Our Program
Mentor Training
CHASE prepares for program delivery through mentor recruitment, training, and partnership coordination. Mentors complete workshops on facilitation, safeguarding, and youth engagement to ensure they’re confident guiding students through sensitive health topics.
The CHASE Program follows a three-year co-design cycle, strengthened by annual focus groups that elevate student voices and keep the program responsive to community needs.
Prior to delivering workshops in schools, CHASE mentors attend a 3-day mandatory training and induction. These sessions provide mentors with the knowledge, educational materials, and tools to deliver workshops effectively. Training also focuses on personal development, leadership, and facilitation skills, and allows mentors to collaborate with CHASE committee members and peers.
Education Phase
Students explore key health and wellbeing topics through workshops co-delivered with mentors and community partners.
Topics include:
Life Skills, Alcohol & Other Drugs, Climate Change, Mental Health, Nutrition & Physical Activity
Prior to delivering workshops in schools, CHASE mentors attend a 3-day mandatory training and induction. These sessions provide mentors with the knowledge, educational materials, and tools to deliver workshops effectively. Training also focuses on personal development, leadership, and facilitation skills, and allows mentors to collaborate with CHASE committee members and peers.
Project Phase
Students apply their learning by designing and delivering their own community health projects. During this stage, CHASE committee members support schools in preparing for project delivery, coordinating logistics, and connecting students with relevant community partners.
Fun Fact: All community projects are student-led, meaning that students are responsible for identifying a relevant community challenge, building partnerships with local organisations, fundraising, designing an innovative solution and executing it.
The Project Phase brings together students, schools, and community partners to create real-world impact. Through these partnerships, students gain hands-on experience in collaboration, communication, and leadership while contributing to meaningful local initiatives.
Showcase
The program culminates in the CHASE Showcase, where students present their projects to peers, teachers, community organisations, and local leaders. It’s a celebration of learning, creativity, and community impact.
Project highlight:
A Copperfield College team raised $480 and collected 2,400 cans to support Hope Street Youth and Family Services.
Prior to delivering workshops in schools, CHASE mentors attend a 3-day mandatory training and induction. These sessions provide mentors with the knowledge, educational materials, and tools to deliver workshops effectively. Training also focuses on personal development, leadership, and facilitation skills, and allows mentors to collaborate with CHASE committee members and peers.
How We Know Our Program Works
At CHASE, we are committed to evidence-based impact. We actively monitor and evaluate our program to ensure it delivers meaningful outcomes for students, mentors, and the wider community.
Each year, our team analyses student feedback, mentor reflections, and partner insights to measure what works and to identify ways to make our program even stronger.
97% of students reported increased confidence in discussing health topics.
9 in 10 mentors said CHASE improved their leadership and communication skills.
Over 3,000 students reached across 15 schools since 2013.
Explore our yearly M & E reports below to learn more about our impact, insights, and improvements.
Annual Reports
Strategic Plan
Evaluation Reports
Impact Reports
Awards & Recognition
2016
Recipient of Minister for Health Volunteer Awards for Outstanding Achievement By A Volunteer: INNOVATION
2018
Recipient of Brimbank City Council’s We Are Brimbank Awards for Learning Excellence
2020
Recipient of the Victorian Government Group Achievement in the Community Award
2023
Finalist
NFP Leadership of
Australian Scholarships Foundations
