21/09/2011
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CCCA course now accredited with the Australian Orthoptic Board
We are pleased to announce that the CCCA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Course has been accredited with the Australian Orthoptic Board under Self Education Category 4.2. The Activity Reference is 4-05_1011 and completion of the course will earn members 4 CPD points.
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3/06/2011
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3 June - Mabo Day
Mabo Day marks the anniversary of the High Court of Australia’s judgement in 1992 in the Mabo case. This is a day of particular significance for Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s name is synonymous with native title rights. His story began in May 1982 when he and fellow Murray (Mer) Islanders David Passi, Sam Passi, James Rice and Celuia Salee instituted a claim in the High Court for native title to the Murray (Mer) Islands in the Torres Strait.
The claim was made against the State of Queensland, which responded by seeking to legislate to extinguish retrospectively any native title on the Islands. This was challenged in the High Court on the grounds that it was inconsistent with the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act. The High Court, in an historical judgement delivered on 3 June 1992, accepted the claim by Eddie Mabo and the other claimants that their people (the Meriam people) had occupied the Islands of Mer for hundreds of years before the arrival of the British. The High Court found that the Meriam people were ‘entitled as against the whole world to possession, occupation, use and enjoyment of lands in the Murray Islands.’ The decision overturned a legal fiction that Australia was terra nullius (a land belonging to no one) at the time of British colonisation.
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26/05/2011
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26 May ‐ National Sorry Day
National Sorry Day offers the community the opportunity to acknowledge the impact of the policies spanning more than 150 years of forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 following the 1997 HREOC report Bringing Them Home which recommended that a national day of observance be declared.
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15/04/2011
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CCCA course accredited with The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
CCCA's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Competence course is now accredited with The Pharmacy Guild of Australia as a Group 2 activity for 14.0 CPD credits. The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is authorised by the Australian Pharmacy Council to accredit providers of CPD activities for pharmacists that may be used as supporting evidence of continuing competence.
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23/02/2011
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CCCA course gains Exercise and Sport Science Australia (ESSA) accreditation.
CCCA is continuing to add depth to it's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Competence course through additional peak body accreditations. The latest accreditation comes from Exercise and Sport Science Australia (ESSA). The ESSA Continuing Education Committee certifies that this continuing education offering meets the criteria for 8 Continuing Education Points (CEPs). This accreditation is valid for 3 years.
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14/02/2011
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CCCA Course gains Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) accreditation.
CCCA's commitment to developing and providing best practice, regulated training in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Competence goes from strength to strength as its course is accredited by another peak body, the APA, for their CPD Program for 1 CPD point per hour, providing participants with a total of 8 CPD points on completion.
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11/02/2011
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CCCA Course gains further accreditation with the Chiropractor's Association of Australia (CAA).
CCCA is pleased to announce another accreditation for its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Competence Course. The course grants Association members 8 Formal Learning Activity Hours.
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10/01/2011
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CCCA Course gains accreditation with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
CCCA's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Competence Course gains accreditation with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). Social workers can now claim double CPE points for completing the course.
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21/12/2010
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Government News article - Pathways to Cultural Competence
The attached document is an article that was featured in the Government News magazine December 2010/ January 2011 issue.
It explores the pathway through which Government Departments and Agencies, as well as other organisations, can develop a clear pathway and strategy to enable them to effective train staff to achieve a culturally competent workplace.
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8/11/2010
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CCCA talks to ABC's Life Matters program about the importance of cultural competence training in the workplace
Cultural competence training aims to educate Australians to better identify and challenge their cultural assumptions, values and beliefs.
It's been in the news recently following the story of what happened to Tarren Betteridge, a young Aboriginal woman who'd missed out on a job with GenerationOne, because she was told her skin was not dark enough.
Bronwyn Lumby is the founder and director of the Centre for Cultural Competence Australia. It is the first online provider of accredited, competency based, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competence training.
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