31.10.2011: IYLP - Program Development Committee
From the 12 to 14 October Members of the IYLP Program Development Committee met to work on the 2012-14 Program Model.
Members of the Program Development Committee include:
PAUL (PAULY) VANDENBERGH
Pauly is part of the Wirrangu people of the West Coast of South Australia, his family comes from a place called Koonibba. Pauly is married, with a 2 year old daughter and lives near the beach in Adelaide. Pauly is a very keen sportsman, he used to play professional basketball with the Canberra Cannons and was a member of the Melbourne Tigers Development Squad, he currently works for Port Adelaide Football Club managing all their Aboriginal programs. He manages a program called the Aboriginal Power Cup, which is a school-based program that encourages students to stay in school and begin thinking about their working careers once school in completed. Pauly is also a Director of the Jobs Australia Foundation Board.
KAYLENE SHERWELL
Kaylene is a Guni Kurni woman from Gippsland, Victoria. Kaylene currently lives and works in Melbourne with the Department of Planning and Community Development on; employment strategies for Graduates, Trainees and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Kaylene’s passions are working with the community on keeping fit and healthy, Kaylene trains elders in the local community to help keep them active, and is currently organising an Aboriginal women’s health and fitness group. Kaylene has a Bachelor of Management – Human Resources and Certificates III and IV in fitness specialising in training for older adults, she also is undertaking a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment so she can become a facilitator.
KELSI FORREST
Kelsi is 18 years old and hails from Geraldton WA, however she has recently moved to Perth to start her tertiary studies. Kelsi will be studying a Bachelor of Laws and Arts at the University of Western Australia. At the completion of her degrees she wishes to pursue a career in human rights and Social justice, with the aim of improving accessibility to the legal and political system for Indigenous people. Kelsi feels privileged to be a part of the program for a second year, last year was an amazing learning experience which she feels she has benefited greatly from, she believes the friends and networks she has made throughout the program are sure to remain life-long.
RHETT BURRASTON
Rhett Burraston is 20 years old and from Airds in New South Wales. Rhett recently become a father and believes that he has taken on the biggest leadership role he will ever play. Rhett has three different jobs; contracted with the Department of Housing NSW as a Community Support Worker, he works for an NGO called Workventures as a Program Support Officer and for another NGO called Campbelltown Family Support Services as an Aboriginal Youth Worker, the majority of the work is based around working with Aboriginal young people which has been a goal of his since he was 16. Rhett believes being accepted into the program and participating in both years has given him greater potential to now influence and empower other people’s lives than he would have had, had he not applied.
At the Jobs Australia Conference dinner Pauly, Rhett and Kelsi spoke about their experience as participants of the IYLP and their goals/hopes for the future as leaders.