Indigenous Services

MADEC Australia’s Indigenous programmes provide considerable benefits to Indigenous individuals and communities. Our services are delivered to individuals to enable them to enjoy physical, emotional and social wellbeing as those enjoyed by other Australians. These support services range from familial support to give children improved early childhood development, care and education in their early years; improving literacy and numeracy of high school aged children and young adults; right through to supporting successful transition for adults and school leavers to further education and employment.

MADEC’s indigenous activities are delivered in partnership with the Commonwealth Government through the delivery of Safety and Wellbeing Programme (Indigenous Wellbeing Services) and Children and Schooling Program (Indigenous Youth Leadership Programme).

Indigenous Youth Leadership Programme (IYLP)

Targeted to the needs of Indigenous school aged children, MADEC successfully achieves the objectives of IYLP being to:

• Support families to give children a good start in life through improved early childhood development, care, education and school readiness.
• Get children to school.
• Improve literacy and numeracy
• Support successful transition to further education and work

For MADEC to achieve this our key objectives for each individual participant are to:

• Support participation to overcome barriers that might prevent them engaging in the education system.
• Increase access and participation of Indigenous children in early childhood care and education.
• Reduce educational disadvantage for Indigenous youth.
• Increase school attendance and improving educational outcomes, including literacy and numeracy.
• Increase Year 12 or equivalent attainment, including vocational training and education.
• Increase numbers of students working toward a post school qualification in Certificate III or above.

MADEC Australia’s has supported almost a thousand young Indigenous/First Nation Australians to alleviate poverty or distress since the programme inception. We are proud to continue to play a prominent role in improving outcomes for young Indigenous/First Nation Australians as future leaders of our communities.

Indigenous Strategy – Wellbeing (IWS) Programme

The objectives of IWS Program are to:

• Ensure Indigenous/First Nation Australians enjoy levels of physical, emotional and social wellbeing as those enjoyed by other Australians.

To achieve this our IWS Program implements a number of support strategies including:

• Substance misuse and harm interventions
• Improved contact with the criminal justice system
• Violence and victim support interventions
• Individual Improve wellbeing and resistance programs

MADEC Australia’s is proud to provide support and guidance that will lead to the alleviation of poverty or distress by improving comes for indigenous Australians and First Nation communities.