Port Augusta Aboriginal Families Project Review

The Port Augusta Aboriginal Families Project is now in its fourth year of operation, beginning in February of 1998. The Project was created in order to target intervention to Aboriginal families who have multiple problems, and who have been involved with numerous agencies over a long period of time. It was recognised that such families are extremely difficult to engage, and resource-heavy for all agencies with which they may be involved. It was also apparent that more-of-the-same interventions would not be useful in attempting to create change for such families. Instead, this service aimed to apply the principles of empowerment, participation and partnership, in a creative way which fits this particular client group in this specific setting: that is, Aboriginal families in Port Augusta. This report provides the annual review of the Port Augusta Aboriginal Families Project.