Past Programs and Outcomes
What Doveton & Eumemmerring Young People Listen To: Alcohol and Other Drugs Project
This Project was conducted by Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE) with funding from Doveton Eumemmerring Neighbourhood Renewal.
The overall aim of the Project was to promote the health and wellbeing of young people in Doveton & Eumemmerring.
Objective
The Project objective was to develop an improved set of messages for young people living in the Doveton and Eumemmerring area about alcohol and other drug usage by June 2011.
Strategies
The Strategies of the Project were to:
- Design and facilitate focus groups for young people aged 14-19 years residing in Doveton and Eumemmerring to determine a set of messages to prevent alcohol and other drug use
- Identify a Reference group comprising of young people to consider the proposed messages and select the most effective messages
- Produce the messages in a media format selected by the Reference Group
- Distribute the messages to all schools servicing the Doveton and Eumemmerring area, to all Doveton and Eumemmerring sporting clubs and facilities and through youth networks and service organizations working in the City of Casey
- Produce a final report which summarises the views of those consulted of the efficacy or otherwise of current approaches as well as indicates additional supports or contacts young people may see as valuable when dealing with alcohol and other drug usage and circulate to youth and service networks of the Southern Metropolitan Region.
Final project report(Link to the PDF)
Alcohol and Other Drugs Project Final Report (PDF: 1.79MB)
Strengthening the Role of CALD Men within their Families in the Australian Context
This project was funded by Helen Macpherson Smith Trust
Project Aim
The aim of the Project was to establish, implement and evaluate a new model of interaction with CALD communities, using the peer leader and mentor model (drawn from specific CALD community leaders), to assist in the changes and developments needed in CALD men and their communities, as they settle into the Australian community.
Project Objectives
- Identify five CALD community groups of the Southern Metropolitan Region, to participate in this Program
- Identify up to five community leaders for each CALD group in first 2 years, who will then be trained as Peer Leaders and mentors for their own community, and who will work with children’s services workers in delivering the program to CALD communities.
- Establish a Reference Group for the Project, with representation from the CALD communities involved in the Project
- Provide the broad parameters of the peer education and mentoring program to be run with the different groups of CALD men and families, and to then tailor the plan to the needs of the individual communities
- Seek participants in the program from the targeted community groups – Sudanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Turkish, Afghani and any other new and immerging communities.
- Implement the programs to each CALD group and gather feedback on the outcomes, issues and perceptions of the participants
- Support the CALD men and families in specific support groups, focusing on the current issues affecting their families, the purpose of the programme is to find ways to soften the impact of migration on their children, their family unit and themselves
- Gather feedback from the support groups and from the community leaders and from workers
- Refine the community leaders’ training program, and the CALD support groups, on the basis of feedback gathered.
- Review the evaluation process and community indicators established at the beginning of the Project, in the light of participant feedback.
Final project Report
CALD Mens Project Final Report (PDF: 338KB)
