July 2022
Planning is underway for The Next Step 2025. Keep checking our website for updates!
The Next Step was a Youth leadership program co-designed by young people of North Richmond. The program aimed to provide young people between the ages of 16-25 in the North Richmond area, skills and confidence to fulfil their goals and create change for youth.
The Next Step was funded by the Department of Families, Fairness & Housing and was delivered in North Richmond by Track C Consulting and their delivery partners.
Building on the success of the 2021 round, the 2023 program aimed to uncover the strengths of local change champions in the North Richmond area and offered skills training in a range of areas including advocacy, developing and delivering local projects/actions and community leadership. Eligible local projects and actions received seed funding and mentoring support.
Watch this space for remarkable local stories emerging from this program.
28 July 2023
In July 2023, we hosted the inaugural Gender Equality forum in Geelong hosting close to 90 representatives from various LGA’s, Victorian Government and the not-for-profit sector as well as representatives from the community. We heard from Sarah Ayoub, writer and journalist who opened the forum urging us to pay attention to the intersection of gender and race in literature and journalism. We then immersed ourselves in a profound panel discussion comprising Aunty Nellie Flagg, Kgshak Akec and Sultan Cinar who presented very different and unique perspectives on role of women in the community and the challenges they face. We concluded the forum with Nos Hosseini, an Iranian/Australian lawyer and human rights advocate raising awareness about the female led revolution in Iran.
July 2022
In July 2022, in a bold move and in showing our solidarity with those who experience racism everyday in this country, we presented Racism, Raw & Real forum, the first forum of its kind in the Geelong region. With an outstanding lineup of speakers including the award winning author and public speaker Claire G Coleman, Leesa Timbi, Catherine Jonathan and Lowell Hunter, the forum provided the audience with a rare opportunity to engage in a meaningful dialogue about Racism with people who have lived it and continue to experience it everyday. Once again, the forum was warmly received, and we had close to 80 representatives from various LGA’s, the arts community and the not-for-profit sector in attendance.
July-November 2021
The North Richmond Community Leadership Program, funded by the Department of Families, Fairness & Housing attracted a large number of outstanding community leaders from the North Richmond area.
The participants represented a diverse group in terms of age, gender, ability and cultural background. The diversity of the participants enriched the conversations and created a platform for in-depth conversations and exploration of world views.
The focus of the Program was to provide the group with a range of discussion points and skills to enhance their intrinsic community leadership skills.
Track C Consulting and our delivery partners, were awestruck by the strength of local passion, talent and commitment to social justice. The Program affirmed the importance of investment of time and resources in community leaders, a true demonstration of commitment to the Nothing about us, without us philosophy.
Quote from a participant: “When I joined this Program, I didn’t think that we would leave as one big family”
Track C Consulting is committed to Child Safety Standards and:
• Has zero tolerance for child abuse
• Actively works to listen to and empower children
• Has systems to protect children from abuse, and will take all allegations and concerns very seriously and responds to them consistently in line with the organisation’s policies and procedures
• Is committed to promoting cultural safety for Aboriginal children, cultural safety for children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for children with a disability.
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