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Program spotlight : Getting Tough or Getting Together - a model of engagement

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Parker, Robyn
  • Journal Name: Family Relationships Quarterly
  • Journal Number: 13
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

A group of professionals in the Wodonga region in north east Victoria have formed a partnership to deliver a unique model of improving young peoples' engagement with school and the community and providing support services to their families. To find out more, Robyn Parker talked with members of the network of professionals who run the program: Shandell Blythe (Gateway Community Health); Leading Senior Constable Kevin Mack (Youth Resource Officer, Victoria Police); Margaret Hunter (Gateway Community Health); and Alyson Miller (Assistant Principal, Wodonga Middle Years Campus).

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