Gunawirra sees our role as helping young Aboriginal parents to break the trans-generational cycle of violence and abuse: Prevention starts during pregnancy; Early Intervention, with their infants and preschool children.

Our vision is to ensure our Aboriginal children and their parents are nurtured and provided with emotional support to empower them to assume their full and rightful place in Australian Society.

Our continuous work is the prevention of violence or violation of each Aboriginal’s personhood. This stands at the centre of all our work. We hope as a result of our early intervention, loss of self esteem will be replaced by increasing confidence; instead of serious disorders we will have increased understanding and self care; that suicide ideation will be replaced by a pride in self.

It is so much harder to treat and heal, than it is to prevent. We all know now that prevention is the answer. United, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal professionals in Gunawirra will work for this goal.

Gunawirra’s vision is to provide Aboriginal parents and their children (both separately and together) with effective, self-sustaining tools that deliver new and healthier ways of dealing not only with their own trauma, but assuring they do not traumatise their children or leave them open to trauma through physical abuse and domestic violence.

The consultative process with the young mothers who are our focus is central to all our work.