Cultural Triage
Cultural Triage is Maburra Collective’s unique approach to assessing and responding to community needs through a cultural, healing-informed lens. Unlike clinical triage, which focuses only on immediate risk or crisis, Cultural Triage recognises that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience interconnected layers of trauma, disadvantage, and systemic barriers.
At its core, Cultural Triage is about:
- Listening deeply – creating safe spaces for women, families, and communities to share their stories.
- Understanding context – acknowledging cultural identity, community connections, and the impacts of inter-generational trauma.
- Prioritising healing – identifying immediate cultural, emotional, and practical supports that restore dignity, safety, and connection.
- Linking to supports – making warm referrals to services when needed, while walking alongside individuals to ensure their needs are met in a culturally safe way.
This approach allows Maburra to respond quickly and compassionately, while ensuring that supports are not just crisis-driven but embedded in culture, community voice, and healing pathways.
Cultural Triage ensures every decision we make is guided by respect, cultural integrity, and a commitment to creating safe, strong, and connected futures.
At Maburra, we are dedicated to providing our clients with the highest level of business and management consulting services. We strive to help our clients achieve their goals and reach their full potential.
Our Acts of Kindness
Our Acts of Kindness
Our Acts of Kindness
The Acts of Kindness Program is Maburra's benevolent arm, created to provide immediate, compassionate support for women, families, and communities in times of need.
Grounded in cultural integrity, healing, and community care, the program offers practical assistance such as emergency care packs, food and grocery gift cards, whitegoods and
The Acts of Kindness Program is Maburra's benevolent arm, created to provide immediate, compassionate support for women, families, and communities in times of need.
Grounded in cultural integrity, healing, and community care, the program offers practical assistance such as emergency care packs, food and grocery gift cards, whitegoods and household essentials, and small brokerage support for urgent needs.
It also provides resources that strengthen safety, connection, and well-being, including mobile phones for women at risk and culturally safe healing items.
While Maburra works toward long-term systemic change, Acts of Kindness ensures that families have the safety, dignity, and stability they need in the critical moments that matter most.
Our Supports
Our Acts of Kindness
Our Acts of Kindness
Maburra works alongside community networks to provide healing-informed, culturally safe supports.
While we are not a referral or case management service, we complement existing services through warm referrals, intensive engagement, and advocacy.
Examples of our supports include:
DFV: Healing programs, safety planning workshops, warm referra
Maburra works alongside community networks to provide healing-informed, culturally safe supports.
While we are not a referral or case management service, we complement existing services through warm referrals, intensive engagement, and advocacy.
Examples of our supports include:
DFV: Healing programs, safety planning workshops, warm referrals to refuges, legal aid, and specialist services.
Healing: Yarning circles, cultural workshops, trauma counselling referrals, and cultural healing supports.
Child, Youth & Family: Parenting workshops, youth leadership programs, and warm referrals to intensive family support.
Justice Reform: Restorative justice circles, women’s healing programs, and connections to legal and reintegration supports.
Homelessness: Emergency care packs, brokerage support, and warm referrals to housing and tenancy services.
Well-being: Cultural activities, healing resources, and referrals to health and mental health supports.
Our supports are co-designed with community and shaped by lived experience, ensuring women, families, and communities have the supports they need to heal, grow, and thrive.
Our Services
Our Acts of Kindness
Our Services
Maburra Collective is a First Nations-led NFP / For Purpose Charity committed to healing, advocacy, and systemic change. We are not a referral agency or case management service. Instead, our services, supports, and programs are designed to complement existing community networks, filling critical gaps while strengthening the cultural, heal
Maburra Collective is a First Nations-led NFP / For Purpose Charity committed to healing, advocacy, and systemic change. We are not a referral agency or case management service. Instead, our services, supports, and programs are designed to complement existing community networks, filling critical gaps while strengthening the cultural, healing, and advocacy landscape for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, families, and communities.
Our approach is grounded in intensive engagement in program participation, service supports and delivery, recognising that real change comes from walking alongside women and communities in ways that are culturally safe, trauma-aware, and healing-informed. Through our Service Model of Care, we embed healing and cultural integrity into every program, ensuring that supports are not just responsive to immediate needs but contribute to long-term, systemic transformation.
Our services focus on:
Domestic and Family Violence education and advocacy – raising awareness, amplifying women’s voices, and driving change.
Healing and well being programs – creating safe spaces for cultural connection, resilience, and recovery from trauma.
Youth programs and restorative justice – building respectful relationships, accountability, and alternatives to harmful justice pathways.
Women’s restorative justice and healing programs – supporting women impacted by the justice system to reconnect with culture, family, and future opportunities.
Community engagement and advocacy – yarning circles, workshops, and campaigns that influence policy, challenge systemic barriers, and create pathways for reform.
Acts of Kindness – benevolent support that responds with compassion to urgent needs, from care packs to food relief, helping families find safety and stability in times of crisis.
Every initiative is co-designed with community, shaped by lived experience, and aligned with our vision: Creating Change for Our Women – Our Way. By working alongside, rather than replacing, established services, Maburra ensures that healing, advocacy, and systemic reform remain at the centre of community-led solutions.
Our Programs
Our Acts of Kindness
Our Services
Our Programs focus on the following:
Domestic and Family Violence education and advocacy – raising awareness, amplifying women’s voices, and driving change.
Healing and well-being programs – creating safe spaces for cultural connection, resilience, and recovery from trauma.
Youth programs and restorative justice – building respectful r
Our Programs focus on the following:
Domestic and Family Violence education and advocacy – raising awareness, amplifying women’s voices, and driving change.
Healing and well-being programs – creating safe spaces for cultural connection, resilience, and recovery from trauma.
Youth programs and restorative justice – building respectful relationships, accountability, and alternatives to harmful justice pathways.
Women’s restorative justice and healing programs – supporting women impacted by the justice system to reconnect with culture, family, and future opportunities.
Community engagement and advocacy, yarning circles, workshops, and campaigns that influence policy, challenge systemic barriers, and create pathways for reform.
Acts of Kindness – benevolent support that responds with compassion to urgent needs, from care packs to food relief, helping families find safety and stability in times of crisis.
Every initiative is co-designed with community, shaped by lived experience, and aligned with our vision: Creating Change for Our Women – Our Way.
By working alongside, rather than replacing, established services, Maburra ensures that healing, advocacy, and systemic reform remain at the centre of community-led solutions.