Staffing Staffing of the programs varies and includes special education teachers, teachers, social workers, psychologists, teacher aides, residential care workers, psychiatrists, family therapists, nurses and art therapists and a recreation officer. YWCA Darwin utilises volunteers in their mentoring strategy. Infrastructure needed As with programs described in Chapter 2., a range of infrastructure is required by programs. The number of clients carried by the programs varies. Friends , as part of a controlled trial of this intervention.
Several programs have a waiting list.
A range of referral agencies use the programs described in this chapter. In contrast to most programs described in Chapter 2, programs depicted in this chapter have more clearly defined time frames. The Yellow Brick Road , a school based program which aims to promote resilience in children, comprises a unit of work completed over one school week and the Healthy Families Program which aims to promote mental health, constitutes a unit of school work of approximately forty hours' duration. Measuring effectiveness A number of the illustrative programs have provided information on evaluation. In general, such evaluations have been descriptive and formative in nature, reflecting, in part, the stage of development of these particular programs.