Community Participation Guarantee (CPG)

CPG MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A FOUNDATION CITIZENSHIP PROGRAM  SYDNEY, NSW 9.00am March 31, 1999 - CPG has submitted a community interest group submission to the Australian Citizenship Council’s Issues Paper and Call for Submissions.  “This year marks the 50th anniversary of Australian Citizenship, and CPG is delighted to provide our community petition for improved citizenship programs” Judith Lee, Executive Officer of Q Base Trust and CPG, said. Citizenship advocacy is concerned with improving civics education across all levels of the public education and adult education systems. The CPG submission drafted in consultation with leading education experts, focuses on themes of Australia as a multicultural society and a post-modern nation that allows Australians to better appreciate and celebrate their citizenship.”  “Considering notions of national identity, the principal issue to explore is ‘what motivates a person to become a citizen?’ The CPG advisory team have structur...

THE FRONTLINES OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY When Community Participation Guarantee (CPG) received an appeal from Sydney’s Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) sector in 1998, the idea was felicitous for uptake as part of CPG’s model community action campaign. Today the LanguageWorks (LWP) Project forms a key pillar of CPG Projects, a suite of pilot projects to test the market viability of the social action campaign’s ‘guarantee’ concept. CPG makes no hubris that its public advocacy platform converges to an unprecedented initiative in collective social action or a new global class action style of campaigning. A spokesperson for CPG says that CPG’s LanguageWorks Project has become symbolic of the non-denominational, social inclusion and guarantee venture currently being trialled in the Sydney Metropolitan area. Their program delivery is based on a community action ethos of practical approaches to client-centered empowerment. “Language and literacy skills are now expected from every member ...