What, Who, Where, When, Why, How

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

What, Who, Where, When, Why, How & How Much?

What

Ten Corporate Sponsors establish a Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement to Fund and Administer an 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Early Intervention Philanthropic Programme - a Social Inclusion Programme that involves 14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students from each of the Selected Six Townships In The Northern Territory With A Population >2000 training/practicing, under the tutelage of an Indigenous Local Connector, to -

(A.) compete over three years in Three Separate Annual Motivational Teams Challenges during the September/October School Holidays against the other nine Regional Township Teams in Three Different Motivational Teams Challenges (one challenge each Late September/Early October School Holidays); and

(B.) separately receive Mentoring Support Messages from Life Skills Guardians in the second half of the Second RTV Year,

thereby receiving Six Mentor Guidance Topics from Eleven Mentor Roles.

14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students who live in each of the Selected Six Townships In The Northern Territory With A Population >2000 (known as Six Regional Townships) comprise Ten Regional Township Teams which aggregate to 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students who have -

a) previously not scored in the top 10% in Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests in their Submitted On-Line Application Form on the 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Website to be an Accepted Year Aboriginal 9 Student;

b) been notified by the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement that they have been selected as one of 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students that will be guided by a Cross Section Of Mentors under the Motivational Incentive Of RTV through being featured in some of 34 x One Hour RTV Episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills" during the Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills Coverage Period;

c) agreed to be Directed by Six Regional Township Teams Co-ordinators and mentored by a Indigenous Local Connector on a week-by-week basis (from end-March '17 to the end of the Sept/Oct School Holidays - 27 weeks in order to prepare for and compete in Three Motivational Teams Challenges; and

d) agreed to commit to the Character Building Benefits From Volunteering,

to thereby attain the Thirteen Deliverables From 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme as a platform to Maximise Life Opportunities.

A further 20 Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants across the Six Regional Townships who -

I.) scored within the top 10% in the Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests;

II.) are deemed to be receiving reasonable mentoring and guidance from their family, with at least one parent holding a tertiary qualification or trade licence, and in regular employment; and

III.) are thereby not invited to be an Accepted Year Aboriginal 9 Student,

are invited as a Work Experience Recipient to receive 5 working days Work Experience (8 Mentor Days) in the Third RTV Year, upon continuing at high school in Year 11.

ATLSEIPP -

* would deliver 2,685 Mentor Days of 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' to 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students who live in Six Regional Townships from the Selected Six Townships In The Northern Territory With A Population >2000 to attain the Thirteen Deliverables From 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme, which includes Closing The Gap In Indigenous Disadvantage;

* would televise 34 x One Hour RTV Episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills" with the initial 10 x First Year One Hour RTV Episodes which could be shown on TV (ideally ABC1) from Oct in the First Year - explained in Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian"

* contains +200 Defined Terms and Documents (to ensure we are all on the 'same page'), a 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme Budget (20 worksheets of costs and deliverables in Life_Skills_Programme_Budget.xlsx), a Structure Diagram, a timeline and detailed list of duties for each of the Eleven Mentor Roles;

* exploits the potent Motivational Incentive Of RTV; and

* would be fully Funded and Administered by Ten Corporate Sponsors @ $50k pa that would each provide Three Philanthropic Elder Colleagues for the Three Benefits To Ten Corporate Sponsors.

'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Early Intervention Philanthropic Programme Structure Diagram.

Who

The 14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students that make up each of Ten Regional Township Teams will Enable New Role Models In Isolated Country Towns And Enhance Pride In These Towns, in addition to attaining the other 12 of the Thirteen Deliverables From 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme.

Teenager Viewing Audience notes that several hundred thousand Australian teenagers, in particular Socially Disadvantaged teenagers in remote parts of Australia (as well as other overseas teenagers) who are not excelling, or did not excel at junior high school, will 'see first hand' during 34 x One Hour RTV Episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills" from 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students that they can relate to, that by acquiring Teenager Life Skills they too can Maximise Life Opportunities.

Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian" which is one of the Thirteen Deliverables From 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme notes that past Preventive Health programme limited success in Lowest Socio-Economic Regions evidence that the task is huge. There may 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 Accepted Students who experience the Nadir Of Human Endurance, which threatens to derail their commitment. History evidences that there will be an attrition rate.

Where

By the start of the First RTV Year, two of the six Year 9 Applicant Interviewers 'working in pairs' would visit each of the Six Regional Townships to conduct individual 30 minutes interviews with at least 25 x Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants who Submitted An On-Line Application Form after reading the Year 9 Poster Invitation of which 14 would be Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students to fill each of the Ten Regional Township Teams.

The Cross Section Of Mentors will provide On-Site Workshops at each of the selected Six Regional Townships for three Mentor Days to train, teach or mentor the Ten Regional Township Teams, either during school holidays or over long weekends by end-April each year, which aggregate to 540 Mentor Days 'in situ' training during the First RTV Year, Second RTV Year and Third RTV Year - collectively to instil Problem Solving Behaviours.

Ten Regional Township Teams will travel to Three Motivational Teams Challenges to be held at the below Four Challenge Judging Major City Venues comprising the -

(i) Year 9 Mixed Teams' Tri-Sports Challenge where five of the Ten Regional Township Teams will attend the Western City Tri-Sports Challenge and the other five Regional Township Teams will attend the Eastern City Tri-Sports Challenge;

(ii) Year 10 Mixed Teams' Public Speaking Challenge where the Ten Regional Township Teams will attend the Southern City Public Speaking Challenge; and

(iii) Year 11 Mixed Teams' I.T. Geek Challenge where all Ten Regional Township Teams will attend the First City Venue.

When

During the Max 4¾ Years of the Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills Coverage Period which could commence as early as end-December 2020 which should allow sufficient time to establish the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement and source 10 Indigenous Local Connectors for the first of the Three Motivational Teams Challenges, namely the Year 9 Mixed Teams' Tri-Sports Challenge in the First RTV Year.

The Indigenous Principal's Representative is engaged by the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement to perform specific Duties And Responsibilities to facilitate achieving the Thirteen Deliverables, in particular -

A.) recommend the Six Regional Townships for acceptance by the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement;

B.) source Ten x Indigenous Local Connectors for the Year 9 Mixed Teams' Tri-Sports Challenge for acceptance by the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement;

C.) communication/liaison conduit with the three tiers of government in Australia's six States and two Territories for the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement; and

D.) provide a 'Monthly Progress Report' under 'Agreed Terms Of Reference' to the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement.

Why

You cannot pick your parents. Some humans have been "Lucky" with the parents that they drew and the opportunities that they have received. The "Lucky" ones owe it to the "Unlucky" ones to "give them a hand".

Why will the 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme prove cost-effective when so many other previous interventions have failed in isolated country towns? Because of the Motivational Incentive Of RTV and Project Development Expertise and Complimentary Low Cost Initiatives provided by the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement and because the Programme Budget Costs are only $1,500,000 over three years - split across Ten Corporate Sponsors.

On 13 February 2013, the then Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and the then Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, announced bipartisan support for legislation known as the Act of Recognition which recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples as the first inhabitants of Australia. Many of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples need a lot more from 'white Australia' than recognition.

Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian" refers to an article in the SMH titled "Crying out for a new beginning" which described the remote western NSW township of Bourke, with a population of 3000 and a high Aboriginal content, to be more dangerous than in any other township in the world. Crime rates in the nearby towns of Walgett and Cobar are not materially lower:

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 in remote Australian townships which have a high aboriginal population.

The title of the SMH article encapsulates 'The Solution'.

The below extracts from Rachel Olding's article evidence that -

(i) many children in isolated country towns like Bourke, with a high percentage of Aboriginals, face unique difficulties that the vast majority of "Lucky Australians" do not; and

(ii) Bourke has no 'role models' amongst the Aboriginal population which other Aboriginals can aspire to live like.

"Bourke topped the state for six of the eight major criminal offences last year including assault, break and enter, motor vehicle theft and malicious damage to property.
Aboriginal youths make up 80 per cent of incarcerated people in the region.
Astonishingly, there are more than 50 organisations run by the state, federal or community in Bourke that receive millions of taxpayer dollars each year to address the town's problems.
State, federal and local governments have dismally failed the town of Bourke. Yet so has the town itself.
"I couldn't say there are leaders in Bourke because there are no role models," said a local foster mother, Lillian Lucas, 35.
One community member, who wished to remain anonymous, said the only way forward for Bourke was to start afresh with new approaches."

Productivity Commission's 2014 'Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage' report notes some disturbing concerns, including almost no change in literacy and numeracy results, "which are particularly poor in remote areas" - Peter Harris, Chairman, Productivity Commission

"The Government will continue to work with individuals, communities and businesses to build stronger Indigenous organisations and find practical ways to foster economic prosperity at the individual, family and community level." - Closing the Gap - Prime Minister’s Report 2015

SMH's "Crying out for a new beginning" and other newspaper articles and committee reports, evaluated in Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian" evidence that many Socially Disadvantaged Indigenous Australians in isolated country towns struggle in western society which -
(a) places an enormous burden on local communities; and
(b) evidences excessively inefficient expenditure of the 'fiscal pot'

Journalist, Rachel Olding's afore-mentioned SMH article motivated the Writer to R&D a Social Inclusion programme titled 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Early Intervention Philanthropic Programme to achieve the Thirteen Deliverables From 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme - fully funded and Administered by Ten Corporate Sponsors - able to commence at end-2020.

To achieve the Thirteen Deliverables From 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Philanthropic Programme, in particular to Close The Gap In Indigenous Disadvantage.

Why The ABC Should Proceed With ATLSEIPP

How

In accord with the Private Sector Philanthropic Administrator Model, the CEOs of Ten Corporate Sponsors would identify the Three Benefits To Ten Corporate Sponsors / Wise Old Owls and provide Three Philanthropic Elder Colleagues each who possess Three WOO Qualities to make up the Thirty Philanthropic Elder Colleagues required under the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement to Administer The Final Format of the 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Early Intervention Philanthropic Programme.

(See also How To Proceed With ATLSEIPP).

How Much?

Ten Corporate Sponsors each Fund 10% of 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Programme Budget Costs, namely $50,000 pa Pro-rata Annual Contribution To Budget Costs for each of three years which is more than the Programme Budget Costs require.

Due to the material input from the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement, the internet and a Variety Of Communication Options, 'Operations Costs' for a project of this scale are exceedingly low.

A television production company, the ABC, or the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement could pay the Writer a Peppercorn Fee of $10 for all the I.P. associated with the 7 months R&D to prepare the format of 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Social Inclusion Early Intervention Philanthropic Programme.