Case study of the Balunu Indigenous Youth Healing Program: Strengths, Challenges and Implications for Policy and Practice

This report documents a case study of a residential healing camp program, the Balunu Indigenous Youth Healing Program, set on the Land of the Larrakia people in the Northern Territory. The Larrakia people are, and will always remain, the Traditional Owners of the Land and Sea at Talc Head. The Larrakia people are famous for the 1972 GWALWA DARAWIKI: THIS IS OUR LAND petition, which had over 1,000 signatures and inked thumbprints and was torn on its way to Buckingham Palace. On behalf of the case study team, we pay our deepest respects to Larrakia Elders past and present.