| Project title: | Geraldton Streetwork Aboriginal Corporation Committee |
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| Project type: | Developmental Crime Prevention |
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| Researchers/contact: | Merrilyn Green |
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| Commencement date: | 1987 |
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| Location: | WA ; Geraldton |
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| Funding body/institution: | Australian Crime Prevention Award 1995 ; Geraldton Streetwork Aboriginal Corporation Committee |
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| Description of the study: | The committee established a Youth Centre for recreation, socialising and other more organised activities including the development of numeracy, literacy, pre-employment and employment skills. The committee also provides structured counselling programs (designed to foster self-esteem and self worth), personal advice, support and a girls only program. There is an artist in residence and art and craft activities are organised. Street workers are part of an outreach program in which streets are patrolled at night - youths in need are taken home or moved out of problem areas. A recycling project is another major activity. This project gives long-term unemployed people work for six months. Youths employed for this project have little work experience and it is unlikely that they would be considered for employment elsewhere. The committee has also gained the long lease of three hundred acres of land at Walkaway on which 'Gunnadoo Farm' has been established. Youth on Community Service Orders work at the farm, undertaking various horticultural activities. |
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| Description of the outcomes: | The training programs are considered a success. There are up to 150 young people attending the training programs and many have found full-time employment. |
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| Evaluation: | Unknown. |
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