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

Nadir Of Human Endurance means that Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian" (one of Thirteen Deliverables) refers to three recent newspaper articles:

  1. SMH - "Crying out for a new beginning" - Rachel Olding - 2 Feb '13

  2. The Australian - "A criminal waste of young lives" - NATASHA ROBINSON -12 Jan '13

  3. THE AGE -  'Violence in indigenous communities must stop, says judge' - Mark Russell - 26 April  2013,

and a myriad of bureaucratic reports:

which evidence that the role, commitment and aptitude of each of the 10  x  Indigenous Local Connectors for each of the Three Motivational Teams Challenges, aggregate to 30 x  different Indigenous Local Connectors 'in toto' over three years (due to the diversity between sport, public speaking and I.T.) is pivotal to the success of the 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Programme, as these Indigenous Local Connectors mentor their 14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students in their Regional Township Team to prepare for one of the Three Motivational Teams Challenges.

 

Based on the above three newspaper articles and 7 bullet points, each Indigenous Local Connector would be confronted by some of the following with some of their 14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students:

            assault, break and enter, motor vehicle theft, malicious damage to property, child sexual abuse, neglect, family violence, youth suicide, school absenteeism, boredom, Social Disadvantage, dilapidated housing, early experimentation with alcohol, petrol sniffing and excessive cigarette smoking.

Past Preventive Health programme failures, specifically directed at communities with high aboriginal participation, evidence that the task upon Eleven Mentor Roles, delivered under the Private Sector Philanthropic Administrator Model is huge. 

Seemingly, there will be a lot of 'confronting' footage of Indigenous Local Connectors, supported by 'above and beyond' efforts from Six Regional Township Teams' Co-ordinators, endeavouring to solve a multiplicity of Social Problems that some of the 140 x  Accepted Students will encounter which threatens to derail those Students' commitment to their Three Motivational Teams Challenges. 

Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian" notes:

Many RTV programmes seek to maximise emotion, passion and sensationalism, even including a 'bad guy' in judging panels and/or contriving the results.  "Attaining Teenager Life Skills" would not follow this latter norm to attract high ratings.  An integral goal is to deliver a Feel Good Story  -  Win/Win Situation where all parties, including Council Mayors, Counsellors, and local Rotary and Lions members as Various Parties (identified in How in the Six Regional Townships) are pleased with the outcomes of the Thirteen Deliverables.

Achieve a Good News Story -  Feel Good Story  -  Win/Win Situation notes:

A.        Maximising positive emotion and passion for education will be in the mindset of the 30 Wise Old Owls.  Unlike many RTV programmes there will not be any 'bad guy' and/or contrived results, notwithstanding that these might boost TV ratings. 

B.        There would be no reference to the Six Regional Townships having been selected from amongst the 10 Lowest Socio-Economic Regions, either on 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills'  Website or in external correspondence.  Rather the Six Regional Townships had been selected because -

            (a)        a plethora of government reports and newspaper articles evidence acute Social Disadvantage; and

            (b)        there is a deficiency in Social Inclusion, in particular reliable mentoring support, which facilitates Maximising Life Opportunities.

Having established the vital ethic to respect all the Various Parties, the Four Proposed RTV Programmes would objectively present the emotional issues and problems that some of the 140 x  Accepted Students experience if those issues/problems negatively impact some Students' on-going participation in any of the Three Motivational Teams Challenges.  

"Attaining Teenager Life Skills" would present such Social Disadvantage and how Indigenous Local Connectors 'at the coal face' (supported by Six Regional Township Teams' Co-ordinators) sought to deal with it to facilitate on-going Student participation.

The vast majority of the viewing audience will readily appreciate the enormity of the task and ascertain whether the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement can achieve what govt. agencies (listed in Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian") have failed to do previously, namely deliver a cost-effective national Social Inclusion  Preventive Health programme.