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Table 3. Community Centre
INFORMATION
Community Centre
1
Environment
Locally-based in a new suburb at the boundaries of existing
suburban network Located close to a rail-line
2
Disciplines involved
Health services Human services - counselling, aged care, youth
Sports services Legal services Management of Centre
2
External Relations
Government/Regulators
Local community is mixed culturally, ethnically and age-wise
3
History
Aim is to create a community centre to bring diverse groups
together
4
Structure
Local government plus private businesses operate within
centre
5
Culture
Opportunity to create a new set of values and culture
6
Decision-making process
Mix government and private Centre Management to be em-
ployed
7
Work Organisation
Each service is creating appropriate work organisation with
new employees
8
Resources
Decisions as to employment levels of resources needed to be
decided
regulations governing individual and community
services. The local Council requires the Commu-
nity Centre to operate with the aim of bringing
the culturally diverse community together and
creating a new set of value and culture for the
new suburb.
The Community Centre is operating with
limited capacity at present, chiefly through the
provision of children's services, counselling
services and legal aid representatives. An exter-
nal company has been appointed to operate the
Sports and Leisure Centre. The Board has recently
appointed a large Not-for-Profit organisation to
manage the Virtual Centre.
The VSLE is accessible across the university as
both a means of engaging students in typical activi-
ties involved in providing the range of discipline-
related services and to explore inter-professional
engagement. This will require students to operate
at the intersection of a number of professionals,
across and beyond human services.
The first Scenario designed for student en-
gagement in this Virtual Community Centre
involves discussion and negotiation between the
existing human and legal services personnel and
the organisation contracted to run the sports and
leisure complex to develop and market a proposal
for a Healthy Life-Style Management Strategy
for members of the community that is culturally
sensitive. This is a real-world challenge that does
require a holistic approach to inter-professional
engagement. It includes social work, youth work,
aged care, community and health care services. In
addition the example identifies the potential for
this VSLE to also involve students from outside
human services to include legal aid, sport man-
agement, advertising, marketing, public relations
(as an example).
Figure 3 identifies the constructive align-
ment designed to engage students in activities
around this scenario. The employability skills
chosen for demonstration in this example include
communication, teamwork, problem-solving,
innovation and self management. The ICT based
activities chosen include WIKIs and BLOGs for
open discussion board, on-line role-play and
simulation for problem-solving and negotiations
between differing discipline views, e-journals
 
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