Living in a Lasallian Brothers Community
** This placement is open to females only
About the Placement
This placement is located at the yourtown Child, Youth and Family Centre at Deception Bay, 3 days a week and Southern Cross Catholic College Scarborough, living with a Lasallian Brothers community at Scarborough. yourtown offers services to the Moreton Bay region that support and develop people skills with children, young people and families, increase wellbeing and help people connect with the community. The range of services includes:
Both Glugor and Starfish programs are community based early intervention and prevention responses. They provide safe and accessible responses for children, young people and families to assist them with practical and support issues that may be impacting on their lives. Families access the support they need for safe and positive family functioning. yourtown works to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of children, young people, parents and carers, and enhance their confidence in engaging with the local community. Interventions are provided for young children and infants who have experienced trauma and abuse or who have been exposed to violence.
Responsibilities of the LV role include:
This placement also includes volunteering for 2 days a week at Southern Cross Catholic College, which is a Prep to Year 12 co-educational school. The College was founded in 1995, following the amalgamation of the Catholic primary and secondary schools in the Moreton Bay Region. Southern Cross Catholic College has three campuses located in Scarborough, Kippa Ring and Woody Point; accommodating students in Prep to Year 6 and a fourth campus in Scarborough accommodating senior years students from Year 7 to 12.
As a Lasallian Volunteer you will have the opportunity to support the students of the College in a variety of ways. Volunteers have the chance to get immersed in many aspects of school life.
Lasallian Volunteers are welcomed and form part of the Brothers' community at Scarborough. Responsibilities in community can involve helping with home chores; including gardening, cleaning, and cooking.
Challenges: being a long way from family and friends, learning to live with others for the first time, learning to manage the challenging behaviours of some students, conducting yourself in a professional manner with students the same age as you and the diversity of students. Adapting to becoming a professional staff member when some clients are the same age as you and keeping a professional boundary from young clients, responsibilities of sharing a community car and accountability for driving a short distance each day to the yourtown site at Deception Bay.
Rewards:developing relationships with students a greater appreciation of local Aboriginal culture supporting students with challenging lives a better understanding of Brothers' life, experience life in Queensland. Making a positive impact in the lives of those of the most vulnerable in our community, becoming part of an Animating force of the Brisbane network of Young Lasallians and the ability to join parish youth groups, . growing in independence and developing lifelong professional skills and friendships. Access to a community car and living in a vibrant Brothers community, which provides daily pastoral and spiritual support
Preferred qualifications: driver's licence; solid literacy and numeracy skills; experience working with children and young people; experience with retreats.
To submit your interest apply here: Lasallian Volunteers Applications 2020
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