Explain how Royal Life Saving WA's REFLECT Reconciliation Action Plan aims to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Additionally, describe how their research identifies high-risk groups for drowning and how this data informs their water safety programs across Western Australia, ensuring all communities, including Indigenous peoples, are empowered.
Navigate to the 'About' section. Click on 'Find Out More: Reconciliation Action Plan'. Identify the primary aim of the REFLECT Reconciliation Action Plan regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Go back to the 'About' page. Click on 'Research and Reports'. Identify how research enables Royal Life Saving to monitor drowning and injury trends and identify high-risk groups. Synthesize the information to explain how the RAP's goals align with or are informed by the research on water safety issues across all communities.
State that the REFLECT Reconciliation Action Plan's primary aim is to develop improved relationships, respect, and opportunities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Explain that research enables Royal Life Saving to monitor drowning and injury trends to identify high-risk groups, activities, and locations affecting all Western Australian communities, and guides program development. Connect these two points by explaining that by identifying high-risk groups through research, Royal Life Saving WA can better tailor its programs and services, including those guided by the Reconciliation Action Plan, to effectively empower all communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to be safe in, on, or around water.