Far West Change Agenda
The Far West Change Agenda is the culmination of work undertaken by Far West Community Partnerships in consultation with the community. It is the blueprint for social change in our region, identified and led by our community members and leaders.
Our collective vision for the Far West Region is for our people to be happy, healthy and wealthy. We want people to be empowered to make their own decisions through choice, not chance, and be given the opportunity to shape their own future.
We believe for people to be empowered and accountable, change should be led by the community - this agenda aims to facilitate that change.
The aspirations in the Far West Change Agenda aim to address intergenerational social and economic disadvantage, enabling the cultural recognition and determination of the Aboriginal Communities of the Far West Region: Ceduna, Koonibba, Scotdesco, Yalata and Oak Valley, while working across whole of community to uplift us all.
The Far West Change Agenda is for all members of our community. We see through the collective lens of the Far West Region, and believe positive change occurs when you bring the whole community along.
Happy, Healthy, Wealthy: The Basis of the Change Agenda
The approach is simple: people want to be happy, healthy and wealthy.
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For so long we have talked in deficit terms of vulnerability, sickness, and poverty, where we continually describe what are seen as the issues, the problems, what’s not working.
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Over time the deficit approach becomes ingrained in our thinking and in our planning, and communities begin to describe themselves in those same terms.
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Happy, Healthy and Wealthy as a concept came out of initial consultations with the Far West Aboriginal Community Leaders Group (FWACLG). The Leader's Group were asked to describe what change would look like within their communities. What followed was a series of workshops and engagement that described what ‘change’ would look like within each community.
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This is what our community came up with:
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So, how do we get to happy, healthy and wealthy?