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IAD TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE LEARNING THROUGH GAP YOUTH CENTRE PARTNERSHIP

14 May 2004
 In a first for Alice Springs, the Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD) has joined forces with the Gap Youth Centre Aboriginal Corporation to offer courses in literacy, numeracy and information technology to Aboriginal people at the youth centre.

From next week, the IAD will employ a lecturer, Georgina Nou, to work at the Gap Youth Centre between 9.30am-12.30pm Monday-Wednesday, delivering modules from the Certificate I in Information Technology and the Certificate in Spoken and Written English. The tuition will have an individual focus on the participant’s needs and will be delivered in the Youth Centre’s Deadly Mob Internet Café, which has 16 computers. The venture will be run as a pilot project until the end of the year.

The courses are being offered to people aged 15 and over, with no upper age limit, so friends and family members will be encouraged to enroll. The Gap Youth Centre also offers an on-site creche, so people with young families can participate. Students will be given statements of attainment as they complete each module, which can then be used to help gain employment or further education.

The IAD’s Education and Training Manager, Ray Cochrane said: “This venture in effect makes the Gap Youth Centre a second campus of IAD, where young people can learn in a familiar and supportive environment. It’s about taking education to where people are.”

The newly-elected IAD Chair, Richard Hayes said: “The people of Alice Springs have been crying out for community-based solutions to boredom, substance abuse and poor education among young people and this partnership represents a practical approach to these issues.”

The Gap Youth Centre’s Director, Ann Tregea said: “The Gap Youth Centre is very proud of this partnership with IAD as it enables us to offer an extended range of services to our existing and new clients at all education levels.”

NEWS EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: The new venture between IAD and the Gap Youth Centre will be launched on Tuesday, May 18 at 10am at the Deadly Mob Internet Café at the Gap Youth Centre, 3/93 Gap Road, Alice Springs. For media enquiries, please contact Kirsty Nancarrow on 08 8951 1379 or 0400 130 634. For interviews with Georgina Nou or Ann Tregea, please call 08 8953 3225/8952 3927

                                                                                                            


 

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