Cape York Leaders Program The Cape York Leaders Program (CYLP) supports the development of current and future leaders. The program’s Academic Leaders are offered scholarships to attend Queensland secondary schools and tertiary institutions across Australia and also includes more than 400 Leaders who were supported and nurtured through the Adult Leaders’ People Excellence Phases (Youth, Skilling and Excelling Phases), which ceased in 2019. Academic Secondary and Tertiary Leaders receive extensive support from dedicated CYLP staff. The program is also guided by the Steering Committee, which is populated by alumni members from the Academic and Adult Leaders’ phases. They play a central role in ensuring CYLP remains relevant and continues to provide high-quality support to Leaders.
MEMBERSHIP
1291 Academic Leaders were members of CYLP at some point between July–December. At the end of December, 116 Leaders were on the program.
83% of our Academic Leaders have been with the Program for
TOTAL CYLP ACADEMIC LEADERS 2014 TO 2020 120 100 80
two or more years.
60
This year’s Academic Secondary cohort included 28 new Leaders
40
to the program. At the end of December, our Program retention
20
rates2 were 92% for Academic Secondary Leaders and 78%
0
for Academic Tertiary Leaders.
Our Leaders have cultural connections across Cape York, Cairns and Yarrabah. They orbit from these areas to board at Queensland’s high-quality secondary and tertiary institutions throughout Australia. By orbiting across the state, these Leaders are learning to walk, with confidence,
40
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
33
30 20
In December 2020, 57% (n=73) of our Leaders were from
10
Coen, Hope Vale and Mossman Gorge.
2014
ACADEMIC LEADERS’ HOME COMMUNITIES 2020
in two worlds. the Cape York Welfare Reform communities of Aurukun,
Tertiary
Secondary
17
14 13
9 9
Hop e Va le Mo ssm an Coe n Yarr aba h Aur uku n Bam aga Coo ktow n Cair ns Por mp uraa w Torr es S trait We ipa Map oon Palm Is/A uruk un Hele nva le Kow any ama Lau ra Loc kha rt R iver Nap ranu Nor m ther n Te rrito ry Wu jal W ujal
0
7 5 4 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
PARTNER SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES Our Leaders attend a range of highly respected secondary and tertiary institutions across Australia. NUMBER OF ACADEMIC LEADERS ATTENDING PARTNER SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES 2020
4
4
4
3
2
2
2
1
1
1 Monash University
5
Griffith University
5
ACU
6
University of Western Australia
7
Cooktown High School
7
Bond University - Gold Coast
Rockhampton Grammar School
Peace Lutheran College Cairns
The Cathedral School
Stuartholme School
Marist College Ashgrove
St Peters Lutheran College
0
Djarragun College
5
Brisbane Grammar School
8
St Teresa’s Catholic College
8
St Brendan’s College
9
Columba Catholic College
9
Clayfield College
9
Brisbane Boys College
10
Rockhampton Girls Grammar
13
15
JCU
19
QUT
20
1 At the end of December, there were 102 Academic Secondary Leaders and 14 Academic Tertiary Leaders. 129 students were members of CYLP at some point between July and December 2020, with nine Academic Secondary Leaders and four Academic Tertiary Leaders exiting the program. 2 Retention rates are for the period 1 July–31 December 2020.
31
