Dallas Woods

Personal Development - Youth Trainee IHHP Artist

Every Community that we are facilitating our weeklong projects we are identifying and listing potential leaders that could have the confidence and the desire to be trained as hiphop leaders. They will get the opportunity to work along side us and tour with us, attend leadership Camps and be mentored into sustaining the IHHP full time within there community. Whilst in Wyndham as a part of the East Kimberly tour we identified a young Indigenous 15 year old male called Dallas Woods who was at the cross roads of his young life. He had dropped out of school and after meeting wit his mother was looking for an opportunity to step up and escape the pressures of temptation and self-destructive environment that he was in.

IHHP saw much talent and passion in Dallas and with the assistance of beyondblue and many other partners offered Dallas the experience and opportunity of a lifetime. To Dallas’s credit he not only stepped up as a young leader but he proved to be a invaluable asset to the team being able to instantly connect and build relationships with kids and give peer support and be a positive role model for young indigenous peoples.

Background:

Dallas comes from a remote area of Western Australia called Wyndham. He has been working for IHHP for about 12 months and been to:

• Warbarton Community – March 2010
• Torres Strait Islands QLD – February 2010
• Katherine – February 2010
• Melbourne – Spirit Fest – January – 2010
• Warmun WA
• Halls Creek
• Billalluna
• Melbourne La Trobe
• Port Hedland
• Onslow
• beyondblue Youth Forum
• Shepparton
• Port Augusta
• Wangkatjanka
• Roe Buck Primary
• Derby
• Broome
• Beagle Bay
• Wyndham

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