Moort Bidi Mentoring Program

Psychology session focused on healing and growth

Who It’s For

The Moort Bidi Mentoring Program supports:

  • Individuals transitioning from incarceration back into community life

  • People breaking cycles of trauma, addiction, or intergenerational disadvantage

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients seeking culturally grounded support

  • Participants who feel disconnected or unsupported

  • Clients who benefit from lived-experience mentorship, empathy, and real-world accountability

What It Offers

This is not a checkbox program, it’s relational, real, and rooted in dignity.

  • 1:1 mentoring grounded in trust, safety, and shared experience

  • Culturally safe and community-connected support

  • Life coaching focused on structure, goals, and future planning

  • Emotional encouragement and motivational support, with clear boundaries

  • Peer connection to reduce isolation and build self-worth

  • Integration with therapy, NDIS, or case management supports


Program Values & Objectives

This program exists to walk beside those ready to change their story, no matter how it began. We are committed to:

  • Honouring cultural identity, embedding Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing

  • Empowering people to ask for help without shame — teaching that receiving support is strength, not weakness

  • Restoring community connection with the same compassion and consistency Erin lived by

  • Reducing recidivism by addressing the root causes of offending, trauma, and isolation

  • Breaking cycles of domestic violence, addiction, intergenerational trauma, and disconnection

  • Confronting systemic racism through grassroots advocacy and lived-experience-led guidance

  • Supporting sobriety and long-term healing through mentoring, peer encouragement, and cultural pride

  • Uplifting people through dignity, culture, and truth-telling

  • Providing hope and belonging through culturally grounded mentoring that empowers people to walk their own bidi— their own way forward


How We Work

Our mentors are chosen for more than their lived experience, they are chosen for their integrity, cultural insight, and genuine ability to uplift others. Every match is made intentionally, with deep respect for:

  • Shared humanity

  • Cultural connection to booja (Country)

  • Sustainable, relationship-led support

  • Knowledge and experience that cannot be taught, only lived

Because sometimes, all it takes is one person who sees you, truly sees you, to remind you of who you are, and who you’re still becoming.

This is Moort Bidi.
This is what legacy looks like: culture, kinship, purpose, and courage.

The Moort Bidi Mentoring Program is a living tribute to Erin Kalkaarni Quartermaine, a proud Nyoongar woman whose courage, healing, and community spirit transformed not just her own life, but the lives of those around her. She was four years free clean. A mother, a daughter, a friend. When she needed help, she asked for it, and that became her greatest strength. She never let shame silence her. She showed that healing isn’t about hiding pain, it’s about meeting it with honesty, support, and deep cultural pride. And Erin gave back. She was everything to everyone. If someone needed a check-in, she was there, with laughter, with wisdom, with love. She lived the values this program now carries forward. With Erin there, you never felt alone. We aim for this program to provide that same comfort, where you never feel you are walking this bidi alone.

Why it matters

Moort Bidi means “family path” in Noongar language, and this program is just that: a culturally safe, relationship-led mentoring initiative for people walking the long road home to themselves.

Built on the belief that healing happens in relationship, the program offers grounded guidance for individuals navigating major life transitions — particularly after incarceration, addiction recovery, trauma, or systemic disadvantage.

At the centre of this program is a hand. Erin’s hand. Flowing through her palm is a white line, this is her actual life line, now transformed into “bidi”, the path. It winds like her journey, strong, imperfect, and deeply human. This line means many things:

  • A Life’s Journey
    The path bends and curves, like her own story, one of resilience, recovery, and reconnection. Her life line reminds us that healing isn’t linear, but possible.

  • A Guiding Hand
    Erin was never afraid to ask for help, and that was her greatest strength. This program honours that strength by creating a culture where asking for support is not weakness, but wisdom.

  • A Community Connector
    She was everything to everyone. Erin checked in on people, not just those she loved, but anyone who needed it. That kind of connection is now the heart of this program: consistent, compassionate, human.

  • A Cultural Legacy
    In Aboriginal cultures, lines in sand and skin carry ancestral stories. This line flows through her, making her a spiritual guide for those still navigating their own path.