Programs & initiatives

• Youth Employment Program

  The Youth Employment Program is a program for year 12 students to help them into employment or further study upon completion of high school.

• Enterprise development

  The Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships provides a range of services to help strengthen and grow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses in Queensland.

• Cape York Peninsula Tenure Resolution Program

  The Cape York Peninsula Tenure Resolution Program returns ownership and management of identified lands on Cape York Peninsula to local Aboriginal people, while ensuring that outstanding environmental values are protected in national parks and nature refuges.

• Family Responsibilities Commission

  Quarterly and annual reports of the Family Responsibilities Commission.

• Welfare Reform

  The department has a key role in leading Queensland’s Welfare Reform program to support families and individuals to improve their lives by re-building social norms and re-establishing local authority for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people living in Welfare Reform communities.

• Community alcohol limits

  Alcohol restrictions are in place in the discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Queensland.

• Program office

  The Remote Indigenous Land and Infrastructure Program Office facilitate in the development across 16 remote, discrete Indigenous communities in Queensland.

• Domestic and Family Violence Taskforce

  The department is committed to addressing domestic and family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and is working with relevant agencies to develop a Queensland Government response to the Not Now, Not Ever: Putting an End to Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland report.

• Government Champions

  The Government Champion program provides an opportunity for Chief Executives of Queensland Government agencies to work together with identified communities towards improving life outcomes for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people, in a collaborative partnership.

• Closing the Gap

  Closing the Gap is a long-term framework that builds on the foundation of respect and unity provided by the 2008 National Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

• Preventing youth sexual violence and abuse

  Queensland Government has committed to taking positive action focused on the prevention of youth sexual violence and abuse in Queensland. This commitment is just one of many Queensland Government initiatives designed to support children and families.

• Our Way and Changing Tracks

  The Queensland Government, in partnership with Family Matters Queensland, has developed a generational strategy and first action plan to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.

• Traditional Torres Strait Islander child rearing practices

  The Queensland Government is committed to introducing new laws to recognise Torres Strait Islanders families’ continued use of traditional Torres Strait Islander child rearing practices.