Healing Family Violence Through Social and Emotional Wellbeing
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Whānau - In-Person Only
| Tuesday, October 22, 2024 |
| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM |
Overview
Clinton Bennell, Nunga Mi:Minar
Speaker
Mr Clinton Bennell
Men's Wellbeing Coordinator
Nunga Mi:Minar
Healing Family Violence Through Social and Emotional Wellbeing
Abstract
Nunga Mi:Minar Incorporated – Northern Regional Aboriginal Domestic Violence and Family Violence Service, is a not-for-profit Aboriginal Community Control Organisation with over 40 years of service delivery.
We are an organization, committed to working with people through their healing journey. We work alongside individuals and families in supporting them to strengthen their social and emotional wellbeing, so they can be safe strong, healthy, resilient and self-sustainable.
We provide culturally responsive, specialist service to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals and families impacted by Domestic and Family Violence. Lived experience, community engagement, voice of our families and cultural responsiveness are essential elements of our success, growth and expansion of service. It is their promotion that contributes significantly to the credibility of the service. Nunga Mi:Minar Inc. values compliments all areas and aspects of our service delivery:
• Provide respectful engagement
• Listen to individuals and families and co-design their supports
• Provide a safe place for individuals and families
• Foster a place of non-judgement
• Act with Integrity
• Foster and promote self-directed support
• Promote holistic service support for individuals and families
• Respectful of diversity in all its forms
This is a holistic family response that focuses on long-term healing and recovery via complex case management that prioritises safety, culture, addressing trauma and underlying causes of harmful behaviour, and connecting to ongoing support, including disability supports where necessary.
We are an organization, committed to working with people through their healing journey. We work alongside individuals and families in supporting them to strengthen their social and emotional wellbeing, so they can be safe strong, healthy, resilient and self-sustainable.
We provide culturally responsive, specialist service to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals and families impacted by Domestic and Family Violence. Lived experience, community engagement, voice of our families and cultural responsiveness are essential elements of our success, growth and expansion of service. It is their promotion that contributes significantly to the credibility of the service. Nunga Mi:Minar Inc. values compliments all areas and aspects of our service delivery:
• Provide respectful engagement
• Listen to individuals and families and co-design their supports
• Provide a safe place for individuals and families
• Foster a place of non-judgement
• Act with Integrity
• Foster and promote self-directed support
• Promote holistic service support for individuals and families
• Respectful of diversity in all its forms
This is a holistic family response that focuses on long-term healing and recovery via complex case management that prioritises safety, culture, addressing trauma and underlying causes of harmful behaviour, and connecting to ongoing support, including disability supports where necessary.
Biography
Clinton Bennell is a proud Noongar and Wiradjuri man, living on Kaurna Country (Adelaide). Working to support, nurture and create opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander communities to heal, grow and thrive is Clinton’s passion.
Experienced across Community Services, AOD, Health, Education and Correctional Services, Clinton brings a holistic approach, with a wide perspective of how and where impact can be made.
Clinton currently works at Nunga Mi:Minar and is focused on working primarily with Male perpetrators of family violence and fostering inter-generational healing with a social and emotional wellbeing approach.
