Annual Reports

The 2024-25 VACCA Annual Report theme shares VACCA’s reform journey while challenging existing narratives around Aboriginal child and family welfare. VACCA’s strength lies in our connection to the communities we work alongside. Our work is...

Aboriginal children are connected to their community, culture and Country before they are born. These connections to family and ancestors, cultural practices and lore strengthen their identities and help to protect and heal. VACCA’s strength lies in...

Storytelling has always been an essential part of Aboriginal culture. Through language, song, dance, and art we have passed on our history and stories of Country, creation, and tradition to future generations. Technology has introduced new possibilities...

Our Possum-skin cloak: a celebration of VACCA’s growth, development, and impact. Possum-skin cloaks have been worn by Aboriginal people in Victoria for thousands of years as a source of warmth and protection from harsh conditions. Worn from a young...

Our theme, Standing Strong: Our People, Our Community, Our Story, speaks to the continued impact and challenges faced by VACCA and the Victorian Aboriginal communities in this second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and to our collective successes, as we...

It has been a challenging year. In late 2019, regional Victoria was impacted by devastating bushfires, and by March of 2020 the entire country was on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As an organisation, we have remained focused and committed to our...

Language is invaluable as a way to express our identity and connection to our culture, who we are and where we come from. Language contributes to the empowerment, wellbeing and strengthening of our communities. Speaking in language is a way for us to...

"I want to pay tribute to our staff this year again. Our Aboriginal staff especially keep the organisation culturally connected and relevant to our community as well as playing a big role in keeping all our staff culturally informed. All our staff...

Wominjeka and welcome to the fortieth annual report of the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency. It will give you an idea of the wonderful things we have been doing in the last year and more. It also contains the wisdom of our Elders who have been part...

As we reach the end of VACCA’s 39th year, we reflect on what we have achieved, which has strengthened the connection between our driving principal of self-determination and our efforts. Self-determination means we, who never ceded our sovereignty,...

Healing together is what VACCA is about - workers and our clients - community members - are all healed through our work at VACCA because we all have our issues and difficulties we are living with. We all need a helping hand and support at various times in...

The theme of this year’s annual report is families. We often overlook the fact that our community is made up of diverse types of families including single parent families, same sex parent families and multicultural families. Within this diversity we...

VACCA’s Annual Report 2012-13 explores the subject of children’s rights. Many of us might immediately think of basic human rights, such as the right to be free from harm or the right to food and shelter. While these will remain essential to...

“Our key highlights for 2012 shows how VACCA straddles two worlds - our duty of care towards children in our care including services to Aboriginal families; and how we respond to need in a culturally appropriate and sensitive way in a rapidly...

Looking at VACCA today, you might find it hard to imagine our small grass-roots community beginnings 35 years ago in 1976. Since then, our limited program of foster care services has grown from the ground up, developing a body of knowledge along the way...