Our Pilot Partners
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JUTE Theatre Company is a dynamic, award-winning, nationally regarded new work theatre company, sitting at the forefront of industry practice and consistently seeking new boundaries to explore in theatre practice.
Drawing on over three decades of industry experience, JUTE is a crucible in which new stories and perspectives are forged that inspire our communities and allow us all to reimagine ourselves through powerful shared theatre experiences. JUTE centres regional voices to examine the marginal, the unexplored, the unforeseen, to create stories that impact us deeply and change our world. We do this through a wide range of inclusive programs of new work development, productions and touring, with residencies, training, mentorship and community outreach.
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The Racial Dignity framework aligns with the Ubuntu Theatre project’s mission to holistically empower migrant youth of African descent through a creative and culturally sensitive method.
Theatre enables creative expression, skill development, and community engagement, while the racial dignity framework ensures human dignity, cultural safety, and addresses social and economic disadvantages faced by this racialised minority. This synergy will enhance self-esteem, identity, foster resilience, and community cohesion, promoting a positive sense of identity among African youth in Australia.
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Respect Victoria is the dedicated organisation for the prevention of family violence and violence against women in Victoria. Our vision is a Victorian community where all people are safe, equal and respected, and live free from family violence and violence against women.
RV is committed to stopping violence from occurring in the first place, by changing the conditions that drive it. We do this by leading and supporting evidence-informed primary prevention across Victoria, and act as a catalyst for transformational social change -
Respect Victoria sees the Racial dignity framework as a tool that can support our organisation to embrace the concepts of ‘dignified masculinities’ in our communications on preventing gendered violence. By engaging in the pilot, we hope to learn how the framework integrates the concepts of dignity, respect and equality. WE want to learn more about how to engage men through a lens of dignity, using empathy, rather than shame. The framework will help us think in practical ways about the intersection of racism and gendered violence, and how we can engage men authentically while still affirming the lived experiences of women and gender diverse people in a patriarchy.
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Our Race Community is the leading ethical storytelling organisation in Australia, working with communities and progressive organisations to ensure communities are able to make informed decisions on the creative control and ownership of their stories. We work collaboratively to challenge exploitative and extractionary community engagement and storytelling practices, informed by our Transformational Ethical Story Telling (T.E.S.T) framework.
OUR Race Community vision is Our vision is that 1) All Story Holders experience engaging, positive and inclusive spaces that allow them to be the creators, curators and owners of their Stories, which includes but is not limited to holistic consent processes. 2) Every Story Holder who needs support regarding the exploitation of their Story, intentional or not, receives free professional and community support to meet their needs. 3) Every organisation in the country that works with Story Holders has access to safe, ethical community engagement Story Telling programs and resources, which result in safe, ethical Story Telling being the norm, not the exception. 4) Community organisations lead the way by creating a future where lived experience is valued as expertise within the organisation and within the communities they serve.
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Our Race sees the Racial Dignity Framework as supporting the organisation in reviewing their T.E.S.T. framework, the events, programs and projects they work on. These include:
1) Story Holder and Story Caretaker workshops- Our Race’s workshops are always bespoke and ever-changing, and therefore, what we learn from the Racial Dignity framework will add to our content, facilitation and communication.
2) Advocacy work- At any given time, our Race team works on a number of advocacy pieces to support anti-racism and ethical storytelling policies, processes, and practices. The racial dignity framework could further support how we do this.
3) Events we run and collaborate on-Our Race runs a number of events and support others with their events. We use our T.E.S.T. framework to support this, and by also aligning these to the Racial Dignity framework, we can further enhance the way we run events.
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Southern Cross University’s Faculty of Education is a world-leading, welcoming and just place of impactful research, teaching and learning, that inspires and changes lives.
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SCU's interest in piloting the Framework was to develop racial and cultural literacy, informing teaching and research practices to accommodate their increasingly diverse student cohort from diverse cultures. The pilot was to upskill academic and professional staff to embedd a pedegogy of dignity in supporting students experiences of learning.
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The Australian Childhood Foundation is Australia’s largest charity whose mission is that all children are safe from the trauma of abuse, violence, and neglect
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ACF interest was to pilot the Racial Dignity Framework to support the organisational efforts in developing the Foundation's overarching Diversity, Inclusion and Cultural Safety Framework to guide their vision and practices.
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Pola Practice envisions a world where high-quality mental health and well-being support is accessible to all. POLA believes that when support is accessible to the most marginalised, it is accessible for all. Pola Practice contributes to this vision by being a practice where our highly competent practitioners and clients can bring their whole selves through our doors. It aimx to be a safe space for individual and collective healing. POLA’s goal is to create positive social change through exceptional clinical, community, and consultation services- as well as have a structural impact and legacy that lasts beyond our time.
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Pola Practice aims to prioritise the experiences of marginalised communities and to ensure that well-being services are reflective of their needs and experiences. This is not limited to clients accessing mental health care but also our clinicians who come from professionally and intersectional diverse backgrounds. By partnering on this pilot, we wish to utilise this framework as a means of broadening our knowledge and resources. We wish to better understand our clients and our own experiences of race, racism and dignity and hope that our participation makes us better clinicians and a better service.
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Australia’s largest charity whose mission is that all children are safe from the trauma of abuse, violence, and neglect
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Piloting the Racial Dignity Framework would support Welcoming Australia's effort in advancing their Welcomign Universities, Welcoming Clubs and Welcoming Cities initiaitves which are meant to upskill institutions cultures of belonging.