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Children's Ground

Children’s Ground strives to end complex and extreme disadvantage by transforming how systems work with First Nations communities. Children's Ground is implementing and evidencing a new approach designed by First Nations people. It's a 25-year strategy responding to key social, cultural and economic determinants of health and wellbeing to ensure every child is born into a life of opportunity. The service system ensures First Nations people have access to cultural knowledge and practices and equitable access to western systems working with children pre-birth, their family and whole community. We deliberately work with communities that have experienced generational disempowerment, trauma and inequity.

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Who are we?

"We are worried about the health of our mothers and children. We have seen our way of looking after our women and babies pushed aside. We need to bring our ways back. Our babies are being born without the cultural practices that are important for them when they are born and while they are growing up. Our culture and identity is important for the rest of their lives. When our mothers and babies are supported by the right people – their grandmothers, aunties and traditional healers – all of our babies will come into the world the right way with their spirits strong."