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Woe or Wellbeing? Creating a Child Friendly Macarthur Region  Document2 Page 1 of 14 Introduction The Macarthur Region in the south west of Sydney is infamously known for its social and economic circumstances – profoundly represented by the riots in Macquarie Fields in early 2005 that played across television screens, radio stations and front pages across Australia and even elsewhere around the world. Yet the Region has many great strengths: a strong sense of community, a long and rich history – Indigenous, European, and multicultural – Australia’s largest industrial area, and a can do attitude which has delivered great innovation – such as the Macarthur Youth Commitment, Macarthur Region of Councils (MacRoc), Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Macarthur Community Forum and Austool. NAPCAN Foundation has worked with children and young people throughout 2005 to build their vision for a Child Friendly Macarthur Region – a Region which supports and enables the wellbeing of all children and young people, and ensures they grow up free from harm. The most powerful lesson from this work was that the solution determined appears remarkably simple. The vision was primarily about relationships – how we involve, support and relate with each other. The material items that the kids wanted were confronting in that they were so fundamental and it was so concerning they didn’t have them – like dinner every night. Now our shared challenge is to bring the vision into being. What follows is the story of NAPCAN’s 6 month journey to create this solution and way forward. This is a story of relationships being formed, challenges being overcome, a series of innovative workshops with children and young people – utilising ancient Aboriginal methods – all building to a decision makers forum being held with challenge of taking the kids’ visions forwards. Figure 1 Innovative Aboriginal Workshop, Airds

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