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

Six Mentor Guidance Topics For Ten Regional Township Teams or Six Mentor Guidance Topics means in order to develop Problem Solving Behaviours a Cross Section Of Mentors will utilise a Variety Of Communication Options to mentor 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students (detailed in On-Site Workshops) to:

a)      develop -

          1.          a fervour for the fellowship and bonhomie from Team Bonding with the support of each of the Ten Regional Township Team's  Indigenous Local Connector, following On-Site Workshops (for the Year 9  Mixed Teams' Tri-Sports Challenge) for each of the Three Mixed Team Sports conducted by -
*        one of 2  x  Team Sporting Coaches for each of the Three Mixed Team Sports (6  x  Team Sporting Coaches for the three sports);
*        one of 10  x  Younger Indigenous Corporate Sponsor Sports Employees and;
*        one of 12  x  Sporting Role Models;

          2.          Public Speaking And Speech Preparation Skills to Speak Efficiently using Simple English bereft of Filler Words and Hold An Audience Confidently from On-Site Workshops (for the Year 10  Mixed Teams' Public Speaking Challenge) taught by two of 4  x  Public Speaking Instructors and one of 12  x  Sporting Role Models; and

         3.          skills to use I.T. And Useful Social Media Apps to manage finances and communicate efficiently from On-Site Workshops taught by two of 4  x  I.T. Geek Nerds and one of 12  x  Sporting Role Models.

b)      deliver Mentoring Support Messages at an On-Site Workshop (for the Year 11  Mixed Teams' I.T. Geek Challenge) at each of  Six Regional Townships (2 of 4  x  Life Skills Guardians and one of 12  x  Sporting Role Models) which -

         4.          discuss Four Nasty Pitfalls Besetting Teenagers;

         5.          point out that Indigenous Australians, in particular full blood Aborigines, are unable to maintain a 'fatty' Western diet and consume the quantum of alcohol and sugar/caffeine drinks that many Caucasians are consuming; and

         6.          explain the value of Combating Life's Negative Stressors With Regular Positive Stressors - for all but the last scintilla of Homo sapiens 125,000 years tenure on 'terra firma', Homo sapiens led an exceedingly physically active life as a hunter/gather and/or farmer.  Otherwise s/he couldn't feed their family.  Regular challenging exercise -

     *          was integral to human survival; and

     *          produces valuable Positive Stressors.

Additionally, Three Indigenous Australians that have "lived experiences of prison" and have defied Australia's Whacko Recidivism Rates by improving their life's fortunes post release, would deliver a presentation that focuses on -

   a)     the people that supported them along that journey, both within the correctional services system and family/friends; and

   b)     the merit of literacy, numeracy and fundamental computer skills - showing the particular Regional Township Team/s on a large screen that dedicated software programs on YouTube that stimulate a want to learn are all attainable on-line

Six Mentor Guidance Topics For Ten Regional Township Teams is one of Thirteen Deliverables From ''Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills'  Early Intervention Programme.