In order to understand the safety and education needs within a community and the variables that impact upon safety and education, you need to understand the concepts of community and community resilience. These concepts are foundational and from their broad conceptual view you can plan and develop broadly applicable and more importantly for this unit, specific community safety and education activities. Given this, in assessment task one you will focus on your understanding of these core concepts and what they tell us about the safety and education needs and the variables present within a given community.

Assessment 1 is is based on your engagement with the unit content, the broader academic literature and the forum posts provided by you and your fellow students. It consists of two separate but linked sections. In Section 1, you will argue your understanding of the concept of community, and how that links to the academic literature and to the views of your fellow students. In Section 2, you will argue your understanding of the concept of community resilience, and how that links to the academic literature and to the views of your fellow students. In your response to each section, you will need to incorporate ideas from two activity posts: one of your own posts plus at least one from another student in the group.

Note: You may utilise the forum post of your fellow students to support your view or you may utilise it to contrast with your view. A copy of the selected forum posts must be included as a separate section. Sections 1) and 2) combined will be up to 1000 - 1400 words, not including the copy of the forum posts. The copy of the forum posts is therefore in addition to the word count. Importantly, your response must be supported by appropriate literature (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric).

Presentation Guidelines

Assessment one is submitted via Moodle. You are free to present the response in a written format that best suits you, however, it must include:

a) Title page

b) Response to concept of community

c) Response to the concept of community resilience

d) Direct copy of the forum posts being utilised (NOT included in word count)

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric, which is available from the Moodle site.

However, broadly you will be assessed on:

• Knowledge of the concept of community and community resilience
• Application of knowledge and skills in relation to the concept of community and community resilience
• Communication and presentation

Parliamentary inquiries seek the views of those who have an interest in the topic of the inquiry often through written submissions. Submissions come from government councils, organisations, academia and concerned individuals. Across the nation, there have been parliamentary inquiries into disaster and safety management. Inquiry submissions may contribute to future policy formations.

Assessment 2 requires you to write a 1500-1800 word parliamentary committee inquiry submission. The inquiry you are submitting to is looking to understand the breadth of safety and education activities. Safety and education examples are provided in the “Tailored Examples” page in Theme One of the Moodle site. Once selecting an activity, your submission will contain an analysis of a real-life safety and education activity and an examination of its targeted audience (whether group and/or geographic location). Your submission must be a high-level analysis, strategic in nature, sufficiently detailed with all contents supported by relevant data and literature. You must also ensure that the activity and your response are linked to the notion of safety and education in the community. As a minimum, the submission must include components:

Activity

• What is the broad aim of the activity?
• What are the key messages of the activity?
• How is the activity delivered to the target audience?
• What are the strengths and limitations of this approach?
• Why might these choices have been made (in relation to your group and/ or geographic location)?
• Briefly recommend any changes you would make to this activity as per your analysis of the activity.

Audience

• What is the target group/ and or target location of the activity?
• In what ways is the activity specifically targeted to meet the needs of the group and/or geographic location?
• Specific characteristics or attributes of the group and/or geographic location, for example (but not limited to), language, cultural characteristics, issues of mobility, geographic features such as isolation, being flood or cyclone prone and so forth.
• How do these characteristics or attributes impact or influence community safety and education for the group and/or geographic location?

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site.

Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Knowledge of community safety and education
• Skills in community safety and education
• Application of knowledge and skills in community safety and education
• Communication and presentation of knowledge and skills

Assessment 3 uses your parliamentary submission from Assessment 2 to assist you in formulating your own safety and education activity with an implementation plan. Based on the group and/or geographical location you selected, you will discuss the ways you adopt a collaborative approach to safety and education. While designing this activity and your implementation plan you should consider the following:

• What is the aim of your proposed activity?
• What are the key messages of the activity?
• Who is the target group and/ or geographic location?
• Why are your messages important, and in particular, to your chosen group and/ or location?
• What does the chosen activity look like (what are its elements)?
• Why have you proposed it to look this way (why have you selected these particular elements)?
• The implementation plan must clearly articulate a collaboration with the intended target group and/ or geographic location (and others as is appropriate). For example, what steps you propose to be taken, who will be involved in those steps. Again, using the literature, you must provide a rationale for the particular approach.

You are free to construct the response in a style that best suits you and your activity (including, if useful, images or pictures). The submitted assessment will be up to 3000 words and include as a minimum:

a) Title page;

b) Your proposed community safety and education activity and rationale; and

c) Your implementation plan for the activity and rationale for your implementation choices.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site.

However, broadly you will be assessed on:

• The analysis of contemporary community safety issues
• The design of the community safety and education activity
• The collaborative approach to safety and education
• The presentation of the written task