Alcohol and other drugs
Use continues alongside the program, and the service has no non-clinical step that builds insight before treatment or sanction.
Tailor the suite
Six products, one framework.
Employment services
Roadmap Planner Program
A 4–5 hour workshop, mental health informed planning process built for the employment sector. Participants map their life, barriers and next steps, and leave with a personal roadmap your staff can work from.
4–5 hour workshop Schools, corporate and sportLifeways to Leadership
Program for schools, corporate and sporting organisations. Participants build self awareness, explore values and influences, and map clear steps in a personalised Lifeways Plan.
Scheduled with your service CorrectionsTimelines
Built for corrections. Reflection, cultural healing and practical planning using Family Systems Therapy with people before and after release, engaging upstream of reoffending.
Scheduled with your service NDISNDIS Supports
Practical, person-centred support that helps NDIS participants build independence, confidence and everyday skills. Support is tailored around the participant’s goals and can include life skills, community participation, employment, life transitions and personal development.
Scheduled around individual support needs ReadinessEngagement and readiness assessment
A practical way to understand why a person is not engaging and what support they need, before compliance and activity expectations begin.
Before activity expectations begin Workforce developmentStaff capability and train the trainer
Briefings, training and mentoring that build your team’s confidence and skill engaging Indigenous clients.
Up to full train the trainer delivery ReportingReporting your funders trust
Attendance, completion and cost benefit reporting that attributes outcomes correctly and strengthens funding submissions.
Per cohortWhy this work is needed
The public record.
62%
by 2031
Closing the Gap Target 8 aims to lift the share of First Nations people aged 25–64 in employment to 62 per cent by 2031. The Productivity Commission assesses the target as not on track, and employment is among the outcome areas recorded as worsening.
National Agreement on Closing the Gap; Productivity Commission, Closing the Gap Annual Data Compilation Report, July 2025
27×
detention rate
First Nations young people were 27 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people to be in detention in 2022–23, and around 84 per cent of those in detention were unsentenced — held before a matter is decided. Target 11, a 30 per cent cut in youth detention by 2031, recorded no change from its baseline in the July 2025 data.
AIHW, Closing the Gap targets: key findings and implications, 2025; Productivity Commission, Annual Data Compilation Report, July 2025
$4.0b
a year
Alcohol use alone is estimated to cost Australian workplaces around $4.0 billion a year, with absenteeism accounting for close to 90 per cent of that cost. One in ten workers report being affected by a colleague’s drinking.
NCETA, Flinders University; Whetton et al., National Drug Research Institute; Alcohol and Drug Foundation
Who it is for
Five sectors, same framework.
Employment services
Youth justice and corrections
Family and domestic violence
Health and community
Corporate and sport
How delivery works
We lead, then you do.
Facilitators run the first sessions in full. Your staff sit in and watch the framework work with your cohort.
The tools are unpacked step by step, with the reasoning behind each one, so nothing depends on charisma.
Your staff take a session with the facilitator in the room. This is where the method transfers.
Observation and feedback against the same checklist we hold ourselves to, not a general impression.
Ongoing access to the facilitator, refreshers, and updated materials as the suite develops.
What participants say
The program made me realise what it’s like to have a dream and what it means to achieve my goals. I built friendship and family, giving me so many opportunities for my career and future. I learnt how to become an adult.
The program transformed my life in many aspects, not just footy. It helped me develop from a kid to an adult. It taught me the importance of giving my best effort with school, my health and playing rugby league.
Stepping out of my comfort zone was made easier due to the program. Understanding the importance of applying extra effort to diet, life goals and the science behind training gave me insight to my longevity in life and sporting endeavours. I left earlier than anticipated and currently work however miss the personalised side by side teaching support in life’s skills and working out the system gave me.
The program taught me to be disciplined and responsible in life. It made me aware of the importance of washing up, hanging my clothes out, mowing the lawn and food prepping. The training system covered money budgeting, making better choices, and being responsible which I was lacking at the start.
I was not expecting help to put together a plan. Was thinking you were going to ask why I have not got a job yet. The timelines made me realise how my habits effect my life and what steps I need to take.
I didn’t expect the personalised attention and assistance in figuring out my path forward. It was more than just finding a job; it was about building the future through the stickman worksheet.
The visual tools have helped me to make plans around my fortnight and daily goals. Will also start to sit around my strong support network as opposed to the ones who are bossing me around, thanks.
I never looked at it this way with the timelines and stickman. I know I have to get a job and grow up and with the tools I will start to implement my plan. Thanks for the program I look at things different.
Who we work with
Services and partners.
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Hunter Boorn
Hunter Boorn worked with FNI Education to translate its vision into a practical growth strategy, delivering a strategic plan, capability statement and organisational framework that supports scale, impact measurement, governance and future partnership.
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APM Employment
Worked with 2023–2025
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GTNT Group
Worked with 2024
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Family Services Australia
MOU signed 2026
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Five Bridges
Worked with 2024–2025
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BUSY Ability
MOU signed 2026
- AlphaBetaConnect AlphaBetaConnect Engaged in 2026 to build FNI’s monitoring and evaluation capability, so the data behind the work stands up. Also automating internal systems to streamline delivery.
- Redlands Graphics Redlands Graphics Aboriginal owned printing service FNI has used for the past thirty years.
- Riverside Graphics Riverside Graphics A thirty-year supporter. FNI’s program design and printed booklets would not be the quality they are without them.
- PLANZZ PLANZZ Represents FNI at business, corporate and government level, positioning upstream Indigenous services that complement existing programs.
- Johnson Real Estate Johnson Real Estate A long-term supporter whose own business and values have shaped FNI’s direction, and the standard it sets for staff and clients.
- Govready Govready Engaged in 2025 for a procurement assessment and action plan, mapping a realistic path into government contracting for a small business.
First Nations International is a Supply Nation registered supplier, and is Indigenous owned and women led.