Natural Heritage Trust Skills Toolkit

A practical toolkit for people working or volunteering in Natural Heritage Trust or other community-based programs.

The Natural Heritage Trust Skills Tool Kit has its origins in the National Landcare Program. In the mid 1990s a number of Landcare related reviews recommended that improved education and training be provided to individuals working in natural resource management.

Since mid-1997, an extensive development process was undertaken involving consultation with representatives of all major stakeholders in the Trust's work. The result is a set of units of competency that define the standards of work performed by volunteers, community group leaders, group and project coordinators and regional facilitators in Natural Heritage Trust programs. As well, the Project established how the standards can be packaged to produce qualifications.

But the project is not just about training and qualifications, important as these are in a vocational sense to people in the natural resource management industry. It embraces a much broader notion of skills development for a range of purposes such as personal interest, professional development, program planning, setting group objectives and community development.

The Skills Tool Kit comprises:

The Tool Kit Manual

This introduces the Skill Tool Kit, its various components and describes how thye can be used to develop the skills of those involved in natural Heritage Trust programs and similar community-based programs.

The Skills Planner

Guides your skills developmne planning progcess. It will prove valuabel to individuals, whether volunteers or employed, wishing to develop their skills, and to leaders and groups planning the skills development or training of teams and groups.

A summary of units that make up the Skills Tool Kit

The Natural Heritage Trust Skills Tool Kit

For further information

Contact	:	Natural Heritage Trust
Phone	:	+1800 026 222

WWW

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http://www.nht.gov.au/skills/toolkit1.html