Back on Track: Positive Attention to Road Safety and Behaviour Change using the Power of Theatre
Planz Town Planning, JUTE Theatre Company, Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council, Isaac Drandic (playwright)
This original program delivers innovative messages and engages effectively with the communities that it is targeting and is deserving of the Award. Through the Dare to Dream Program, young people learn about road safety and citizenship through performances featuring positive stories about Indigenous experience and Indigenous professionals as role models.
The educational materials are clear, the engagement with vulnerable youth is to be applauded and the approach Jute Theatre uses is original. Road safety, and in particular motorbike safety, is paramount in rural and remote communities. The real value to communities is that children produce an outcome to share with the community, engaging with the whole school community and talking about safety.
The fact that it has been touring for five (5) years and is changing lives is to be applauded and that’s what good planning should deliver. The recognition of the opportunity to improve social outcomes by the Council’s Planning Consultant, demonstrates the value that planning can play to enhance community wellbeing. The importance of recognising that planning contributes to public value by demonstrating the importance of road safety to the wellbeing of more than just an individual, cannot be understated. Planners can ensure community wellbeing by understanding the opportunities and bringing diverse groups together, not only to deliver land use planning outcomes, but importantly to improve community wellbeing too.
Given the success of this project and the fact that it has been delivering innovative outcomes to support vulnerable members in disadvantaged communities this project is recognised by the 91porn for its contribution to improving community wellbeing and diversity.