Defined Terms and Documents      'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Early Intervention Programme 

'Chip Away' To Fracture The Welfare Dependence Cycle means a welter of evidence exists amongst all Western countries that receipt of welfare dependence is often 'long term', as too many recipients become trapped in a cycle of reliance which has 'crushed the spirit' of many recipients.   Refer "Breaking the vicious cycle of welfare dependency" by Jenny Macklin - The Australian - June 21, 2010

It can be easier for Govt. to 'write a fortnightly cheque' than provide the complex tools/assistance for many "Unlucky" Australians to take greater carriage for their own lives.

Empirical evidence chronicles that 'education' and 'aspiration' are two attributes which can assist welfare recipients 'break the welfare dependence cycle'.

Breaking the Cycle?  The Effect of Education on Welfare Receipt Among Children of Welfare Recipients  - [59 pgs] (Coelli, Green and Warburton - University of British Columbia, Canada - October 2004) examined the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare backgrounds also fell back on welfare themselves. Their data consisted of administrative educational records for grade 12 students in British Columbia linked with their own and their parents’ welfare records.
It addressed potential endogeneity problems by:
1)     controlling for ability using past test scores;
2)     using an instrument for graduation based on school principal fixed effects; and
3)     using a Heckman-Singer type unobserved heterogeneity estimator.
School graduation would reduce welfare receipt of dropouts by ½ to ¾.
Effects are larger for individuals from troubled family backgrounds and low income neighbourhoods.

Enable New Role Models In Isolated Country Towns.......... explains that many Indigenous Australians develop from their family, and local friends, valuable 'Survival Skills' that in the case of television reporter, Stan Grant, were recognised by two mentors (high school teacher Mr. Bevan, and leading Aboriginal scholar, Marcia Langton) which jolted self-belief within Stan Grant that he could 'break the mould' that had encompassed his parents.

Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills Academic Forecast holds lofty goals that the 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Programme delivering Six Mentor Guidance Topics will stimulate and inspire many of the 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students to pursue higher education.

'Chip Away' To Fracture The Welfare Dependence Cycle is one of the Thirteen Deliverables From 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Programme.