Beyond Billabong

Key Stakeholders

Key stakeholders in the business model include:

DEEWR

DEEWR have provided funding for the commencement of programs from March 2009. The initial commitment is through to June 2010. DEEWR have also been instrumental in providing access to other service providers and other avenues of support through their extensive networks.

QANTAS LINK

Qantas Link are sponsors of the Beyond Billabong Programs, providing discounted travel for our Group and Individual flights.

DEPARTMENT OF SPORTS AND REC – ARC

The ARC offers programs that are fully supervised and led by trained instructors. Accommodation is cabin style and catering is fully provided. The activities provided at the centres focus on a range of physical fitness activities developed to create a challenging learning experience for the participants.

AACC - PASTORAL COLLEGE CAMPUSES

The Australian Agricultural College Corporation comes under the responsibility of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. The college campuses provide excellent facilities for training and accommodating participants on Beyond Billabong programs.

Beyond Billabong has a memorandum of understanding with the AACC for the use of the facilities and accreditation of certain program outcomes.

HEALTH

Participants in programs generally suffer from poor health associated with:

  • Lower participation rates and preventative health programs e.g. cervical screening and breast cancer detection, Sexual Health;
  • High rates of undetected risk factors and chronic disease;
  • Delayed referral for end-stage disease making treatment options more expensive e.g. renal failure;
  • Being less likely to ask for preventative health assessments;
  • Having unequal access to Medicare.

As part of the induction phase of each program a health check is made of each participant by a qualified health practitioner.

The health checks are comprehensive. The purposes of the health checks are to establish the current health status of the individual and to encourage involvement in regular and comprehensive health checks once the individual is back in the Community. This important preventative health measure will help to reduce the high rates of illness among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. It further allows doctors to target risk factors for chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, substance use and other health problems that can commence in childhood or early adolescence.

Legally, “informed” consent is sought prior to health checks and for participants under the age of 16 years parental consent is compulsory. Owing to the extensiveness and the sensitivities of the health check the results and necessary follow-up is necessarily conducted in conjunction with the participant’s community with the support of family members.