Domestic and sexual violence subject matter expert, Yamatji woman Kyalie Moore is travelling across Australia to help strengthen culturally safe responses to family, domestic and sexual violence.
Through Boomerang Consultancy, Ms Moore is moving from community to community to deliver training, build partnerships and support services working with victim survivors, families and men who use violence.
Ms Moore is a counsellor, family therapist and men's behaviour change program practitioner, trainer and supervisor with almost two decades of experience across community and custodial settings.
Her work has included supervising programs, training frontline workers and supporting victim survivors across Western Australia.
Ms Moore said the national journey was about helping services build safer responses on the ground.
"I'm going community to community," Ms Moore said. "Supporting services to strengthen their response to FDSV, working with men, and making sure families are safer."
Ms Moore's work is informed by professional training, cultural knowledge and lived experience.
She grew up in Carnarvon and experienced sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators before the age of 15.
At an International Women's Day gathering in Carnarvon, she shared her story publicly for the first time.
Ms Moore said the moment showed the importance of community support.
"I hold space for people all the time, but in that moment, Carnarvon held space for me," she said.
Her campaign, Stamp It Out, is focused on supporting communities to take collective action against family, domestic and sexual violence.
Ms Moore said the name was connected to culture.
"In our culture, we stamp," Ms Moore said. "We stamp when we tell stories.
"We stamp when we call in the rain. It's collective."
She said family violence responses in Aboriginal communities needed to be grounded in culture and led by local people.
"If we want to stop family violence in our communities, we need to speak the language of our people," Ms Moore said.
Ms Moore is an accredited trainer in the internationally recognised Safe & Together Model and delivers CORE Training using First Nations strategies that centre culture, accountability and family safety.
The four-day certified program supports frontline workers to better identify the impact of violence on children and family functioning, assess perpetrator behaviour patterns, partner with adult survivors and intervene with men who use violence.
The training also covers intersections with substance use and mental health.
Participants use real case work, role play and structured tools including Mapping Perpetrators' Patterns and Multiple Pathways to Harm to build skills they can apply in their work.
For people who complete the program, it can contribute towards becoming a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer.
Ms Moore has also co-designed the Southern Cross Model with Aboriginal men to support culturally safe engagement with men who use violence.
She is also developing programs which help Aboriginal organisations lead this work themselves.
Ms Moore's work has already taken her through Western Australia, including Halls Creek, Derby, Carnarvon and Kununurra.
She is now travelling through the Northern Territory and into Queensland.
Aboriginal Medical Services and community organisations are invited to host training, build local capacity and strengthen responses to family violence in culturally grounded and community-led ways.
Family, domestic and sexual violence continues to affect Aboriginal communities at disproportionate rates.
"I'm starting to feel this sense of alignment," Ms Moore said.
Organisations and services interested in connecting with Ms Moore can do so through the Boomerang on the Road website.
Original reporting by Tom Hearn.
