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Community Education & Enterprise Program 2007

Project Aim

To form a Learning Community of young people that will complete a SBNA in Sport and Recreation. Young people to be recruited from a range of organisations detailed above. This will be a project based applied learning model involving participants to organise a series of activities, one a term. Outcomes are focused on the development of Employability Skills, paid part-time employment along with the successful completion of a VCE or equivalent. The enterprise model employs youth on a part-time basis assisting them to complete a SBNA and continue studies to the equivalent of Year 12.

Young people involved have been working for Basketball Victoria and Basketball Australia in the preparation and running of the National Junior Classic Basketball Tournament, Australia Boomers Vs New Zealand Tall Blacks Beijing Qualifier and the Australian Basketball Championships.

Young people involved in the project have participated in the VAYSAR Football and Netball Carnival in Shepparton. This involved the organising of teams to compete across ages from their communities as well as playing in the games.

The major focus of the year was the involvement of First Stop inCrocFest 2007 Respect Yourself, Respect your Culture festival that was held in Shepparton over 3 days. (Oct 16-18). There were 2700 young people from 51 schools around Victoria that attended.

A total of 20 people attended the festival as part of the First Stop Roadshow, this included 12 Indigenous young people that worked on numerous stages, staff and assessors from Swinburne and a film crew from Plug-In TV that worked with the young people to document the event. Our group was primarily involved in the running of Basketball clinics with Basketball Victoria and Tennis clinics with Evonne and Roger Goolagong. They were also involved in the Careers market promoting the value of education, traineeships and healthy lifestyles to the 2700 young people attending. All in all it was a sensational event, with the First Stop Trainees contributing significantly to the success of the event as well as working particularly hard in the sun running the clinics.

The success and innovative approach to increasing educational attainment and employment prospects for our Indigenous youth resulted in the First Stop Indigenous program being nominated for a Group Training Australia Partnership Award. First Stop was announced the winner of this award at the Careers Counsellor conference in Hobart on March 26th, 2008. The GTA press release in relation to this is attached.

First Stop was invited to present the model at theOuter East Health and Community Support Alliance. In 2008 we will be presenting at the Outer East Primary Care Partnerships Social Inclusion Series Many Entry Points for a Connected Community.

We have also been invited to present at the Workplace Research Centres 2008 National Conference Securing todays workforce for the future : the labour of tomorrow in Sydney on June 20.