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The NRL’s flagship community-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program, School to Work, has won the global Beyond Sport award for governance, and for the man charged with running it that means a lot on a whole stack of levels.
“Dad would be over the moon,” said Kristian Heffernan, the program’s manager and youngest son of rugby league Immortal Arthur Beetson.
“When you look at where he came from and what he did both in and out of the game and what the game has been able to achieve using the positive profile of rugby league, he would be immensely proud of everybody involved.
“He would be rapt with the difference we’ve made collectively for this group of young adults.”
Aimed at getting indigenous students through their higher school certificates and on to fulltime study or employment, the aspirational mentoring scheme — which comes with the backing of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and 10 of the code’s clubs — took out the Sport Federation or Governing Body of the Year award at a ceremony in London.
Beyond Sport is recognised as the peak global organisation with a focus on demonstrating how sport can play an active role in sustainable social change.
Its awards are supported by Comic Relief and are backed by the likes of football clubs Arsenal and Barcelona and US NBA team the Detroit Pistons.
Also in the mix for the award was the Cairns Hockey Association’s Aspire to be Deadly.
“We know the program achieves some great outcomes but to be recognised at that level is fantastic for a program which is driven by everyone and we’re rapt,” Heffernan said of School to Work.
In June, the latest round of 115 School to Work students finished the program and 114 of those went on to further education or sustainable employment. Just short of 400 young indigenous students are currently actively in the program, with 237 currently in Year 12 at over 100 schools.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...d/news-story/fc55493e3ce14f159d976c34dd2211d1
“Dad would be over the moon,” said Kristian Heffernan, the program’s manager and youngest son of rugby league Immortal Arthur Beetson.
“When you look at where he came from and what he did both in and out of the game and what the game has been able to achieve using the positive profile of rugby league, he would be immensely proud of everybody involved.
“He would be rapt with the difference we’ve made collectively for this group of young adults.”
Aimed at getting indigenous students through their higher school certificates and on to fulltime study or employment, the aspirational mentoring scheme — which comes with the backing of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and 10 of the code’s clubs — took out the Sport Federation or Governing Body of the Year award at a ceremony in London.
Beyond Sport is recognised as the peak global organisation with a focus on demonstrating how sport can play an active role in sustainable social change.
Its awards are supported by Comic Relief and are backed by the likes of football clubs Arsenal and Barcelona and US NBA team the Detroit Pistons.
Also in the mix for the award was the Cairns Hockey Association’s Aspire to be Deadly.
“We know the program achieves some great outcomes but to be recognised at that level is fantastic for a program which is driven by everyone and we’re rapt,” Heffernan said of School to Work.
In June, the latest round of 115 School to Work students finished the program and 114 of those went on to further education or sustainable employment. Just short of 400 young indigenous students are currently actively in the program, with 237 currently in Year 12 at over 100 schools.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...d/news-story/fc55493e3ce14f159d976c34dd2211d1
