A Whitsunday organisation celebrated two impressive milestones last week on both a local and national scale.
The Whitsunday PCYC Branch invited mentors and participants from its Braking The Cycle program to a morning tea in honour of the program’s nationwide ten year anniversary last Thursday.
The program – which began its Whitsunday iteration in June this year – aims to help young people achieve their mandatory 100 hours of supervised driving and obtain their license.
The Braking The Cycle program first began in August of 2012 at two sites in Logan and Ipswich, and now 10 years later operates at 53 sites across Queensland, including the Whitsundays and Bowen.
In that time, PCYCs across the country have driven an accumulative 5,499,539 kilometres throughout the program – the equivalent of travelling to the moon and back 7.15 times.
Mentors and participants from the Whitsunday PCYC iteration of Braking The Cycle gathered to celebrate the award-winning program’s decade long run, as well as their own coinciding achievement – their first Braking The Cycle graduate.
Participant Dominic Di Benedetto became the first to Brake The Cycle at the Whitsundays PCYC just days before the 10-year birthday celebrations.
PCYC Branch Manager and Police Sergeant Billy Li said it was exciting for the local branch to see the results of what is an excellent program.
“To achieve that so close to the nationwide ten-year anniversary is just fantastic; it really highlights the hard work of our volunteers,” Sergeant Billy said.
Dominic said it helped him enormously to have the accessibility of Braking The Cycle to get him off his Ls and onto his Ps.
“It’s going to give me a lot more freedom of deciding where and when I want to go. For someone considering being a part of the program: do it,” Dominic said.
“It helped me achieve something I’ve wanted to achieve for a while. For all you learners out there, driving doesn’t have to be as scary as it seems.”
Mentors and participants from Whitsunday PCYC’s Braking The Cycle celebrating the program’s nationwide 10th anniversary
The local program also achieved a milestone – its first learner turned P plater, Dominic Di Benedetto pictured here with Police Sergeant Billy Li
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