Cairns Hockey Aspire to be Deadly will be active during 2019 delivering a number of programs including

• Cape York Community Partnerships
• Torres Strait Islands Community Partnerships
• Gulf Savannah Region Community Partnerships
• Cairns and FNQ Community Partnerships

Cairns Hockey Aspire to be Deadly has a Program Manager, who has valuable experience in delivering into remote and indigenous communities, as well as a Regional Hockey Program Coordinator, with extensive experience in engaging, developing and delivering modified hockey programs, designed to broaden participation, build talent and create pathways. This includes

• Participation and Pathways Programs
• Mentor Programs
• Education and Training Workshops
• Parent and Community Engagement
• It has a significant focus targeting indigenous young women and girls but has broad based support to ensure the Programs can encompass community needs

Ambassadors and Role Models are available including a trainee Development Officer and a Mentor Support Coordinator , who are trained to deliver community support programs, using hockey as the vehicle to drive positive social changes.

Aspire Updated Report

Aspire to be Deadly recognizes that without local community support and direct engagement and involvement from local volunteers, this program cannot be sustainable. Aspire to be Deadly is building a strong network designed to build local capacities. This is done through identifying interested local volunteers and structuring training and mentor programs, designed to meet the needs of the individual, the community involved and the program outcomes itself.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS IN 2019

BDO Nth Qld supports the Aspire to be Deadly Program across all regions. We thank BDO Nth Q

SUPPORTING COLLABORATIONS 

1. Tagai College – Torres Strait Island  

2. Trinity Stingers Hockey Club 

3. Cairns West State School

4. Apumipima Health Services

5. NQPHN

6. JUST HOCKEY

Cairns Hockey Aspire to be Deadly is delivering across

• Torres Strait Island Communities
• Gulf Savannah Communities
• Cape York- in particular South East Cape
• Cairns Region

In partnership with Hockey Queensland RIHP, Cairns Hockey is driving regionally indigenous programs that link and connect into mainstream in a managed way and is the only regional association in Australia driving and supporting programs that benefit indigenous young women and girls in particular.

There are a series of mentor and workshop programs planned for 2017 which will assist and support the outcomes driving Aspire to be Deadly and in 2017 Cairns Hockey will look to promote these across the hockey community

2018 Aspire Plans

Focus this year will be on

• education and employment pathways
• parents and family support
• active mentor support programs
• links with Tropicana Lodge as a residential facility in 2018 onwards
• supporting links into mainstream programs

As the year progresses we will link our highlights and good news stories and promote the continued benefits being involved in this great program

2018 PROGRAM

• Torres Strait Island Programs – Aspire Schools Program – March – June 2018
• Cairns West School, Parramatta Park and Balaclava School expand the Cairns Aspire Schools Program  – Feb – August 2018
• Migi Kokan – March 2018
• Aspire to Good Health – South West Cape – Cairns Region – March – Nov 2018
• Indigenous Mentor Support Program- ongoing through the year
• Gulf Savannah – on going
• Local scholarships
• GET OUT GET ACTIVE Program

Aspire Updated Report

2018 Reconciliation Week

2018 Aspire Plans

Aspire to be Deadly started in June 2015 and it hailed the delivery of a program in the indigenous sports space of a regional hockey association – Cairns Hockey taking the lead and supporting community benefit programs for indigenous young women and girls in particular.

Cairns Hockey is very proud of this program and has in December 2015 formalized the commitment with inclusion of a  social responsibility pillar in the 2016-2020 Strategic Program where it highlights its commitment to Aspire to be Deadly

It is important to share this journey and in this section we look to highlight the work this program and its benefits across the community

2017 Karumba Report Version 3

Images of Karumba and Gulf Savannah Program

2017 Migi Report

JANUARY – MARCH 2017 Highlights Aspire

2017 IMAGES

2016 IMAGES

REPORT 2015-2016

Aspire Promotional Information

July-Dec 2015 Highlights – Aspire to be Deadly

Jan- March 2016 Highlights – Aspire to be Deadly

HIGHLIGHTING CAIRNS HOCKEY ASPIRE PROGRAM ACROSS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK AND NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEK

2015-2016 Annual Report – Aspire to be Deadly

30th June 2016 Highlights – Aspire to be Deadly

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2016-torres-report

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2016 Cairns Hockey Annual Report

HIGHLIGHTS THROUGH IMAGES 2015 AND 2016

2019 State School Girls State Champs – Cairns 13-16 June 2019 

• Aspire to be Deadly was invited to give Acknowledgement to Country at the opening ceremony
• The Girls were invited back to present medals at the closing ceremony

Aspire to be Deadly was asked to make a presentation at the School Girls Championship Dinner and presented the following

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUhM8xxO7g&t=20s

All this information was published at a presentation 13th June 2019 and could not publish or share before.

Facts about the Aspire to be Deadly Program and Cairns West State School Collaboration

• This program deals with indigenous young girls that have 68% chance of being sexually assaulted or the subject of domestic violence and abuse by the age of 12
• At risk young girls – with all the challenges that associate with this
• In the last 2 years of this program attendance has risen from 76% to 93% and remains steady at 93%
• School performance has improved with significantly better results from classroom teachers across this period
• Poor behaviour has reduced significantly- 2 years ago these young girls had 39 suspensions in 6 months – as part of the program in the last 6 months – this Aspire group has 3 suspensions

In addition to the information above, the programs support
• Indigenous Mentor Support Program – where Aspire mentors work at the school 1 day per week and build relationships with these girls
• Bus pickup support this program
• Transition to club hockey on Saturday
• More indigenous players and families participate at Cairns Hockey than ever before
• Cairns Hockey established Aspire to be Deadly Advisory Committee to review the RAP and strategic objectives around this program and transition to sustainable club participation
• Pathways to further education, employment and well-being
• Expanded to refugee students and family

Our Aspire to be Deadly leadership group presented the Acknowledgement to Country at School Girls State Hockey Champs and made such an impression they were invited back on the Sunday to present the medals at the closing ceremony. I link a few images that we hope reflect the positive outcomes this collaborative has.

2018 Schools Hockey State Champs – Cairns

https://queenslandschoolsport.eq.edu.au/Pages/default.aspx

Cairns Hockey Aspire to be Deadly Hockey Program and Peninsula School Sport have formed a partnership that creates an opportunity for our young women and girls involved in Aspire to be Deadly to attend state championships as part of a “Presidents Team”

Currently Wes Ferns and Jess Fatnowna are with Peninsula Hockey and the “President’s Boys Team” as coach and support coach respectively assisting and building relationships to strengthen the opportunity of a girls team in 2017 made up predominately of girls identified through the Aspire Program.

More information will be provided as this program is developed but we take the opportunity to thank Vicki Sparks for this innovation and working with us during 2016-2016 to develop the concept and put it in practice.

A total of 5 young people from the ASPIRE PROGRAM will be part of the President Teams in 2017

AYESHA MALONE

PRISCILLA TAKAI BOWIE

ANTON MOLA

ANAKIN FELL

GEORGIA JACKSON

This is a leadership program that merged the boot camp physical fitness activities and health and well being programs with a social hockey program and pathway linking the increase in physical activity and physical fitness with real time improvement in skill development and more positive results for the team.

Thus program aligned with the Aspire to be Deadly Participation program which assisted in the increase in school attendance through involvement in the hockey program.

Communities included

Thursday Island, Horn Island, Badu Island, Mabuaig island, Kubin Village

Cairns West State School and Community

The successful completion of this program and the reinforcement of the positive messages led to young women in this program being selected for representative teams which would not have been possible without the increase physical fitness levels and the understanding of good food choices.

For more information on this program contact Julie McNeil at ops@cairnshockey.com.au

We thank the North Queensland Primary Health Network for their support and assistance in delivering this project and look forward to continuing the partnership for better health and well-being outcomes for indigenous young women and girls using the Aspire to be Deadly Program .