NAVIGATION

NAVIGATION

AUST | NJP | WEBINAR | Alternative First Responders Symposium 2025 | Thursday 16 October 2025 | 9.30am-5pm AEDT

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Join us online for a gathering of local and international changemakers redefining the first response beyond police. 

This online national symposium will showcase real-world models and bold policy solutions – exploring not only what is possible but what is already working on the ground.

Key Notes Speakers
  • Alexander Heaton, The Policing Project, NYU. Alexander spent the last three years as the Director of Reimagining Public Safety at the Policing Project at the NYU School of Law, where he launched a national campaign to divert 12 million calls annually from police to alternate responses by 2030, designed and implemented the nation’s first complete crisis response ecosystem in the City of Minneapolis, and served as a subject matter expert on non-police response for governments around the world.
  • Gina M. Nagano, House of Wolf, Turtle Island. A Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation Citizen of the Wolf Clan from Dawson City, Yukon, and currently resides in Whitehorse, Canada. She is the President and CEO of House of Wolf & Associates Inc. and First Peoples Coffee, and the President and Co-owner of Tr’ochëk Energy Inc. An entrepreneur at heart, Gina is deeply committed to community economic development and Indigenous self-determination.

ARTS AND POLICY COMPETITION | Starting with care – following through with courage | Entries Open

Across the country, we’re having important conversations about how we build alternative first responses from police, one that prioritises care, wellbeing, and community. We are calling on our supporters to be courageous and put forward their best visionary ideas for change. Prizes to be announced!

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  • Where: Online event is held via Zoom. Details to access will be emailed to ticket holders the week before. Please note for this event 1 ticket grants access for 1 person.
  • Cost: Varies
  • Bookings: online via Humanitix

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National Justice Project (NJP)
Address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007
Tel: +61 2 9514 4440

We acknowledge that we live and work on the lands of First Nations Peoples, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Our Sydney office is located on the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, whose sovereignty was never ceded. This land always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.