Uniting's Reconciliation Action Plan represents "an ambitious set of commitments" to making the world a better place for Aboriginal people, executive director Tracey Burton says.
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The leader of the community services provider travelled to Dubbo on Thursday for the launch of the plan, which was marked with a celebration of culture at Wesley House.
It was attended by local elders, community members, Uniting staff working across the western NSW region and members of the Uniting Church at Dubbo.
The Reconciliation Action Plan will see the expansion of cultural connections across all services, ensuring leaders and employees "recognise, respect and connect Aboriginal voices".
Key to that is Uniting's Cultural Inclusion Program, which aims to embed culture through family support work, connect young people to their community and identity, as well as educating non-Aboriginal caseworkers and government partners in how to better connect with Aboriginal clients.
Ms Burton said it was a significant and exciting day.
"With all of our staff, if we all commit to this, if we all start talking in our communities, in our homes and educating people and celebrating Aboriginal culture, we can actually change beyond the boundaries of the services we actually do at Uniting," she said.
"So it's a very ambitious set of commitments that we're making very loudly and we're going to measure ourselves against how we go in performing against this over the next two years.
"Our board's committed, we've resourced it and we're really excited to be here in Dubbo in a place where it's really important that Aboriginal services and Aboriginal employment is fit for purpose."
Uniting has also made a commitment to boost Aboriginal staff representation and retention through initiatives including its partnership with TAFE NSW.
It reports that of its 9000 staff across NSW and ACT, close to 3 per cent are Aboriginal, on a par with the general population.
It's target is to raise that to 5 per cent, and it may look to the western region, where the percentage of Uniting staff identifying as Aboriginal is much higher.
Uniting head of western NSW region Pam Wells was optimistic the organisation could reach its target.
"So currently we've got about 40 per cent of our staff in western NSW identify as being Aboriginal and that's deliberate because we work in communities where we have high populations of Aboriginal people and those vulnerable people are needing to access the services we provide," she said.
"So it's really important we have Aboriginal people providing those services to Aboriginal communities.
"Walking alongside our other colleagues to do that better as well and engage really strongly with our Aboriginal communities.
"So there's various needs of why we need to do that, not just having an Aboriginal person in a position but it creates better outcomes for our children, youth and families in the communities we're working in today."