Welcoming Our Little Ones: A guide for families to raise strong and deadly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

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This guide was written by and for families with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

It shares some stories to support families to raise healthy and grounded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

It is made up from shared stories from many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

No matter where you live or where you are at on your cultural journey, if an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander child is part of your family, you may find this guide helpful.

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Community artwork

What better way for our Wakwakurnaku Kumangka Pudnanthi (WKP) families to showcase their amazing achievement in co-creating a resource based on their own lived and living experiences than through their own artwork that represents an expression of themselves and what they had envisioned in the co-designing of the WKP group.

Each family that could contribute their time to this artwork used their handprints along with their minya (little) one’s hands or footprint filled with their own design. This is a representation of their initial vision for the group of using their hands, which to them meant: connection, family and learning in partnership with their minya one and with each other.

Families used traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art designs to help inspire them as well as adding their own personal touch, including the expression of their own minya one’s art with their own age-appropriate drawings. The lines joining the handprints of the mums and minya one’s are representing the connections that the families have all made with each other and the dotted circles represent the contribution of each of the families to the resource, as well as the WKP group. Some of the traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art used to inspire this piece include the yarning circle, family, bushtucker, animal tracks and ocean waves.