WELCOME
FIRDA was established in 2000 by three First Nations women from Queensland who saw a need for advocacy, development and recovery services for First Nations people alongside cultural education and competency training for non-First Nations people in service delivery to First Nations people.
OUR VISION
The recovery and transformation of our communities so that all children grow up in healthy functional families that support their emotional, cultural, social and intellectual development with strong parents committed to breaking the cycles of dysfunction.
OUR WORK
First Nations Ways of Knowing Being and Doing
We are governed by a Circle of Elders and our Core Circle of Workers and Volunteers undertake our work of our mission, vision according to our values and within the knowledge systems of First Nations clans that we come from.
We teach and inspire others to follow their own cultural traditions and to engage in cultural and ceremonial spiritual life as a way of gaining strength and decolonising ourselves from the last 235 years of continued occupation and oppression of our ways of being. We believe in the sovereignty of all First Nations people.
We saw First Nations people in Canada employing cultural practices for recovery from abuse and addiction in the 1990's and decided we needed to do the same in Australia. Hence our practice of introducing our cultural ways in all our knowing, being and doing.
We teach and inspire others to follow their own cultural traditions and to engage in cultural and ceremonial spiritual life as a way of gaining strength and decolonising ourselves from the last 235 years of continued occupation and oppression of our ways of being. We believe in the sovereignty of all First Nations people.
We saw First Nations people in Canada employing cultural practices for recovery from abuse and addiction in the 1990's and decided we needed to do the same in Australia. Hence our practice of introducing our cultural ways in all our knowing, being and doing.
