← Palm Island Community Company
Safe House
service
Residential out-of-home care for up to 6 children at a time. On-Country, family-staffed, culturally grounded. 1,439 placement nights FY23-24.
Safe House, Palm Island, QLD 4816
The voices behind this service
1 storyteller carrying the work
Themes the storytellers carry
Pooled from their interviews, only from analyses that passed anti-fabrication grading
- Community Resilience ×3
- Traditional Knowledge ×2
- Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission ×2
- Community Governance ×1
- Cultural Protocols ×1
- Youth Empowerment ×1
- Justice System ×1
In their own words
Verbatim, sourced, no fabrications
“"Bwgcolman" means "many tribes, one people."”
Explaining the meaning of Bwgcolman as foundational to understanding the collective vision
“This change has been decades in the making.”
Acknowledging the long history of advocacy for community control