Professional Social Work services 

Based in Paralowie, South Australia, Two Worlds Consultancy is an organisation providing  trauma informed, culturally based therapeutic social work services to Aboriginal children, families and communities across the State and nationally. 
Request a call back

Support Vision Statement

Discover What We Do
Two Worlds Consultancy brings restoration, growth and wholeness to Aboriginal children, individuals, families and communities. We achieve this through innovative, professional, culturally responsive practices and programs.
Two Worlds Consultancy contracts social work services to government, non-government and community organisations in South Australia and Nationally. 
aboriginal child
Women holding each other hands

Cultural and Clinical Supervision

Clinical and cultural supervision is provided across the state with Aboriginal and non Aboriginal staff in government and non government orgs. 

Therapeutic, trauma informed Professional Social Work Services 

Services are provided for children and families through reunification services, therapeutic NDIS services, and for children in care.

Corporate Training and Development & Corporate writing 

Two Worlds Consultancy deliver tailored practice based training and development and corporate writing services.

Mission Statement

Shirley Young is an Aboriginal woman descending from the Nukunu people in South Australia. She is a Social Worker and the Director of Two Worlds Consultancy and co-director of Endless Eden. 
Shirley has previously worked in various Public Service organisations over a span of 24 years in portfolios such as Health, Child Protection and Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 
For the last five years she has been running a state-wide business called Two Worlds Consultancy that contracts services to government and non-government organisations. Services include reunification, therapeutic support to children in Out of Home Care settings, providing supervision to staff in government and non-government organisations, contracting services to the NDIS sector, delivering corporate training and development packages, writing corporate documents and casual lecturing for university social work students.
Shirley currently represents a variety high level working groups that inform and address the over representation of Aboriginal children, young people and families in the child protection system to address systemic failures.

We acknowledge the historical and ongoing impacts of intergenerational trauma and the disconnection from land, kinship and culture. 

These factors have had an ongoing impact on the social determinants and over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in all tertiary services including child protection and justice systems.
  • Read More

    We seek to address the aforementioned issues through a three pronged approach

    • The provision of culturally based holistic social emotional and wellbeing practices and programs. 
    • The development and delivery of training programs that increase the cultural responsiveness of non-Aboriginal staff.
    • Advocating for access, equity, social justice and systemic change for Aboriginal people.

We would love to discuss how we can provide support to your staff and organisation

Two Worlds Consultancy run comprehensive training programs for staff, organisations and universities that support the growth of clinical and cultural practice wisdom. Please call us to discuss your training needs.