CHAA updates

Inala Community House (ICH) commenced a new playgroup for mums and bubs called Happy Hearts, responding to the community’s need for more opportunities for mums to join together with other mums and support one another on their parenting journey.

Our Men’s Group – SECUR joined as a CHAA POD this month. Our ICH Men’s Group is open to all men in our community. It provides an opportunity for men to connect and build Strength, Empathy, Compassion, Understanding and Respect for themselves, their families and their communities.

Our Village CHAAter (ie working agreement) is being developed providing clarity for HUB members and their supporting organisations on the roles and expectations for being on the HUB. We started supporting our POD facilitators/peace builders to plan how they can bring their PODS on the journey of CHAA. We continue to talk with interested organisations and individuals about what role they may wish to play in CHAA. Our website is developed and goes live.

Our HUB membership is taking shape and we identified our first three PODS. Our Core Group continues to meet to provide direction for the project.

We held two co-design workshops with potential HUB members with over 15 organizations participating. Together we are working through and developing a shared vision of how CHAA will work in our communities. This includes how the HUB communicates and supports PODs and the tools and approaches that POD Facilitators/Peace Builders may need to support their PODS on this journey towards community healing and accountability. Paramount is supporting survivors to heal by elevating and being led by their voice, safety for all and the need to think and act creatively.

CHAA hosted a community engagement workshop which was attended by 30 participants from 18 different services/communities. From here we called for people to express an interest in being a part of the collectivist HUB.