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Ways to get involved:
Volunteer
1. Help organize a group or a number of people to attend the WhyTry Program (WTP) to be conducted in your town.
How? Speak to your local community service clubs (Rotary, Lions, Apex, Country Womens Association), the local RSL and Leagues Clubs, local churches and youth service agencies or organizations, to financially sponsor students to attend the WTP.
Approach local business owners with a heart for youth and request them to financially sponsor as many students as they wish. 16 students make a group.
2. Recommend names of leading citizens in your community (provide email, postal address and contact details) whom you would like Oztry Foundation to contact about possible funding support or other in-kind donations ( offer a conference venue or hotel accommodation discounts to WhyTry Certified Facilitators coming to your city, if your city/town does not have a WhyTryFacilitator yet).
3. Become a part-time volunteer mentors to young people who have completed the WhyTry Program and who wish to plug into the proposed Oztry Mentors network for encouragement and support to stay on track to greater self-respect, freedom and opportunity. Youth mentors will need to attend a day long Workshop for Volunteer Mentors and to comply with clearly set out regulatory guidelines. e.g. Child Protection Clearance and guidelines for Mentors.
4. Assist with administrative matters, secretarial duties on a voluntary basis. e.g. ring potential sponsors, make presentations to potential sponsors etc..
Become a Certified Facilitator:
1. Consider attending the WhyTry Facilitators Certification Training (2 days) to be authorised to conduct or facilitate WhyTry classes or groups using the WhyTry Manual and teaching resources which are governed by strict copyright conditions, related to what can and what cannot be reproduced while using the program resources in Australia. WhyTry Inc. of USA will assiduously defend their product licensing and copyright arrangements in Australia.
2. You will be able to use the WhyTry Resources, as a counseling tool, in the discharge of your employment or job-related duties, counsel on a one-to-one basis and conduct WhyTry camps, and other forms of delivery.
3. Facilitators need to seek re-Accreditation on an annual basis. Re-Accreditation will depend on your annual level of WhyTry activity, satisfactory adherence to copyright conditions and participation in required monitoring and project evaluation processes.
Certified Facilitators are guided by a Code of Practice.
4. Oztry Youth Assist will refer to Certified Facilitators emerging opportunities of conducting, on a fee-for-service basis, WhyTry workshops for groups of youth identified by their schools/host organization and who are financially sponsored by their local community business owners, service clubs (e.g. Rotary or Lions) or by a regional corporate sponsor to attend the WTP.
Join our State-based Project Teams:
1. Join our state-based project management teams and add value to an organization which needs your assistance to achieve Oztry Youth Assist's declared mission and objectives.
Financial donations and support:
- You may wish to make a one-off financial donation.
- You may decide to be a regular donor
- You may wish leave a Bequest to Oztry Youth Assist
We require time, active volunteers and purposeful teamwork. There is no substitute for 'hard yakka'.
We need your support. Please join us - get involved and help Australia's youth to recognize and achieve their full potential.