1. Who is The Community Development Foundation?
The CDF was started by Jenny Day and Barry Cable with a mission:
To directly relieve poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, disability and helplessness in less fortunate Communities statewide
Operating statewide for the past 12 years
All projects are community driven, and by community request
We’re about enabling local communities to make informed decisions through education and working alongside them
Current projects include: The Passport System (Schools, Community, Sport and English as a Second Language/Dialect - ESL/ESD), Justice Link and MOASH buildings.
Introduce all staff present
Remember to acknowledge lands and owners where required

2. What is Community Development to us?
About a mutual partnership and listening.
Enabling people to make positive decisions and ensuring those changes are sustainable and measurable.
It’s a long term process and believing in
a community’s vision.
To encourage community involvement and strengthen the link between community and school.
Emphasise strength- based approach
Partnership and sharing vision

3. What is the Passport System?
The Passport System was designed to:
Be a rewards-based system to encourage participation at schools
Increase the engagement of parents/volunteers and students within the school
Promote active involvement
Help address issue of absenteeism
Enhance trust and respect amongst community members through mutual sharing

5. How does it work? 2 main components
Inform Parents and Sign up
Awareness raising
Step 1
Parent/ volunteer completes activity
Step 2
Locally monitored – Chaplain, Registrar
Points stamped in Passport
Step 3
Passport System To increase the level of active participation of parents/carers in the school community through a reward-based incentive system.
Attendance System
To provide an attendance reward system for the students with the lowest attendance rates in the school.

6. Community Consultation School info session
The Process
Phase 1
Community Consultation
School info session
Phase 2
Implement
Parent sessions
Phase 3
Evaluation
University of UWA
This process becomes the cornerstone of our practice – and is represented through the following data

7. Breakdown of Expenditure of School Dollars 2010

8. (Snapshot – Learning Journey 2009) (Snapshot – Learning Journey 2010)
Testimonials
At a regional school south-east of Perth, 90 families out of 166 are participants in the Passport Program:
‘I can now contribute to the school in a way I never could.’
‘It’s great to be acknowledged for what we already do.’
‘I love being able to donate my points to someone else or to go towards a book award’.
‘I have chosen to be involved with the Passport system so I think it is worthwhile’.
Parent Participation
(Snapshot – Learning Journey 2009)
Whole school
60%
Non-Aboriginal
67%
Aboriginal
10%
Parent Participation
(Snapshot – Learning Journey 2010)
Whole school
90%
Non-Aboriginal
95%
Aboriginal
50%

9. Attendance Stories: Student Snapshots
Student A
1 FEB - 2 JUL 2010
47.37%
20 JUL - 24 NOV 2010
64.00%
Student B
1 FEB - 2 JUL 2010
74.74%
Student C
20 JUL - 4 NOV 2010
90.30%
1 FEB - 2 JUL 2010
74.74%
20 JUL - 4 NOV 2010
95.59%
Student D
81.00%
19 APR – 24 NOV 2010
71.00%
1 FEB – 1 APR 2010

10. Neerigen Brook Primary School Attendance Results after Implementation of the Passport System 2009
NB Students Q and R suffered extreme changes in home circumstances during implementation of the Passport System

11. Family Involvement in the Passport System Term 3 2010
For both Katanning Primary School and Katanning Senior High School only Aboriginal Families are eligible for Passports.
Open to whole school as at Term

13. Other Projects: Sports Passport
Members of Sporting Clubs and Recreation Centres can earn points for volunteering. May include coaching, umpiring, scoring, helping at sporting events and community days, attending information sessions or courses.
These points are used to pay for uniforms, membership fees, travel costs and other costs associated with playing sport.
The program is designed to:
Enhance the relationship between schools, sporting clubs, Rec Centres and local communities.
Use sport and recreation as a vehicle to help address social and justice issues in our communities.

14. English as Second Language/Dialect (ESL/ESD) Passport
We have just completed translating a “Guide to the Passport System” booklet into 12 of the most common languages in schools in conjunction with the Department of Education’s ESL Resource Centre.
This will allow schools to benefit from the wealth of knowledge and skills of ESL/ESD parents and community members and provide an avenue for ESL/ESD parents to become involved in their child’s school and education, and also to the wider community.
Available to all schools
Languages include: Arabic, Burmese, Karen, Swahili, Tagalog, Indonesian, Dari, Malaysia, Chinese, Thai, Hindi and Tamil.

15. Justice Link Passport
Providing a path through which the offender can financially assist their children in their school.
Providing a link between the parent in the correctional facility and his/her children.
Incarcerated parent earns up to $25 per week through involvement in activities over and above their current workload.
Correctional Facilities: Acacia, Wooroloo, Karnett, Bunbury, Boronia, Albany, Casuarina.