Indigenous Strengths Based Framework

Question 1

What are the six significant key principles in the Indigenous Strengths based framework?

Answer 1

1. Celebrate diversity
2. Embrace growth
3. Empower aspirations
4. Foster self determination and collaboration
5. Utilise resources
6. Cultural grounding

Question 2

How do SPs celebrate diversity?

Answer 2

1. Listen with interest and value cultural contributions
2. Provide care on country

Question 3

How do SPs embrace growth?

Answer 3

1. Communication strengths to support other areas of growth
2. Multilingualism as a strength that build communication resources
3. Strong vocab to identify needs/wants
4. Growth potential of weakers that can improve with support
5. Opportunity to grow knowledge of sentence structure/grammar
6. Potential to learn more words to increase interaction

Question 4

How to SPs empower aspirations?

Answer 4

1. Collaborate on goals and aspirations. What do they want to achieve?
2. Work together with a clear plan to achieve goals
3. Transparency in all areas of care

Question 5

How do SPs foster self-determination and collaboration?

Answer 5

1. Provide options and information to allow clients to make informed choices
2. Value and respect clients decisions
3. Make plans for services led by individuals, families and communities
4. Create a safe space for opinions to be shared heard and respected

Question 6

How should SPs utilise resources?

Answer 6

1. Incorporate books by Indigenous authors
2. Incorporate photography by Indigenous artists for visual stimuli
3. Engage kinship and community support systems