What is Ninti One’s Role?

What is Ninti One’s Role?

Ninti One is the lead organisation in the Quality Service Support Panel (QSSP), which works with SCfC communities by engaging with evidence around children, families and wellbeing.

Ninti One supports SCfC communities with the implementation of the program, working directly with SCfC Local Community Boards as well as Facilitating Partner organisations and local Aboriginal Community Facilitators (ACFs). Ninti One assists in the following areas:

• Strengthening capacity of community members to take local ownership of SCfC program
• Helping communities to understand the model and opportunities in SCfC
• Working with communities to strategise, and identify priorities
• Providing governance and training support to Local Community Boards
• Encouraging the casual employment of ACFs
• Supporting Facilitating Partners organisations in administering SCfC service delivery
• Brokering external services
• Working as a conduit of information and knowledge to SCfC stakeholders
• Responding to localised needs and requests from SCfC stakeholders

What has been achieved under SCfC so far?

While the full impact of SCfC is still emerging, we are seeing fantastic outcomes for children, families and communities across the 10 regions. Local Community Boards are pushing to address gaps in service delivery to secure a safe, strong and healthy future for their children.

In 2020, Ninti One set out to produce an SCfC program-wide evaluation of these outcomes, the product of which is the SCfC Storybook. The Storybook details the successes achieved across six communities at an individual, community and systems level. Importantly, it demonstrates that SCfC communities are investing in programs that are making important strides towards Closing the Gap.

A significant area of success for SCfC has been in employment. As of August 2021, there were 675 First Nations people employed over an 18-month period across the program, with 83% of the total workforce for SCfC identifying as Aboriginal.

The Storybook also details the strategic learnings that have come from the experiences of each community, their local boards and the programs they have implemented. Local communities have learnt valuable lessons around what the critical drivers of positive change are, including the profound impact of effective local governance and the role of cultural authority in achieving positive change. These are key insights that will inform future work towards Closing the Gap in remote Australia and ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait children get the best possible start in life.