Theme

Community Resilience

How Palm Island Community Company storytellers name community resilience in their own words. Every storyteller below carries the theme; every quote is verbatim and only surfaces from analyses that passed an anti-fabrication grader.

24 storytellers carrying181 mentions across the corpus

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In their own words

“"Bwgcolman" means "many tribes, one people."”
Explaining the meaning of Bwgcolman as foundational to understanding the collective vision
— Jeanie Sam
“This change has been decades in the making.”
Acknowledging the long history of advocacy for community control
— Jeanie Sam
“delivering to the community”
Describing the hub's core purpose
— PICC Community Hub Team
“assist our elders that are in the aged care”
Describing the mowing pilot program for elders
— PICC Community Hub Team
“Bwgcolman Healing Service”
The new name for the Primary Health Centre after extensive community consultation
— Rachel Atkinson
“extensive consultation with the Palm Island community and the Elders' Advisory Group”
Process undertaken before the name change was implemented
— Rachel Atkinson
“We grew up to listen and taught how to be respected”
Discussing core values instilled through upbringing
— Allan Palm Island
“I pay my respect to the Durr people here in the country for having us here”
Acknowledging traditional owners and showing cultural protocol
— Allan Palm Island
“I love Palm”
Ruby's expression of deep affection for Palm Island as her home compared to Townsville
— Ruby Sibley
“We go see the parents, ask why the kid's not at school”
Ruby describes her work with the local school engaging parents about child attendance
— Ruby Sibley
“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
— Henry Doyle
“They have games, keep 'em active”
Explaining the purpose of sports involvement for community youth
— Henry Doyle
“Usually a letter, a letterhead, and it's like, I elder blah, support this program”
Elder reflecting on superficial engagement from large organisations
— Clay Alfred
“We used to have scouts growing up”
Elder reminiscing about past youth programs that fostered growth and unity
— Clay Alfred
“Our mother was one of the stolen generation”
Ethel identifying her mother's experience as a victim of forced removal policies
— Aunty Ethel Taylor Robertson
“It was a hard struggle for our mother, raising 17 of us”
Describing the challenges faced by her mother in raising a large family under difficult circumstances
— Aunty Ethel Taylor Robertson

Quote selection: every quote shown above is from an analysis that passed an anti-fabrication grader. Analyses with critical issues are not surfaced here.

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In their own words