List of participants and their purpose within the programme:
Freedom Fitness PLUS, www.freedomfitness.co.nz – Extending current work with at-risk youth by creating and facilitating this full programme. Several emails and letters of support for our work with at-risk youth are attached.
Salvation Army Glenfield – An organisation our students can support as they learn the art of philanthropy.
Chefs for Compassion, http://www.chefsforcompassion.com/ – Teaching the art of philanthropy through the preparation and service of food.
Parents Inc, http://www.parentsinc.org.nz/cms/ – Delivering a parenting course to the caregivers/adults/parents of programme participants.
Kaleidomedia, http://www.kaleidomedia.co.nz/ – A media company owned and run by a local 24 year old. This company will facilitate media experience and give a company perspective to programme participants as seen through the eyes of the 24 year old owner.
Arcadia Skin Care, http://www.facebook.com/ArcadiaSkinCare – Health advice from a qualified Naturopath. Another business perspective in terms of running a lifestyle business.
Musetude, http://www.musetude.com/ – Releasing the creative genius within programme participants through music. Using their methods this organisation can release sufficient genius/mind power to teach two years of classical music study in just two weeks.
Toi Ora, http://www.toiora.org.nz/ – An art space in Grey Lynn currently working with referrals from DHB’s. Wants to expand into youth work and will deliver the art, music, and drama aspects of the programme.
Four Letters, http://www.fourletters.co.nz/ – A local Birkenhead skate shop owned and operated by a 24 year old. This business is like a magnet, attracting hoards youth as young as years of age and up to mid-twenties. Liam, the owner, will deliver perspectives on creativity, business, and responsibility, with a complete understanding for what it is like growing up as a teenager in Birkenhead.
Organic Planting – This activity will be provided by a couple of different groups in possession of youth work experience all over the world. They bring to the programme creative, inter-generational, career, and maturity perspectives.
Peter Taylor, http://www.speakers.co.nz/petertaylor.html – Peter is an equestrian athlete with international experience at the top of his game. A unique circumstance irrevocably changed Tailors life. While at the Barcelona Olympics, he was unknowingly infected with a rare parasite from a sand fly bite. The illness, Visceral Leishmaniasis Donnovanni, usually kills by destroying the bone marrow within twenty months. Peter remains the only person living in the world now in his tenth year of infection and fulfilling a hard regime of chemotherapy. His ability to continue repeated rounds of treatment have made him a medical pioneer, completing 900 doses.
Now partially blind and severely deaf from the effects of the treatment, Peter brings a refreshing personal perspective to dealing with change and motivation. The only thing that keeps this viscous disease under control is those monthly doses of intense chemo-therapy and it always makes Peter extremely sick for one week each and every month. For the other three weeks Peter carries out amazing and inspiring works, which helps him to add to the hundreds (maybe thousands) of intriguingly motivational stories to tell. He also performs on stage delivering his message of courage, hope, and encouragement. Peter is the only person I know in the world in possession of every right to ask of his audience one very important question - “So, what’s YOUR excuse?” If there are others out there, I just have not met them yet.
Now partially blind and severely deaf from the effects of the treatment, Peter brings a refreshing personal perspective to dealing with change and motivation. The only thing that keeps this viscous disease under control is those monthly doses of intense chemo-therapy and it always makes Peter extremely sick for one week each and every month. For the other three weeks Peter carries out amazing and inspiring works, which helps him to add to the hundreds (maybe thousands) of intriguingly motivational stories to tell. He also performs on stage delivering his message of courage, hope, and encouragement. Peter is the only person I know in the world in possession of every right to ask of his audience one very important question - “So, what’s YOUR excuse?” If there are others out there, I just have not met them yet.
Jesse’s Superfood, http://www.facebook.com/jessessuperfood – Jesse is a chef with a young baby suffering from severe lactose intolerance and gluten allergy. She uses her cullinary knowledge to create amazing super-foods a mother with such a baby can use whilst breast-feeding. Another advantage eating these super-foods is the additional health benefits they deliver. It is not easy to substitute white flour with buckwheat. Jesse has employed a deep understanding of how to prepare food with a vivid imagination of what ingredients can be used in place of the harmful ones. She runs a business that supplies the superfoods she makes to mothers who want healthier babies. She can provide knowledge of food preparation and a business perspective.
Elias Kenaris, http://www.eliaskanaris.com/ – A Leadership Coach and Business Mentor. Elias has worked all over the world running some very large company divisions for companies like Gen-i. He specialises in helping people develop their leadership and influence potential.
Colleen Sluiter, www.bigbusinessinsight.com – A Business Coach specialising in Marketing. As an owner of several businesses and an immigrant from South Africa Colleen brings an internation understanding and perspective to the programme.
Steve Boardman, http://waspsecurity.co.nz/ – Still in his 20’s and without a single formal qualification Steve owns and operates one of the most professional, honest, and competent security businesses around. Another one who brings it all to the table, and he is young enough to remember what being a teenager was like.
Rawene Centre, http://www.rawenecentre.org.nz/ – This is the landlord for Freedom Fitness PLUS and the provider of the location where this programme will be run.
Youth On Track, http://youthontrack.org.nz/ – The brainchild of a 19 year old who had been through it all. You name it, it probably happened to him as he was growing up. He shared his desire to help others with 59 year old Pete, and Youth On Track was conceived. Some months and a whole lot of work later, this organisation is completing a number of registration processes, has a full board of trustees, and a patron, Christina Stroud of www.christinastroud.com Christina deals with P addiction and has reported a 97% success rate. The Government run alcohol and drug addiction programmes report a much more modest claim with regards to success, reportedly hovering in a single digit percentage figure.
The Flat FM, http://www.flatfm.co.nz/ – Owned by Anthony from Kaleidomedia, The Flat FM is another success story. The radio station has three transmitters – one in Birkenhead, Hamilton, and Whangarei. With over 8,000 listeners aged between 10 and 25 years of age (they also stream online) these guys bring some fantastic perspectives to the programme, not to mention an affordable way to reach our target market for this programme. The aim is to be running a radio show as part of this programme.
BNI (Business Networks International) Harbour View http://www.bni.co.nz/chapter_details.asp?chap_id=14227 – An important part of the programme providing a large proportion of the business networks we will involve to give youth different forms of work experience.
Interesting people who have shown a high level of interest in appearing as guests on the radio show intended to be associated with this programme:
Mark Knoff Thomas – Runs the city office of Kelly Services, http://www.kellyservices.co.nz/NZ/Contact-Us/Branches/Auckand-CBD/ Mark is passionate about employment opportunities and career paths for youth.
Peter Grace – Has spent 20 years working with families dealing with experience of mental illness. http://www.sfauckland.org.nz/SUPPORT/Our+Team/Waitemata.html
Many of the providers outlined in the programme.
In addition we will be working closely with a large contingency of community networks including the local Community Co-ordinators and schools. We have already been in discussions with career advisors from Glenfield College and other relevant organisations, although we are yet to see where these will lead.
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