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Indigenous Business Unit

PCYC Queensland has been committed to the development and delivery of diverse, quality developmental programs and community support services for the indigenous communities since 1998, when the Yarrabah PCYC Community Centre was established.

An innovative, multi-agency approach towards building community capacity and self-determination for children and young people, this project was the catalyst for the subsequent development of the Mornington Island PCYC branch in 2003 and Yarrabah and Palm Island PCYC branch in 2004.

The Yarrabah Community Centre was a spring-board for the development of the C.A.P.E Program (Community Activity Programs Through Education) initiated in the Wujal Wujal Community in 2004. Subsequent program sites have been established in Napranum and Hopevale.

The PCYC Queensland Indigenous Business Unit was established in July, 2007 in direct response to the increasing demand for PCYC support within Indigenous Communities across the State. This unit is the union of two separate Indigenous operational models and the specialist staff who play key roles in these operations.

The Indigenous Business Unit has established itself as an instrument to build capacity within the Indigenous Communities in which we operate through a close working partnership with community, government/non-government agencies and the corporate sector. PCYC actively advocates on behalf of these communities and negotiates required funding to support the establishment and sustainability of identified facilities, programs/activities and support services.

The Indigenous Business Unit has established procedures around the brokerage of funding from philanthropic, state and Commonwealth government sources which allows indigenous community members, groups and agencies the capacity to apply for and manage funding that ordinarily would not be accessible.

The overall philosophy of the PCYC Queensland Indigenous Business Unit is to develop a social development coordination platform to support Queensland PCYC and other external and internal organisations to achieve their desired outcomes.