Kleenheat interviews Keedac

Last month Keedac was visited by the team from Kleenheat, who had provided a grant to us to help set up our Community Hub. They've produced this info piece on Keedac with a video talking to us. Have a look! https://www.kleenheat.com.au/blog/community/grants-keedac-narrogin

NAIDOC welcome event

On Monday the 4th of July 2022 Keedac held the NAIDOC opening ceremony at 29 Gordon street Narrogin, our Community Hub. We had Basil Kickett doing the opening welcome to country, we had various other services there such as SAC, SWAMS, TAFE and a presentation from Holyoake.It was a great turn out, a good crowd of people turned up, plenty of traditional food, Kangaroo stew and damper and a lot of other food. It was a great start to NAIDOC week.

Certificate 2 Community Services Narrogin

Keedac has worked with TAFE and Clontarf College to provide training courses in Narrogin and Northam. Keedac has a need for care workers who have had relevant training and achieved a Certificate in either Mental Health or Community Services. We encourage Aboriginal people in our community to attend training courses and may provide advice and assistance, with the possibility of working for us in future. From July 2022, we have worked with TAFE to provide a training course, Certificate II (2) Community Services, which will be followed up by Certificate III (3) Community Services in 2023. Certificate II is the…

Calling men in Narrogin, want to work with us?

Peer Support Worker, Male, (Aboriginal community) Location: Narrogin WAContract: Permanent, full-time or part-timeHours negotiable Based in Narrogin, 200 km south of Perth, Keedac, an Aboriginal Corporation, has a vacancy for the role of care worker, mental health, caring for Aboriginal men in and around Narrogin. You will be part of a team supporting the mental health of our community. This is a mixed team of men and women. We currently have a full complement of women in the team and are seeking more males to support our male clients in particular. You will offer mental health support under these programs…

Welcome to Keedac

Wandoo Boodja It is the mission of Keedac, the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation, to improve the lives of our Aboriginal families in Wheatbelt WA, situated between Perth and Kalgoorlie. Keedac is expanding and we aim to provide a holistic, comprehensive service, that lifts people out of poverty, provides mental health support, improves community engagement and teaches work-related skills and qualifications. When people in WA think of Aboriginal people, they think of the remote deserts of the north-west. It is easy to forget that we have large Indigenous communities here in the Wheatbelt and south of WA. Even though our Wheatbelt people are immediately…

Keedac 2022 in review

As we head into the 2022/23 Financial Year (from July 2022), we are pleased to report it’s an exciting time for Keedac! Next year we benefit from further funding grants which will enable us to open our community hub in Narrogin 5 days a week, with a host of events happening, including art painting classes and personal care and growth classes. Looking back over the past year and where Keedac is now, we’ve put a slide show together, so you can see what is happening with Keedac, the Wheatbelt WA Aboriginal Corporation. Check out our page "Keedac in 2022" for…

Community Hub

Our new Community Hub is now open at 2 Grant Street, Narrogin, where we are planning on hosting events all through the week, to improve the lives of our local community. Sadly, these plans have been slow to put in place, due to the spread of Covid through the town, but we hope this will soon become manageable so we can put a full program of events on. Interior of the Community Hub building We already host morning groups including the Men's Group and Women's Group and we are looking to add many more, including Elder's Group and activities such…

What are the Keedac services?

Keedac is a not-for-profit Aboriginal Corporation which was set up over 20 years ago with the intent of improving the lives of the 500 or so Aboriginal families in the Wheatbelt region.We are currently funded to provide:NPSM program (National Psychosocial Support Measure) with funding from WAPHA (WA Public Health Alliance)The Thrive program, a joint venture between Keedac and Wanslea, funded by the State Department of Communities, to train public housing tenants to look after their property, manage their finances and keep up to date with rental payments, so that they can keep their property as good tenants.Centrelink Agency operated by…

A big thank you to LotteryWest!

Keedac has received a grant from LotteryWest! We are so excited! On 12 July Keedac hosted Shelley Payne, MLC Agricultural Region, who presented the LotteryWest grant certificate to Vernon Bolton, Chairperson, and Leanne Kickett, CEO. The grant is for $40,000 and will be used for a program of managerial training for the Board members and senior management.The training will be provided by the Australian Institute of Management (WA). Leanne Kickett said "Keedac is setting up new services for the local Aboriginal community, including the community centre which is being renovated and will be open 5 days a week from next…

NAIDOC week

Keedac is hosting a morning tea during NAIDOC week, next Thursday morning at 10:30 am, to which everyone is welcome, so please come and join us! Location: the Keedac Community Hub, 2 Grant Street, Narrogin from 10:30 am, Thursday, 8 July, 2021. More info? Call Keedac on 08 9881 6666