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WA REGIONAL RESOURCE CONNECT
The WA Regional Resource Connect project aims to connect regional and remote people to digital resources via regional and remote Community Resource Centres (CRCs) and Neighbourhood Centres (NCs). Linkwest will build on the Australian Senior’s Computer Clubs Association’s Senior’s West Australian Digital Expansion (ASCCA-SWADE) Capacity Building project of 2018 and intends to recruit new CRCs and NCs to the Be Connected network and strengthen the relationship of Centres currently already part of the network.
WARRC will engage the main principles of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) to create a state-wide co-learning community centred around CRCs and NCs and working towards supporting seniors with digital literacy. While the project’s main delivery partners will be CRCs and NCs, Linkwest will also work with, and recruit, other partners.
The project will directly benefit the participating Centres and the senior members of their communities. The innovative aspect of the project is the ABCD, strength-based project model centred around CRC/NC hubs:
The project will involve three phases and has the following overarching outcomes:
Recognising that more and more Linkwest members are being approached by community members to assist them with their digital challenges in their communities, ASCCA is a significant stakeholder, providing valuable insight from their experience and knowledge, Linkwest will be working closely with them to learn from their experience and to ensure no knowledge or relationship is lost and to increase the number of Senior’s Groups in order to develop social networks with a peer to peer digital support outcome for older Australians throughout regional Western Australia.
WARRC will engage the main principles of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) to create a state-wide co-learning community centred around CRCs and NCs and working towards supporting seniors with digital literacy. While the project’s main delivery partners will be CRCs and NCs, Linkwest will also work with, and recruit, other partners.
The project will directly benefit the participating Centres and the senior members of their communities. The innovative aspect of the project is the ABCD, strength-based project model centred around CRC/NC hubs:
- Asset based: considering what knowledge and skills already exit in the network and working towards activating these.
- Place based: based around CRC/NC hubs, which are well embedded in their local communities and benefit from significant expertise and community trust.
- Citizen led: working from the bottom-up by involving local communities (through the Centres) in the program design and delivery and allowing these to set their own agendas.
- Inclusive: working towards engaging even “shy learners” by capitalising on the Centre’s relationship with senior members of their community and other agencies. Inclusive, in this context, signifies not just being open to all seniors but actively seeking to engage even those who may be reluctant due to various barriers.
- Relationship focused: using the Centres existing relationships and strengthening the relationships between both CRCs and NCs and their communities.
The project will involve three phases and has the following overarching outcomes:
- Strengthening of NCs/CRCs capacity to support the senior members of their communities with digital literacy
- Strengthening of the relationship between centres and between centres and their communities
- Empowering centres and individuals to share (thereby embedding) knowledge
Recognising that more and more Linkwest members are being approached by community members to assist them with their digital challenges in their communities, ASCCA is a significant stakeholder, providing valuable insight from their experience and knowledge, Linkwest will be working closely with them to learn from their experience and to ensure no knowledge or relationship is lost and to increase the number of Senior’s Groups in order to develop social networks with a peer to peer digital support outcome for older Australians throughout regional Western Australia.
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Be Connected - Every Australian Online
BeingThere Video Conferencing
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Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association
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Department of Social Services - Be Connected Program. Every Australian online.
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Good Things Foundation Australia
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Book a chat with Natika
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