Mentoring Child/ Youth Sunday Afternoon Development Program

Ngaran Goori Children / Youth Development Program aims to prevent substance use and related problems through:
  • Open Learning problem-solving and skill-building activities
  • Outdoor adventure-based experiential activities
  • One on One, as well as Group Mentoring
  • Community-oriented service learning
  • Referral pathways to ensure children / youth are fully supported; for example, for services such as counselling, health, employment and education.
  • Development of a sense of self-discovery and self-determination in the young people and their families.
The program relies on Indigenous Australian traditional cultural values to help youth develop positive self-concept, effective social skills, community service ethic, internal focus of control, and increased decision-making and problem-solving skills. The extreme value of mentoring should not be seen as a stand-alone, narrowly targeted program but rather as an activity that is entirely supportive of community values and goals and that is integrated fully with other activities related to community building, education, and healing.

Australian Alcohol & Drug Foundation (ADF)

ADF - The Local Drug Action Team (LDAT) Program supports communities to work together to prevent and minimise the harm caused by alcohol and other drugs. There are now 244 Local Drug Action Teams across Australia - Ngaran Goori is proud to be one their group. The 1st of August 2019 witnessed the development of a partnership with Alcohol & Drug Foundation (ADF) and Ngaran Goori. Ngaran Goori acknowledge and sincerely thank the Alcohol & Drug Foundation for their valued, help, guidance & encouragement throughout this project. The Program is designed to enhance the indivudal youth with hands-on guidance, learning, educational, life skill activities. Guest speakers, Community Elders as well as field trips, were incorporated to provide cultural & spiritual enrichment, to the attending community youth members.
  • PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:_- A mentoring project, for youth between the ages 5-16yrs.
  • There is high disengagement from school and social activities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) youth as well community youth in the Leichhardt Onemile Areas
  • The project will provide local activities for community youth to socialise and interact through the development of life skills.
  • Indoor/outdoor activities will be delivered under the guidance of trained volunteer mentors.
  • In providing a safe space for ASTI youth to interact with the wider community, and by increasing their knowledge of the various supportive community organisations.
  • The program / project strives to generate an increase in the youth's s metal & physical well being as well as reuinte their sense of connection to community and culture.
  • The weekly sessions included a healthy snack / meal, two (2) hours of physical and educational game or activity.
  • The skills of mentors were expanded to enhance their ability to provide instruction and support to younger children.
  • Having skilled community members as mentors who are reinforcing traditional cultural values with youth and children, creates a level of ownership and responsibility essential to program success

mentoring program design & implementation

  • Ngaran Goori Mentoring Program entails the promoting of Life-Skills in Aboriginal Children and Youth . Designed & implemented to deliver safe, fun and educational programns for Indigenous children and youth .
  • The program, commenced in 2019, aims to deliever and enhance educational outcomes, improve peer-to-peer relationships, increase school attendance and / or employability and improve physical and mental health of Indigenous children and youth through regularly offered weekly activities.
  • Activities may vary across the program but may include youth leadership, substance abuse prevention, sport for development programs, female empowerment workshops, and sport-based clinics .
  • The program takes participants through series of activities related to community history and cultural pride, family and peer communication, skills for problem solving, critical thinking and emotion regulation, bullying, dealing with discrimination, problematic substance abuse and prevention.

Voluntees & Mentors

Ngaran Goori hereby formally wish to acknowledge and sincerely thank our Program Mentors and Voluntees whose generous contribution of time and energy to this volunteer work was incredible. Your spirits are inspiring – we appreciate all your enthusiasm, thank you so much!

mentoring - positive outcomes

Young Indigenous Australians clearly face multiple and complex challenges that can put them at high risk of disengaging from their communities, schools and positive life courses. Although mentoring is no magic potion, a robust body of international and Australian evidence clearly demonstrates that it can be one powerful means by which a spiral into negative behaviours and outcomes can be short-circuited. To be effective, mentoring programs need to involve the local community in planning and delivering mentoring, involve community Elders & members, in the mentoring relationship, and—crucially—must involve long-term, respectful, and mutually fulfilling relationships between mentors and mentees. As an integrated part of a child/ youth program, mentoring can help to build protective factors that can facilitate healthy and productive lives of the future. High-quality mentoring relationships are of central importance: It is important that relationships are non-judgmental, affirming, empowering, inspiring; and built upon trust, mutual respect and dialogue. Long-term relationships are maintained: Perhaps the strongests importance of committing to and forming long-term mentoring relationships. Meaningful contact needs to be maintained for at least 12-18 months, with effectiveness and influence increasing the longer the relationship is maintained. Parents are involved in the mentoring relationship and additional support for parents is provided: Program evaluations repeatedly demonstrated that where parents were involved in the mentoring process, and where they were provided with additional mentoring or training (for example, in parenting skills), parent-child relationships improved considerably. Additional training and support for the parents also appeared to significantly reduce the stress levels in their lives and improve daily functioning. The program has provided informal mentoring to parents, linking them to a range of services to help address the results of historical abuses and ensure support was available to address the complex needs of the young person and the family. This additional support to the parents as well as to their young people contributed to decreased stress in parenting, increased support for the youth mentoring and improved family relationships.

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indoor activities -

Indoor actvities provided - boards games, art n craft, painting, drawing and colouring-in, card games, karaoke, pool table, other twister, sly fox, doll and other toys play other entertainment

Health & nutrition - food n drinks provided

Food n Drinks provided for all sessions
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