Port Stephens
Program:
Dolphin Assisted Therapy November 2004
Why?
To introduce DAT to our portfolio. Dolphin Therapy has wide ranging effects and outcomes via vibrational, sonic and experiential healing. These programs are available to our full range of clients and there families. Everyone benefits via the encounters and outcomes.
§ Stress from societal and peer pressures
§ Health challenges
§ Depression
§ Learning difficulties and blockages
§ Self esteem and confidence building
§ Adventure, environment and educationally based
§ Well researched and scientifically proven
§ Pure FUN.
Maitland,
Oct 19-20, 2002
Program
Mentoring camp with younger males in conjunction with the Maitland Youth Enterprise Centre.
Why?
Identified that young males transitioning from high school (ages 10, 11, 12) could benefit and that earlier intervention is necessary. There are a lot of single parent families and so they miss out on male role model / adult figure
- Need expressed for youth programs rather than services
- Need for ‘mindset’ change: young people need to accept responsibility
- Lack of self-esteem
- Need more early intervention activities / focus
- Need to integrate services and programs better and access to preventative programs to avoid crisis situations
Port Stephens,
Nov 9-10, 2002
Program
Girls camp around healthy relationships and anger management / crime behaviour
Why?
Shown that females are offending more and are getting more violent
Windale
Nov 23-24, 2002
Program
Mixed camp to address issues of leadership, teamwork and relationships / angers
Why?
- Identified that gaps in service provision exist for those not considered extreme enough or are seen as bad at home but ok at school
- Investigate ways of providing facilities and developing programs to provide respite care (time out), on a short term basis for individuals in families in need of support
- Improve activities for young people with a program to include: gross motor skills and sport development, mentoring opportunities for local sporting identities, issues – healthy lifestyles, drugs and alcohol awareness, self-esteem
- Prevention programs to reduce use of violence with those at-risk
- School education camps to promote learning of ways of expressing emotions, stress and anger (suggested to be in excess of 2-3 days for difficult kids to work through bravado and start to explore alternatives to violence and expressing positive emotions
- Provide drug and alcohol programs for young people
- Raise the level of awareness of among young people and the community of the implications of the Young Offenders Act (1997)
Woodrising /
Bolton
Point
Dec 7-8, 202
Program
Mentoring camp with males and a significant person that they identify in their life in conjunction with collaborative work involving Lake Macquarie Youth Network, Northlakes Youth Project, Lake Macquarie Youth development Project and Northlakes Youth Counselling Service.
- This will increase community capacity to generate positive relationships vis community education / mentoring: promote positive influence of males in the family unit, conflict resolution programs in conjunction with anger management
- Promote positive relationships among young people, including those who are unemployed
The ‘What’s Next Program’
Is a resilience and community capacity building support program for young people aged 15-16 who are at risk of leaving school early or who no longer attend an educational or training facility and are therefore generally disconnected from the support, resources and opportunities offered by the wider community. This is a 20-week program.
Key areas addressed will be drug and alcohol use, financial independence, violence and crime, goal setting, and the sue of family and community support systems
Funded by DOCS and is supported by Dominos Pizza Glendale |
