Beyond the Dunes: BeachCare on the Gold Coast
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BEYOND THE DUNES: BEACHCARE ON THE GOLD COAST Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - By providing opportunities for coastal communities to learn about the coast and teach them best practice techniques in dune management, broader achievements and greater long term goals can be planned, evaluated and monitored. Established in 2005, BeachCare, Gold Coast’s dune care program, has grown significantly across volunteer hours, dune care sites and events whilst management resources have remained stable. This has been possible through refining program activities, reporting and outreach effectiveness. As budgets for coastal community engagement programs like BeachCare continue to be under pressure across all local governments, the philosophy behind BeachCare may provide opportunities to enable resource growth for other coastal community engagement programs. More specifically, by adopting a goal of promoting volunteer stewardship, BeachCare has been able to support capacity needs to recruit and accommodate volunteers through the development of coastal champions. Coastal champions of BeachCare are volunteers who have developed skills in dune restoration and management, as well as, leadership to teach and lead new volunteers. Therefore, free up facilitation time and enable a bottom-up process for coastal stewardship. Joel Hayes 1 , Naomi Edwards 1 , Daniel Ware 1 Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Griffith University, Gold Coast Queensland Coastal Conference 2013 - Castles in the Sand, 2 nd Wednesday – 4 th Friday October 2013, Rydges Southbank, Townsville Community stewardship of dunes and beaches can increase the effectiveness of coastal management by promoting positive user behaviours and improving relationships among stakeholders. The establishment of community dune care groups can provide a mechanism for promoting such community stewardship of the coast. For instance, building knowledge, relationships and connections around the needs of the coast. “broader achievements and greater long term goals can be planned, evaluated & monitored” The graph above illustrates the increase of total BeachCare volunteer hours, while management resources have remained stable since 2005. Therefore, suggests the refining of program management has proven to be effective and efficient to support volunteer growth and resource needs. VOLUNTEER HOURS VS RESOURCE HOURS The graph above illustrates a conceptual stewardship model to explain the correlation between volunteer turnover and facilitation needs. As a volunteer moves along the stewardship continuum, volunteer retention increases as facilitation needs decrease. Facilitation needs CONCEPTUAL STEWARDSHIP MODEL BeachCare’s story 2005: established in partnership with the City of Gold Coast and developed of five sites through community information sessions. 2006-2008: developed reporting framework, partnerships, sourced additional funding to build capacity, maintained a minimum of 30 activities a year. 2009-2011: revised reporting framework and streamlined processes, focused on marketing and communication, integrated social media, development of supporting educational material, established 5 partnership sites. 2011: achieved national recognition in the Clean Beaches competition, established an additional parternship site, created more partnerships and educational material, streamlined reporting and facilitated internships . 2012: established partnership with Griffith University’s Student Linx, finalist in the National Landcare awards, facilitated internships, streamlined reporting and integrated monitoring. 2013: established partnership with Bond Unviersity’s Philanthrophy Council, released a new educational resource and sourced additional funding to support capacity and program demand. 2014: coastal leadership training, fine-tune evaluation and monitoring and review program goals and community needs, develop new site and summer program. For more information please contact BeachCare 07 555 28506 I [email protected] I griffith.edu.au/coastal-management facebook.com/beachcare.coasted I #Beach_Care Volunteer turnover
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A poster presented at Queensland Coastal Conference, Townsville, 2-4th October, 2013.
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BEYOND THE DUNES: BEACHCAREON THE GOLD COAST
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - By providing opportunities for coastal communities to learn about the coast and teach them best practice techniques in dune management, broader achievements and greater long term goals can be planned, evaluated and monitored.
Established in 2005, BeachCare, Gold Coast’s dune care program, has grown significantly across volunteer hours, dune care sites and events whilst management resources have remained stable. This has been possible through refining program activities, reporting and outreach effectiveness. As budgets for coastal community engagement programs like BeachCare continue to be under pressure across all local governments, the philosophy behind BeachCare may provide opportunities to enable resource growth for other coastal community engagement programs.
More specifically, by adopting a goal of promoting volunteer stewardship, BeachCare has been able to support capacity needs to recruit and accommodate volunteers through the development of coastal champions. Coastal champions of BeachCare are volunteers who have developed skills in dune restoration and management, as well as, leadership to teach and lead new volunteers. Therefore, free up facilitation time and enable a bottom-up process for coastal stewardship.
Joel Hayes1, Naomi Edwards1, Daniel Ware1
Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Griffith University, Gold CoastQueensland Coastal Conference 2013 - Castles in the Sand, 2nd Wednesday – 4th Friday October 2013, Rydges Southbank, Townsville
Community stewardship of dunes and beaches can increase the effectiveness of coastal management by promoting positive user behaviours and improving relationships among stakeholders. The establishment of community dune care groups can provide a mechanism for promoting such community stewardship of the coast. For instance, building knowledge, relationships and connections around the needs of the coast.
“broader achievements and greater long term goals can be planned, evaluated & monitored”
The graph above illustrates the increase of total BeachCare
volunteer hours, while management resources have
remained stable since 2005. Therefore, suggests the
refining of program management has proven to be
effective and efficient to support volunteer growth and
resource needs.
VOLUNTEER HOURS VS RESOURCE HOURS
The graph above illustrates a conceptual stewardship model to explain the correlation between volunteer turnover and facilitation needs. As a volunteer moves along the stewardship continuum, volunteer retention increases as facilitation needs decrease.
Facilitation needs
CONCEPTUAL STEWARDSHIP MODEL
BeachCare’s story2005: established in partnership with the City of Gold Coast and developed of five sites through community information sessions.2006-2008: developed reporting framework, partnerships, sourced additional funding to build capacity, maintained a minimum of 30 activities a year.2009-2011: revised reporting framework and streamlined processes, focused on marketing and communication, integrated social media, development of supporting educational material, established 5 partnership sites.
2011: achieved national recognition in the Clean Beaches competition, established an additional parternship site, created more partnerships and educational material, streamlined reporting and facilitated internships.2012: established partnership with Griffith University’s Student Linx, finalist in the National Landcare awards, facilitated internships, streamlined reporting and integrated monitoring.2013: established partnership with Bond Unviersity’s Philanthrophy Council, released a new educational resource and sourced additional funding to support capacity and program demand.
2014: coastal leadership training, fine-tune evaluation and monitoring and review program goals and community needs, develop new site and summer program.For more information please contact BeachCare 07 555 28506 I [email protected] I griffith.edu.au/coastal-managementfacebook.com/beachcare.coasted I #Beach_Care
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