Using culturally responsive approaches to build capacities of African Australian mothers
The Empowering African Mothers Project: Ubuntu in Practice project consists of two programs that will use culturally responsive approaches to build capacities of African mothers to support their children and young extended family members at risk of offending or reoffending. This project will be implemented in the South East and the Western suburbs of Melbourne where the largest proportion of Victorians born in Africa reside.
The Empowering African Mothers Project will observe, document, and embed Ubuntu principles into the practice of frontline support workers; and build African families’ capacity to connect with their young people, strengthening their sense of belonging and community connectedness.
This project team has successfully developed the Ubuntu framework of support from a community-based research project that focused on young African Australians at risk of offending or reoffending.
This project’s co-design will involve community organisations – Afri-Aus Care and Australian African Foundation for Retention and Opportunity (AAFRO) – as well as African community members.
University-based researchers
Dr Diana Johns, School of Social and Political Sciences
Dr Gerald Onsando, School of Social and Political Sciences
External collaborators
Mamadou Diamanka, Australian African Foundation for Retention and Opportunity (AAFRO)
Selba Gondoza Luka, Afri-Aus Care
For information about this project, please contact:
Dr Diana Johns
School of Social and Political Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Phone: +61 3 8344 5394
Email: diana.johns@unimelb.edu.au
@crimsonchat