/04/27/freud-conference-2023/
CASSE mob farewelling Kwemenje Hoosan at Aputula - a beautiful memorial last night and a service this morning with many arriving from Alice Springs by plane and road- so very sad and many tributes being paid to a great leader
Condolences to family and friends 🙏
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.
