Nintiringanyi Cultural Training Centre

EMPOWERING PEOPLE IN TO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

Nintiringanyi Cultural Training Centre

The Nintiringanyi Cultural Training Centre was registered as an incorporated association in 1999 and is listed on the Register of Cultural Organisations. The Centre is run by an all indigenous board of directors with 5 full-time staff and 6 part-time staff.

We are currently delivering five (5) training and empowerment programs available for community participation at our training centre in Mooroobool, Cairns.

Our success derives from the potential capacity to build a whole new generation of Indigenous motivators and inspirational leaders. As a community capacity building investment, we want to provide further training and personal development opportunities for Indigenous people.

We deliver quality training to equip and empower people for effective and sustainable impact in their personal and family lives as well as within their community and for their peers.

The Nintiringanyi Cultural Training Centre designs and develops culturally sensitive training, mentoring and empowerment programs for the benefit of Indigenous men, women and young people in Far North Queensland, with particular focus on the communities in West Cairns.

Programs

Life Skills: Skilling Queenslanders for Work

SQW delivers Job Preparation services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australian South Sea Islanders, who are long-term unemployed, employed 25 hours per week or less, older jobseekers aged 45 years and over, young people aged 15-24, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, ex-offenders and people with low levels of literacy and numeracy in Cairns over a one year period.
These services will include the LifeSkills course, coaching in work readiness and personal mentoring as the partcipant transitions from unemployment and/or disadvantage towards a secure workplace and home environment.
Key tools areas:
• Pathway Plan
• A Mentor
Participants remain in the project for a period of between 3 and 6 months, so as to give each person a solid foundation for success in achieveing her/his desired outcomes: a secure job or further training leading to employment.
Nintiringanyi’s Award winning LifeSkills™ program has been designed to further the aims of the Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative. This course has been a proven initiative to help & encourage those wishing to further their skills & training which ultimately leads to long-term employment.

West Cairns Youth Prevention and Diversion Program
 

Nintiringanyi Cultural Training Centre offers a program which helps to divert young people away from adverse contact with the criminal justice system by offering sporting, recreational, culturally appropriate and motivational activities that will have a positive impact on the lives of ‘at risk’ youth.
The West Cairns Youth Prevention and Diversion Program provides a vast range of activities which range from: holiday programs, holiday camps, after school programs, Youth Life Skills programs to motivational teaching sessions.
We work with a team of Youth Motivators who are committed to mentoring ‘at risk’ youth instilling in them positive moral values and lifestyle choices. We also establish career paths for youth, assisting them to identify goals, devise a resume and refer them to employers.

Indigenous Women's Life Skills

The primary objective of this project is to empower disadvantaged Indigenous women in the West Cairns area to undertake leadership roles in their networks and communities and to enable them to develop practical solutions to priority issues in their families and communities.
We aim to help strengthen & build relationships of trust and friendship by equipping these women through their participation in our Lifeskills and other relevant programs, working with a team to indigenous women mentors who are committed to instilling in our disadvantaged indigenous women positive moral values, better lifestyle choices and assisting them to better manage their families and lives.

Indigenous Sports & Recreational Programs

To encourage and enable wide community involvement and active participation in group sport and physical recreation activities in 13 communities in Cairns and the surrounding region of Far North Queensland by being able to:
• increase the active participation of able and disabled Indigenous Australians in sport and physical recreation activities
• encourage community ownership and management of sport and physical recreation activities, including through skills development.
• encourage drug-free participation
• raise the levels of health and fitness of Indigenous Australians by providing opportunities and resources for regular, beneficial and enjoyable exercise and competitive sport
• enable skills development of community members
• financially support non-elite indigenous athletes and sportspeople
These are designed to build the skills of community members to participate in, organise and promote community sport and physical recreation activities over the long term and promote healthy eating, drug free participation and respect for players, officials and spectators.
• Individuals
• Teams
• Organisations

Indigenous Integrated Learning Program

The project develops a culturally sensitive, integrated learning curriculum that improves VET outcomes and equips Indigenous participants for employment and business. Participants are involved in a Cert III in micro business. The model developed is relevant and deliverable in other regional and remote locations.