Pasifika Family Wellness Project
Courageous and hopeful talanoa to navigate family violence within our Pasifika Communities in Naarm
The Pasifika Family Wellness Project was set up and developed as part of the Victorian Government program to support and address family violence during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, response and recovery.
The purpose of the Pasifika Family Wellness Project was:
To communicate family wellness and family violence from a Pasifika Perspective that will: uphold Pasifika core values and beliefs; ensure culturally responsive language to ground, lead and inform our solutions within our community.
The Pasifika Family Violence Project Team would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Wjurundjerri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their elders of both past, present and emerging and recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.
“We have to be revolutionary in our pursuits. Can’t be passengers, we have to channel our ancestral navigator strength.”
— Associate Professor., Damon Salesa