← Palm Island Community Company
Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB)
service
Culturally appropriate mental health, counselling, crisis intervention. Trauma, grief, psychological health.
PICC Complex, Palm Island, QLD 4816
The voices behind this service
5 storytellers carrying the work
Themes the storytellers carry
Pooled from their interviews, only from analyses that passed anti-fabrication grading
- Community Resilience ×6
- Traditional Knowledge ×4
- Youth Empowerment ×3
- Community Governance ×2
- Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission ×2
- Cultural Protocols ×1
- Environmental Stewardship ×1
- Self Determination ×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
“I work with disengaged kids or kids who not going to school. We create programs with them”
Describing his role in youth services on Palm Island
“They have games, keep 'em active”
Explaining the purpose of sports involvement for community youth
“Usually a letter, a letterhead, and it's like, I elder blah, support this program”
Elder reflecting on superficial engagement from large organisations
“We used to have scouts growing up”
Elder reminiscing about past youth programs that fostered growth and unity
“We should have been consulted”
Elders expressing their frustration at being excluded from disaster preparedness and emergency planning decisions despite possessing generations of knowledge about surviving disasters on Palm Island
“I was in my house when it happened”
Craig explaining his location during the flood event