Assessment instructions
Important Self-Awareness Warning for students
For students completing this assessment, there are specific questions that relate to the historical experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and the current impact of those experiences.
It is important that you access your local Aboriginal Student Support Services if you find the content of this assessment upsetting or distressing.
Part 1: Research Task - Identifying cultural safety issues in the workplace
Introduction: Part 1 requires you to undertake a research task and answer specific questions about your research.
When: You must complete and submit your written assessment by the conclusion of your work placement, specified due date.
Where: The research and written requirements for this assessment are to be completed outside of placement hours so as not to impact on the student’s engagement with staff and clients during the work placement.
Resources and equipment: You should do your research by accessing online resources, local libraries or community centres. To may also choose to consult with any of the following:
You must consult with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to establish key aspects of cultural safety. This could be a colleague at work, a client or your teacher/assessor. You should negotiate with your assessor the most appropriate way to engage in this in your class and your local community. Additional research resources are listed below.
- Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) – alc.org.au
- Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG)
- Local Aboriginal Community Working Party – If this or the above options are not available, then refer to the next option below.
- Local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identities who can direct you to an appropriate person. These people may include:
- Co-workers/colleagues, relatives or friends who identify as and are accepted in the community as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- Aboriginal Engagement Co-ordinators at your local TAFE NSW Campus
- Indigenous Coordination Centre (ICC) https://www.indigenous.gov.au/communities
Specific Assessment Conditions: Prior to engagement with an Aboriginal person, community or organisation please ensure you have identified local Protocols, for further information and support please discuss with your teacher.
- Respond to the following;
- Describe how your current work and workplace integrates cultural safety for Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander people.
- Identify two key areas where you think the cultural safety practices could be enhanced
- Identify two ways in which communication can be improved with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples (this may be a colleague and/or clients)
| a) Our service create a strategies that can be used to begin and acknowledge Aborigina;l Australia .like create a calender of indigenous events that can be celebrated at the service.add local events that are happening within the indigenous community to the parent and staff notice board . |
| a)
(i)by invite Aboriginal elders from our local community to take part in celebrations and significan events in the service (ii)Plant a tree in our service to acknowledge a significant date on the indigenous calender. |
| b)
(i)by watch and listen indigenous television programes such as Natinal indigenous television network (NITV) (ii) by listen to indigenous radio programs., |
- Discuss two critical cultural issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and explain their impact on
- Communication
- Relationships
- Overall service delivery
(100-200 words).
| Discussion of critical cultural issue 1:Discrimination and racism in acknowleding the exitence in Australia,congress stresses the unique experiences of racism faced by Aboriginal and Torres islander peoples,driven by the onging implact of colonisation and historical disadvantages.
Impact on communication: many Aboriginal and torres strait Islander audiences comprise a wide range of people with different communication needs .these different needs are influenced by factors including locations ,levels of literacy ,age,cultura; considerations ,and access to technologies. Impact on relationships-the destructive impact of social dislocation caused by racism Aboriginal avoidance practices refers to those relationship in traditional Aboriginal society where certain people were required to avaid others in their family or calm The overall impact on service delivery-these impacts are the emotional impact on Aboriginal people of their experiences and their families experiences .the barriers to gaining living skills like being seperated from their family. Discussion of critical cultural issue: 2 – European colonidsation had a devastating impact on aboriginal communities and cultures . Impact on communication: during colonization ,colonizers usually imposed their language onto the peoples they colonized ,forbidding native to speak their mother tongues. Impact on relationshipsCULtural practices were denied -during colonisation severely disrupted Aboriginal society and economy The overall impact on service delivery:colonisation has resulted in ineuity,racism and the disruption of Aboriginal and torres Strait Islander cultures .this impacts severly disrupted Aboriginal society and economy of Aboriginal people. |
- Identify and describe the impacts of three Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety issues relevant to both your workplace and work sector more broadly. You must include a cultural safety issue for each of the following;
- European settlement
- Loss of land and culture
- Law and kinship
(200-400 words).
| European settlement _Prior to colonisation ,Aboriginal was multicultural with many similarities between cultures ,even so ,each had its own distictive cultural identity.the easiest way to think about this is often to give some thought to European countries.the lives of indigenous Australians today are affected by what has happened to us and our ancestors over the past 230 yrs since European arrived .thid can be hard from non-indigenous people to understand. |
| 2.Loss of land and culture_History has shown the impact that colonisation and policies have had on Aboriginal and torres strait islander cultures.dispossession of land resulted in the destruction of spiritual life and alterations to traditional lifestyle.Access to sacred sites and traditional languages were denied.attack on Aboriginal culture was caused by a lack of awareness among the europeans.it’s important to note how one culture interprets the world can be very different to how another culture interpre ts the world.for example,the colonists views on land ownership were in complete contrast to that of Aboriginal people
3.Law and kinship - |
- Consult with an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person about the key aspects of cultural safety you have identified. This could be a colleague, a client or your teacher/assessor. Record their feedback and what you established as the key aspects.
| Consultation regarding key aspects of cultural safety | Knowledge and respect for Aboriginal people
A commitment to redesigning organisations and system to reduce racism and discrimination Cultural safety is an ongoing learning journey . |
| Persons name or Assessors name: Jenney | Signature to verify: |
Part 2: Cultural safety action plan
Introduction: The final section of this assessment requires you to:
- Develop an action plan for promoting Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Safety in the workplace.
- Share the action plan in the workplace
- Respond to three short answer questions relating to the development, implementation and evaluation of the action plan.
When: You must develop and share your plan during your work placement.
Where: The research and written requirements for this assessment are to be completed outside of placement hours so as not to impact on the student’s engagement with staff and clients during the work placement.
Resources and equipment: Nil
Specific Assessment Conditions: Prior to engagement with an Aboriginal person, community or organisation please ensure you have identified local Protocols, for further information and support please discuss with your teacher.
- Develop a Cultural Safety Action Plan for your workplace. The action plan should be informed by the research you have already completed. An action plan is a tool for you to devise ways to support the delivery of services and programs that are culturally safe and encourage increased participation.
Your plan must include:
- One strategy for each of the following:
- increase participation
- build partnerships and
- enable self-determination and community control in your service delivery (10-20 words each)
Your strategies must promote cultural safety and be developed in agreement with your supervisor.
- Identify resources you can utilise to implement your strategies and promote partnerships between staff, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their communities (25 – 50 words)
- For each strategy identify how its success will be measured
- You will need to implement one of your strategies and demonstrate a range of skills during the implementation. To complete this refer to the demonstration skills report below. Skills you must demonstrate include;
- Ensuring your work practices are grounded in an awareness of your own cultural biases
- Ensuring your work practices reflect an awareness of your own and other cultures
- Demonstrating communication techniques that show respect for the cultural differences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people
- Engaging with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander interpreters and colleagues as cultural brokers according to situation needs. (if you have a situation where an interpreter is needed you should make use of this or consult with a colleague who can act as an interpreter. If no such situation arises you should discuss how you would access this if needed).
- Supporting the development of effective partnerships between staff, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their communities
- An evaluation which involves an Aboriginal and/or Torres/Strait islander person in the review. This could be a colleague, a client or your teacher/assessor. Record the conversation and their feedback below and how you have revised your strategy. Once you have the feedback from the Aboriginal and/or Torres/Strait islander person write an overall evaluation of your chosen strategy
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