Aboriginal Youth Safe Space Leadership Project: Final Report

Authors

• Sandra Wooltorton, The University of Notre Dame AustraliaFollow
• Catrina Aniere
• Betty Logan
• Maxine Dimer
• Tamara Donaldson
• Krystal Donaldson

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Publication Date

2025

Description

The Aboriginal Youth Safe Space Leadership Project was a successful project that used mixed methods to research and refine leadership practice for a group of young leaders, in a context of food insecurity and marginalisation of some young people. Increasingly, young leaders demonstrated an effective relational leadership style involving interconnections, mentoring, networking, many integrated skills, and deep contextual embeddedness. We summarise it as ‘knowing the relational way’. The leadership style used to support and encourage the young leaders is underpinned by relationships of rapport, trust capital, caregiving and love borne of commitment over time.

Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and family social and emotional wellbeing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based research

Partners

Channel 7 Telethon Trust

Millennium Kids

Judumul Aboriginal Corporation

Publisher Name

The University of Notre Dame Australia

Place of Publication

Fremantle, Western Australia

Recommended Citation

Wooltorton, S., Aniere, C., Logan, B., Dimer, M., Donaldson, T., & Donaldson, K. (2025). Aboriginal Youth Safe Space Leadership Project: Final Report. Nulungu Reports Retrieved from https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_reports/7