Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation is a not-for-profit Aboriginal community controlled organisation.
It was established to help restore and reconstruct the identity, dignity and integrity of Aboriginal men who were forcibly removed from their families and put into the Kinchela Boys Home, and also to address the intergenerational trauma that adversely impacts on the lives of the men’s families and descendants.
To improve the social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing of the KBH survivors and their families in a meaningful way.
This takes a strength-based focus on persistent grief, trauma and intergenerational trauma as experienced by each KBH survivor and his family. KBHAC is committed to empowering, positive, healthy peer support models that enable greater social inclusion in community life. These models address the rebuilding and strengthening of identity and family structures.
To encourage and support Aboriginal men, their families and communities in developing sustainable healing programs.
Programs that address the legacy of physical, sexual, psychological and cultural abuse in the Kinchela Boys Home, including intergenerational impacts.
To encourage and empower positive, healthy peer support models that allow KBHAC members and other Aboriginal community members to experience greater social inclusion in community life.
The members, board and staff of KBHAC are committed to upholding and promoting our values.
These values are embedded in our practice, our interactions with one another and in the way we engage and work with community, our partners and stakeholders.
We are open, honest, accountable and transparent and acknowledge that culture is at the centre of all that we do.
This is at the core of all our relationships with members, community, partners and wider society.
We actively create opportunities for community engagement with KBHAC’s activities and priorities. We listen to our members and the communities we work with and value their input.
We are committed to working in mutually beneficial and enriching partnerships with our community, our partners and our stakeholders.
We create environments where people feel valued and which emphasise hope, healing, safety (cultural, physical, psychological, and social), choice, collaboration, trustworthiness and empowerment. We uphold dignity for all our members and are knowledgeable of and sensitive to trauma and intergenerational trauma related issues.
We acknowledge and respect that each KBH Survivor has his own experience of Kinchela Boys Home.
We will listen and respect our elders, our partners, our sisters, our brothers, our staff, and respect our country and each other.
Our Board
Elders Council
Our Team
We offer a flexible, supportive and friendly work environment and attractive remuneration packages, including salary packaging options.
If you're interested in working with us, drop us an email at:
recruitment@kbhac.org.au
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Winner of the Australian Evaluation Society’s Awards for Excellence in Evaluation for Enhancing the Social Good, for our work with ARTD Consultants on KBHAC's Practice Framework
KBHAC ran a pilot in the Macleay Valley which demonstrated how the Mobile Education Centre (MEC) provides a unique and safe space for students and community members to talk with the Uncles about their experiences in KBH and provide a broader understanding of the ongoing impacts of the Stolen Generations. The sharing of the Uncles’ lived experiences and stories is impactful beyond words.
The Mobile Education Centre was built in an effort to promote learning surrounding the Stolen Generation and Kichela Boys Home.
The NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, The Hon. Don Harwin, announces the awarding of a NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Grant to KBHAC to prepare an Interpretation Plan for the KBH Site.
Unlocking the Past to Free the Future: Kinchela Boys Home – A Conservation Management Plan wins 2017 NSW National Trust Heritage Award for Research and Investigation/Analysis.
The Missing Second Gate With The Word 'Kinchela' Was Found By KBH Survivor Uncle Richard Campbell, No. 28. To Mark The 20th Anniversary Of The Bringing Them Home Report, A Candle Light Vigil Is Held At Central Station, Platform 1.
In July, The NSW State Library Announced It Would Be Working With KBHAC On One Of Its Three Indigenous Focused Commissioning Projects In 2016/2017.
With Funding From The Heritage Council Of NSW, KBHAC Undertakes A Conservation Management Plan Of The Former Kinchela Boys Home Site.
90th Anniversary Commemoration Of The Opening Of KBH Is Held On Site, Honouring The Memory Of All The Aboriginal Children Who Were Taken From Their Families And Kept At This Place.
KBH Gate Handover Ceremony In Kempsey.
KBHAC Successfully Applied For Funding From The Healing Foundation.
Hope Street Urban Compassion Agreed To Act As Auspice Body For KBHAC With The Aim Of Supporting KBHAC’s Development As An Autonomous And Sustainable Organisation.
Historic Motion Passed By The City Of Sydney In Support Of The KBHB Men And KBHAC. Strategic Plan Launch, 27 October, Redfern Community Centre.
Kinchela Boys' Home Aboriginal Corporation Strategic Plan: Bringing Them Home, Finished January 2008. This Document Is A Comprehensive Statement Of 'Where This Group Has Come From, Where They Are Now And Where They Want To Head'.
Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation Partners With Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, The School Of Public And Community Medicine, University Of New South Wales.
Kinchela Boys Home State Dinner, NSW Parliament House March 6, 2003
Journey Home To Kinchela
'Y Project' The First KBHAC Activities Were Held With Healing Workshops In Wreck Bay And Picton, NSW.
KBHAC would like to acknowledge public, private and government organisations who support our work.
We are proud to partner with them and are grateful for their support in helping us undertake our work. Thank you.
