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Welcome to Cultural Cohesion
Cultural Cohesion is a 100% Aboriginal women owned organisation that specialises in culturally grounded services across the health and community service sectors.
Based in the Northern Territory, we offer Cultural Supervision and consultation to individuals and organisations across Australia.
Our mission is to contribute to a sustainable, culturally safe and trauma-sensitive workforce to enhance the quality of life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Connecting with both First Nations and non-First Nations workers in-person and online, we foreground culture to affirm strengths, implement skills and empower people.
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Our Cultural Supervisor
Co-Founder: Estella Huppatz
A proud Western Arrernte woman, Estella comes from a large Aboriginal family in Alice Springs in the Central Western Desert region. Her family are the Traditional Custodians for the award-winning Standley Chasm, and caretakers for homelands along the West MacDonnell ranges.
As our Cultural Supervisor, Estella brings 39-years of expansive experience in the community service sector within the unique Northern Territory landscape, spanning child protection, youth justice, alcohol and other drugs, housing, economic services, family and domestic violence and Harmful Sexual Behaviour. Estella's approach is grounded in relationship, connection, focusing on strengths and an unwavering passion for empowering Mob.
Operations Manager
Co-Founder: Ranjika Huppatz-Daley
Ranjika is a proud descendent of the Western Arrernte people of the Central Western Desert through her mother, and the Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr people of the Boorimbah region of Northern NSW through her father. Born and raised in the Top End, she is very gratefully rooted in the Northern Territory.
With experience across specialist behavioural intervention, executive operations, health research and business, Ranjika brings a balanced and assiduous approach to Cultural Cohesion. She is passionate about First Nations-led approaches to health and community services, and dedicated to amplifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.
Cultural Cohesion acknowledges that this Country is Aboriginal land, and home to the oldest continuing culture on Earth. We recognise and pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, communities and Elders across the nation.
We thank the Traditional Custodians of Garramilla, the Larrakia people. We acknowledge their spiritual, physical, and cultural connection to these lands and waters in which we live.
We are deeply grateful to our Old People, Elders and families. We thank them for their wisdom that has been passed on, and the teachings that continue through our work. We carry their stories, knowledge and culture with great privilege, care and respect.
This always has been, and always will be Aboriginal land.