WHO WE ARE
Video: Tiraapendi Wodli - community celebration, October 2023
Tiraapendi Wodli Background
In March 2018, a representative and independent Port Adelaide Aboriginal Leadership Group comprising 9 independently elected members came together as a group for the first time to start a visioning process to identify opportunities for improving the safety, health and lives of Aboriginal families and their children and young people, using a justice reinvestment approach.
This group is now known as Tiraapendi Wodli, meaning ‘protecting home’ in Kaurna language.
In December 2018, released the inaugural Tiraapendi Wodli Action Plan 2019-21 which focused on 4 key populations including: a) primary school aged children; b) young people; c) men and d) families accessing services.
The Tiraapendi Wodli Ways of Working 2021 and Tiraapendi Wodli Theory of Change (2023) demonstrates TW’s ways of working including supports and services provided to community members at the TW Hub.
Australian Red Cross provides all backbone coordination functions (including project, contracts and financial management and human resources functions). Funding for Tiraapendi Wodli operations and programs is currently provided by the SA Government Department of Human Services and Department of Correctional Services, the Wyatt Charitable Trust and the Alcohol and Drug Foundation.
In 2024, the new Tiraapendi Wodli Leadership Group commenced a process to expand priorities and actions including a pathway to independent governance as an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO).
In addition, Tiraapendi Wodli and Red Cross have partnered with the Paul Ramsay Foundation to implement the Tiraapendi Wodli Understanding Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (UMEL) project.
Since early 2024, a team of Tiraapendi Wodli community evaluators have been working with Assoc Professors Alwin Chong and Fiona Arney and Dr Martine Hawkes to implement the evaluation including community discussions and data collection.
The aim of the project is to:
build the evidence-base for the successes of the project,
establish an Aboriginal data ecosystem and sovereignty approach for evaluative practice and local decision-making, and
build the capacity of the Aboriginal leadership group towards Tiraapendi Wodli independence.
Tiraapendi Wodli Independence
On 4th April, 2025, Tiraapendi Wodli was formally registered as Tiraapendi Wodli Ltd.
Over the coming 12 months, Tiraapendi Wodli will be working through a process to establish
all independent business and operational systems.
Tiraapendi Wodli Directors
Edward Martin - Director ID: 036506068326909
Neva Wilson - Director ID: 036184803536273
Sharon Karpany - Director ID: 036616570897861
Samantha Jackson - Public Officer
For all enquiries contact:
Deb Moyle, Tiraapendi Wodli Executive Officer: M: 0410 228 451 / E: demoyle@redcross.org.au