Training Needs Analysis For Aboriginal Communities
Waltja has a Standard Procedure for Training Needs Analysis for Aboriginal Client Communities. Waltja conducts assessment of communities’ training needs in Annual General Meetings, in other Management Committee meetings, and in the course of project work. Waltja has also conducted formal Training Needs Assessment Workshops with remote communities across Central Australia .

Waltja Model for Training Needs Analysis
• Request is received from community for training needs analysis

• Manager/Exec Committee consider request and approve field staff to conduct analysis

• Field staff contact community and arrange visit

• Field staff visit community. Meet with Council/Women's Centre workers to establish meeting venue and arrange assistance in facilitating meeting. Local workers employed as facilitators/translators. Separate meetings arranged with men and women wherever possible. Non-Aboriginal people canvassed for community training needs identification separately. Meetings restricted to Anangu only wherever possible.

• Field workers return to office. Prepare report of training needs identified by community with photographs. Training needs listed in order of community priority.

• Report distributed to community, training providers and, where applicable, funding bodies.

• Field workers follow up with training providers to try and arrange community visits about specific training programs identified by the community (Waltja may be the training provider for some courses). Where feasible, field staff visit community with service providers to assist in enrolment process across a range of training courses.

• After a suitable interval, field staff follow up with community and training providers to establish what training has actually been facilitated.

• Follow up report prepared detailing outcomes of training needs analysis and distributed to community, training providers and funding bodies.

• Advise appropriate Training Advisory Council where identified need is unmet.

• Consider possible extension to scope of registration to address identified unmet needs.