Shared Responsibility Agreements

Shared Responsibility Agreement

The Bathurst community want better access to employment and community services and training.

The SRA will provide a 12-seater bus and trailer for community transport.

Better transport will in turn facilitate a number of community programs, including:

• a Farm and Rural Skills Development Program for CDEP participants to be provided by Bathurst Local Aboriginal Land Council together with Bathurst TAFE, Blayney Shire Council and local farmers
• a Family Violence Awareness and Prevention Program for community members.

An Aboriginal Day will also be held to help build stronger families through community activities.

The community are establishing a working group to oversee implementation of the SRA. They will develop a management plan for the bus, and provide volunteers to drive it. The community are also providing facilitators for family-violence awareness training. The local land council is allowing use of its premises free of charge to expand men’s and women’s health services.

Community members will do farm skills training through CDEP, use the bus to access services, participate in the family violence training and support community activities such as the Aboriginal Day.

The Australian Government is funding the bus, the venue and catering costs for the family violence awareness training.

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Key Facts

Regional city 200 km W of Sydney

Population:

Approximately 30,000, of whom around 1000 are Indigenous

Focus of the SRA:

Access to services

What the SRA provides:

12-seater bus; family violence awareness

ICC:

Wagga Wagga

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