SAACCON and Coalition of Peaks
The Coalition of Peaks is a group of 50 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled peak bodies who represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in all areas important to our lives. These areas include health, legal aid, education, land and water rights, disability support, media and family violence. There are peaks at a national level and peaks who work in different States and Territories.
South Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation Network (SAACCON) is a peak organisation representing South Australia at the Coalition of Peaks. Auspiced by Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, it is a network of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations in SA and has been established to provide advice, recommendations and guidance to the Coalition of Peaks, and the South Australian, Commonwealth and Local Governments on the Refresh of Closing the Gap 2019-2029.
Targets under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap
Priority Reform 1
- Developing and strengthening structures so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people share in decision making with governments on Closing the Gap
Priority Reform 2
- Building formal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled service sectors to deliver closing the gap services
Priority Reform 3
- Ensuring mainstream government agencies and institutions that deliver services and programs to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people undertake systemic and structural transformation to contribute to Closing the Gap.
Priority Reform 4
- Ensuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have access to, and the capability to use, locally relevant data and information to monitor the implementation of the Priority Reforms, the closing the gap targets, and drive their own development.