Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place (Which Way Together)

What is Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place?

Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place provides Koori men, on a Community Correction Order, with an important opportunity to learn new skills, reconnect with, or further strengthen, their culture and participate in programs and activities to help them address their offending behaviour. It was officially opened in September 2008.

Participation in the program is voluntary and involves living at Wulgunggo Ngalu, in Gippsland, for between three to six months.

There are three program areas in which each resident must participate:

• Community Correction Order
• education component, which also involves living skills
• cultural component, which strengthens their cultural identity.

Wulgunggo Ngalu, in the Gunai Kurnai language, means ‘which way together’.

It is a statewide, culturally appropriate residential diversion program for up to 18 Koori adult males at any one time who have been sentenced by the court to a Community Correction Order. It provides an environment that is relevant and responsive to the needs of Aboriginal men.

Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place is a key initiative of the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement, a partnership agreement between the Victorian State Government and the Koori community established in response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Address:
Moolianga Road, Won Wron VIC, Australia