TIRKANDI INABURRA

The Roles and Responsibilities of Sponsors

A Sponsor must be committed to supporting and contributing to the participant’s case management during the program if required and on exit from the program.

Applicants may be sponsored by a family or community member or by a government or non-government agency. Their role and responsibilities are listed below. Where these apply only to sponsoring agencies rather than family/community sponsors these are followed by **.

Before acceptance into the program sponsors are responsible for:

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Identifying young people who are suitable for Tirkandi Inaburra’s program.
Check under the Centre’s Guidelines for the eligibility criteria.
Consulting with Tirkandi Inaburra re the general suitability of the young person to the program and the availability of places in the program
Providing the young person with information about Tirkandi Inaburra and consulting with the young person to ensure that the young person is interested in making application to Tirkandi Inaburra
Ensuring the applicant has a clear understanding of Tirkandi Inaburra’s philosophy, purpose, assessment criteria and activities which will be available from Tirkandi Inaburra or online at www.tirkandi.org.au
Consulting the family / guardian / carer to ensure that they also support the application to Tirkandi Inaburra and your sponsorship of the applicant
Submission of a completed Sponsorship Form that has attached the required signed consent forms by the applicant’s legal guardian, and medical history
Providing Tirkandi Inaburra with all relevant background information and reports so that Tirkandi Inaburra can properly assess the applicant’s suitability, case manage and risk manage the applicant if he is excepted into the program and identifying and recommending sustainable support strategies following his exit from the program **
Entering into a formal interagency partnerships with Tirkandi Inaburra if required (eg. MOU with DoCS re CMART model) **

Tirkandi Inaburra strongly encourages sponsors to visit the Centre with the young person or accompany the young person to a Graduation Day which is held the last Wednesday of each school term so that he might see the environment in which he will be living for the next 3-6 months if he is accepted into the program.

During the program sponsors are responsible for:

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Being available for ongoing liaison with Tirkandi Inaburra in relation to the participant’s progress at the Centre
Visiting the Centre as required to encourage and support the participant and attending the participant’s Graduation Ceremony at completion of the program
Being available and participating in formulating the Individual Exit Plan for the participant you have sponsored
Participating in multi-agency conferences to negotiate exit plans (usually via teleconference) **
Delivering programs relating to your agency’s core business, for example; **
• Health Services – health assessments, Doctor (AMS), workshops on boys / men’s
• health, drug and alcohol education, etc
• DJJ - ongoing supervision / case management of DJJ clients
• DoCS - ongoing Case Management role with DoCS clients
• Land Councils / Aboriginal Organisations - cultural activities, Elders programs,
• arts and craft programs
• Department of Sport & Recreation - sports programs

Following graduation from the program sponsors are responsible for:

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Undertaking a lead agency / primary support role in the exit plan
Actively participating in a whole of government approach to the provision of support for young people **
If chosen by the participant being available to mentor the participant on exit from the Centre
Promoting the program to other relevant staff within the agency **

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