Working in Safe Places CD-ROM
Client
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
Description
This project was funded under the 2008/09 Adult Literacy Innovative Projects funding provided to Precision Consultancy in collaboration with Charles Darwin University. The project focused on developing language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills of the workers employed in Safe Places, a program funded by the Northern Territory Department of Health and Families to provide remote communities with infrastructure and resources to support Indigenous men, women children and families from violence and abuse.
Project staff conducted a series of workshops for the Safe Places team who facilitate training to community workers across the NT. Participants developed an understanding of LLN, of the LLN requirements of work in Safe Places, and of the LLN requirements of their own training.
With a new awareness of LLN, the team went on to develop resources for their work in Safe Places.
The outcome
The resources developed throughout the project have been collected together on a CD ROM. The resources include:
- paper-based activities to develop skills to write reports and complete forms, incorporating scenarios described on audio files
- a PowerPoint presentation and wordlists that focus on the vocabulary used in Safe Places
- posters to assist with understanding different types of violence, that also provide a starting point for conversations about violence
- videos to explain how the posters can form speaking and listening activities with both men and women.
