This is a Targeted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Position. Preference will be given to suitable Aboriginal applicants.
- Are you looking for a career opportunity where you can contribute to healing and wellbeing, advocate for systemic change and make a genuine difference for community?
- Are you an experienced manager and team player, committed to social justice and equity?
- Are you passionate about shifting the landscape for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people impacted by the criminal justice system?
- Do you want to join a passionate, diverse team in a fast paced environment where you will have opportunities for development
About Weave Youth & Community Services
Weave Youth & Community Services is a place-based community-led organisation located on unceded Gadigal and Bidjigal Land in Sydney, that has been delivering a range of programs, supports and services developed with and for the community for 48 years.
Weave’s purpose is to empower people to change their lives, and healing and connection is at the centre of our work. Weave supports children, young people, women and families who are impacted by systemic disadvantage and intergenerational trauma. Around 70% of those we support across Weave are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. As a non-Aboriginal controlled organisation, Weave is strongly committed to walking alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in their ongoing fight for justice and self-determination.
Our work at every level is guided by our Aboriginal Healing Framework.
About the Program
Weave’s Creating Futures Justice Program supports Aboriginal people aged 10–30 who are in contact with the criminal justice system to transition from custody to community and live contributing, fulfilling lives. This change is brought about through strengths-based, client-led, trauma informed, wrap-around case management model delivered within an Aboriginal Healing Framework.
Creating Futures also provides intensive support for young people on bail, on community orders or through court diversion. It provides court support and advocacy, and holistic, wraparound casework support tailored to the needs and goals of each client. 91% of Creating Futures clients are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Creating Futures also provides wrap-around case management support for some participants of the Walama List at the District Court and provides holistic case management support for 10-17 year-old Aboriginal young people as part of the Youth Bail Advocacy Program in partnership with the Aboriginal Legal Service.
