Although BATSICCHA's core operations have since evolved over the past 50 years, the Company has retained its grass-roots focus and still works to provide accessible, affordable and safe housing and accommodation options for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Greater Brisbane Area.

​While measurable improvements have been made in Indigenous service access and outcomes – greatly supported by the advent and growth of Community Controlled health and social services since the early 70s period - Brisbane’s First Nation Community still experience disproportionate disadvantage across all measurable domains (i.e. health, housing, employment, education etc.). There is a subsequent retained focus on ensuring the sustainability and maintenance of BATSICCHA's current and future service delivery functions.

​The establishment of Our service in 1974 represented a Community driven response to these issues; with the objective being to provide a fully functional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing service that would enable First Nations individuals and families access to affordable, safe and sustainable accommodation.

​Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social inclusion and economic development were and remain intertwined objectives. The first decades of BCHS’ operations aimed to deliver community housing in combination with access to holistic and culturally secure client and family support; linkage to other emerging Community Controlled organisations at this time; and access to housing that didn’t segregate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but rather enabled access to broader society and required services. Latest priorities for Our service illustrate this retained focus – with a major priority of our current business and service growth blueprint being formalisation and expansion to the range and type of individual and household case management and coordination supports and services that we provide.