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Cultural Capability Facilitator, Anglicare Southern Queensland

Olivene Yasso

About Olivene -

Olivene Yasso is a Yiman woman and the Cultural Capability Facilitator at Anglicare Southern Queensland. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Indigenous Community Management and Development) with Honours from Curtin University, with an interest in Cultural Capability Development and Cultural Match to Governance.

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Reflections

Articles by Olivene

Q&A with Anglicare SQ Cultural Capability Facilitator and Yiman woman, Olly Yasso

Meet Olly Yasso and find out what she has to say about Reconciliation and NAIDOC Week, what is was like to grow up on the Don River in North Queensland, and about her faith journey, where she does her best thinking and the highlights of her Anglicare Southern Queensland role so far

Week of Prayer for Reconciliation and National Reconciliation Week

Wakka Wakka man The Rev’d Canon Bruce Boase, Yiman woman Olivene Yasso and Quandamooka and Bundjalung woman Aunty Sandra King OAM share their thoughts on the forthcoming Week of Prayer for Reconciliation and National Reconciliation Week, which are held between 27 May and 3 June annually, marking two significant milestones in the Reconciliation journey

Acknowledgement of Country card artwork by Lane Brookes, Manandanji Nation who works in partnership with Anglicare’s Children & Families Team, Roma

New Anglicare SQ cards further Reconciliation journey

Anglicare SQ has introduced ‘Acknowledgment of Country’ cards to honour the people of the world’s longest continuously living cultures

Anglicare’s Reconciling Histories project

As part of our series of stories on RAP implementation, Leanne Wood and Olivene Yasso share about Anglicare Southern Queensland’s Reconciling Histories project, including how it was born and what stories the project is documenting