Advance

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• Advance young people and communities working
  together

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Department for Victorian Communities (DVC)

• Our Aim
• Active, Confident, Resilient Communities
• Our Focus
• Community Strengthening
• Linking Up Services
• People and Place

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Advance young people and communities working
together

• Advance was initiated in 2004
• Contributes to the DVC objective to create
  communities that encourage participation
• Advance is a PARTNERSHIP between schools,
  community organisations and the Office for Youth
• Essential elements of Advance are
• Young people DO something with their community
• They do it in PARTNERSHIP with a community
  organisation and
• It includes young peoples CHOICE.

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Advance Goal

• To enable young peoples participation and
  volunteering in community life.

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Components of Advance
There are five key components the next few
slides explain them
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Learning Module 1 - Community

• Developing a group behaviour agreement
• Developing individual goals
• Identifying current and potential connections
  between young people and their community
• Identifying services available for young people
• Researching youth services
• Sharing research

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Learning Module 2 - Communication

• Reporting
• Giving Receiving Feedback
• Negotiating
• Problem Solving

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Learning Module 3 Project Management

• Defining the Project / Activities
• Planning
• Doing
• Evaluating
• Reporting and Celebrating

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Recognised Training

• A recognised course will usually
• Take about 20 hours
• Result in the development of a new skill
• Have a certificate awarded at the end of the
  program
• Be delivered away from the school and
• Be delivered and or assessed by someone other
  than school staff.

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Community Project or Series of Activities

• A community project or activities could be
• Volunteering with an organisation
• Raising awareness of an issue
• An event
• An action
• REMEMBER
• Young people must DO something with their
  ccommunity in PARTNERSHIP with a ccommunity
  oorganisation which is based on young peoples
  CHOICE.

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Recognition and Celebration

• Can range from informal acknowledgement that
  occurs within the group to
• Formal public events
• Incorporated throughout the program rather than
  only at the conclusion
• Link in with promotional opportunities for the
  young people, school, community organisation(s)
  or broader community.