This unit describes the skills required to support the community, respect cultural requirements and support offenders within Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities.This unit applies to those working within Aboriginal or Torres Strait communities to provide support to offenders to achieve their objectives. Communities:will include those belonging to a specific location, language or social relationshipmay be traditional, missionbased or may exist within a wider general community and be rural, remote or urbanwill vary in size significantly and may be no bigger than a family or a group sharing a common culture within an institutionwill have varied structures and management, from selfcontained and autonomous to an association of interests within the total communityThe skills and knowledge described in this unit must be applied within the legislative, regulatory and policy environment in which they are carried out. Organisational policies and procedures must be consulted and adhered to, particularly those related to working with Aboriginal or Torres Strait offenders and communities.Those undertaking this unit normally work autonomously using support from a range of established resources. This role involves complex task organisation and analysis involving extrapolating, inferring, reflecting and abstracting processes.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to unit at the time of publication.