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

Team Community Service means as explained in Character Building Benefits From Volunteering for the First RTV Year when students are 13 and 14 years old -

(a)        clearing rubbish from or painting walls or seating at 'Local Community Utilities' (eg. community hall, swimming pool, tennis courts, parks, sporting oval, library, hospital, police station, fire brigade);

(b)        walking the wards of the local hospital or aged care facility and asking if anyone would like to chat;

(c)        growing a diverse array of vegetables (potatoes, pumpkin, kumara, onions, carrots, mushrooms) in a dedicated vegetable garden to learn how to cook a 'stir-fry' with these vegetables, mixed with various (cheaper cuts) stewing meats; and

(d)        planting trees and shrubs in 'Local Community Utilities'.

Team Community Service for the Second RTV Year and the Third RTV Year will be a challenging team project to construct, with the assistance of a retired local builder, a useful community utility and probably more satisfying community work.

For any of the 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students who are already undertaking volunteer work on a regular basis, such as 'caring' for family and/or neighbour elders, this would be counted towards Team Community Service.

Character Building Benefits From Volunteering notes that -

*          140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students will complete ten  x  5 hours sessions in each of the initial three years which aggregate to 150 hours -

  •         50 hours of Team Community Service in the First RTV Year; and

  •         a further 50 hours of Team Community Service in the Second RTV Year;

  •         a final 50 hours of Team Community Service in the Third RTV Year.

*           All of the 120 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students who attend each of the Four Challenge Judging Venues will

   (i)        carry out 'Meal Preparation Shifts' and 'Washing & Wiping Up Shifts' in the kitchen at breakfast and dinner on each day that Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students attend the Four Challenge Judging Venues whilst billeted at GPS or CHS Colleges during the September/October 2022 School Holidays when the majority of 'borders' are absent visiting their families; an

   (ii)      expend half a day at each Challenge Judging Venue learning how to plant and grow a variety of vegetables not limited to potatoes, carrots, beans, peas, broccoli, mushrooms and pumpkin, and updates of their efforts, namely growing vegetables, will be shown on the Teenager Life Skills'  Website.

Regional Township Team Web Folder will provide a chronology of all Team Community Service (details of venue, date, time, hours, number of students, photos, written references/testimonials from people assisted by the Team Community Service (ie. receiving a written  'Team Testimonial" from the Matron of the local hospital or from the Constable from local police station for cleaning, painting work etc). 

 

Item (D) of Answer 4 of How explains 'inter alia' that the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement would seek support/assistance from any Rotary Club District and Lions Club District in proximity of each of the Six Regional Townships for the 14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students in each of the Six Regional Townships performing 50 hours of Team Community Service in each of the First RTV Year, Second RTV Year and Third RTV Year. 

 

Ideally, one of Rotary Australia and Lions Clubs Australia would establish a club in each of the Six Regional Townships as a goal of the Teenager Life Skills' Programme is for RTV viewers, upon watching "Attaining Teenager Life Skills", to be more disposed to join a Rotary Club or Lions Club in their township, or form a new club, to assist others less fortunate than themselves, as the 'sum of the collective parts' usually exceeds the 'sum of the individual parts' due to 'economies, synergies and collective enthusiasm' to make a positive difference.