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Achievements and milestones

SNAICC's  advocacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families, starting from 1981 has resulted in many key milestones and achievements both in policy developments at state, territory and federal levels and in developing innovative and useful resources for the sector. Some key milestones have been:

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• Producing a policy paper in 2005 to advocate that maintaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s connections to their family, community and culture be considered a priority by state, territory and Australian governments in their policy and practices governing out-of-home care.
• Establishing the SNAICC Resource Service to develop and share resources to support services working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families, with $4 million funding from the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

• Responding to inquiries and reform processes such as the child care broadband redevelopment, AICCA program review, and the Senate Inquiry into ATSIC’s abolition
• Securing positive developments in the Queensland, Victorian and Northern Territory Governments’ child protection reforms
• Securing agreement from the Australian Government, through its Department for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA), to develop a National Indigenous Child Care Plan

• 1996 - 2007 Representing children’s interests on government boards, councils and other bodies, such as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services Working Group of the National Community and Disability Services Ministers’ Council, and the National Children’s Services Forum. Continuing membership of successive federal govenment bodies over the Australian Council for Children and Parenting following  following our participation in the National Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse
• 2004–2005 Assisting Queensland AICCAs to secure a major funding boost for Queensland services from
• 2003–2004 Compilation of  Early Childhood Case Studies, a report on the operation of the 37 Commonwealth funded Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services, MACS, for the Department of Family and Community Services
• 2003 Convening 'Our Future Generations: National Indigenous Child Welfare and Development Seminar'
• 2003 Membership of the Federal Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Family Violence Taskforce
• 2001 Publication of Through Young Black Eyes, a national resource booklet and community elders guide responding to issues of family violence and child abuse in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Updates of Through Young Black Eyes 2005 and 2007
• 1998 & 2000 Representing the rights and needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
• June 1997 Convening the second National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Survival conference
• 1996 Developing the ‘Proposed Plan of Action for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in Aboriginal Communities’
• 1991 Production of Through Black Eyes - Family Violence Resource Handbook

• 1991 Being the first national Indigenous organisation to call for an inquiry into the Stolen Generations
• 1988 Development of National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day, NAICD, (August 4th each year), as a major annual event celebrated by communities throughout Australia;