Success Stories
Skill shortages/employment
- Freight Train - the road to success in transport and distribution
- Frankston Mornington Peninsula Local Learning and Employment Networks Top Jobs
- Outer Eastern LLEN Assists Local Youth to Switch on to the Power Industry
- Overcoming Wangaratta Skills Shortages
- Increasing Rural Skills
- Inspiring Young Gippslanders
- ReTALE Melbourne: Retelling troubled lives
- Local network promotes uptake of Australian School-based Apprenticeships
- Pavilion - helping young people get back to school
- Wetlands Field Day - a taste of the future
- Linking schools and the community to manage precious resources
- Getting a Head Start to be Work Ready
- Opening up the world of work to younger students
Freight Train - the road to success in transport and distribution
Freight Train is the brainchild of Origin Training Solutions who worked closely with Inner Northern LLEN and Hume Whittlesea LLEN to develop the project and get it up and running.
Year 11 and 12 students doing an Australian School Based Apprenticeship at Freight Train get on-the-job training, relevant skills and experience, part-time paid work, a nationally recognised qualification, mentorship and advocacy, and the opportunity to meet potential employers like Blue Circle, and Kuehne and Nagel.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Frankston Mornington Peninsula Local Learning and Employment Networks Top Jobs
Frankston Mornington Peninsula Local Learning and Employment Network's Top Jobs partnership aims to improve the employment outcomes of young people by promoting transitions to full time, sustainable employment in areas of skills shortages. Top Jobs is a response to the high levels of young people leaving school in Frankston Mornington Peninsula LLEN for part time and casual work in industries with poor long term opportunities. At this time 90 young people have participated in some way in the initiative.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Outer Eastern LLEN Assists Local Youth to Switch on to the Power Industry
Collaboration between Outer Eastern LLEN and the Baw Baw Latrobe LLEN has provided 15 local students with an amazing opportunity to learn first hand about the power industry.
The career education program, VEET (Victorian Energy Education and Training), is sponsored by SP Aus Net (Victoria's largest energy provider) and allows each student to be involved in a comprehensive career education program in which they obtain first hand working experience and training in Victoria's energy networks and begin to develop skills relevant to pursuing a career in the energy industry.
The program originated as a result of chronic skills shortages in the industry. Most of the Outer Eastern LLEN students are undertaking related VET programs, in such areas as Electrotechnology or Telecommunications (Cabling) - the VEET program is very complementary to these studies.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Overcoming Wangaratta Skills Shortages
The state government's Technical Education Centre (TEC) initiative aims to produce "work ready" students while overcoming chronic skills shortages.
The new Wangaratta TEC is one of only four in Victoria. Wangaratta was chosen largely because of the work of NE TRACKS LLEN, which brokered and facilitated close cooperation between local government, the education sector, industry and the community.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Increasing Rural Skills
The Rural Skills Project is opening up options for young Victorians who are most at risk of leaving school before Year 12. This ambitious project aims to overcome labour skills shortages in rural Victoria and help young people from Melbourne and the state's southwest increase their employment options while re-engaging in learning.
The project involves a cross-regional partnership between two LLENs based hundreds of kilometres apart - the South West LLEN and WynBay LLEN.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Inspiring Young Gippslanders
Inspiring Young People promotes employment and career pathways for young people in Latrobe City and Baw Baw Shire - an area of Gippsland where youth unemployment levels have been persistently high for more than a decade.
The initiative is the brainchild of the Baw Baw Latrobe LLEN and comprises three separate but similar programs: Inspiring Young Women, Inspiring Young Koorie Women - Malle Worrcut, and Straightalk.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
ReTALE Melbourne: Retelling troubled lives
ReTALE Melbourne is designed to put disadvantaged 15-19 year olds back on track, giving them practical, accredited training and work experience in the retail and hospitality industries while building their self-esteem and encouraging them to take responsibility for their own actions.
Capital City LLEN did the initial groundwork brokering partnerships and developing the program, while the CAE will actually deliver it, with support from the Victoria Police, the Salvation Army, Melbourne City Mission, Crown Casino, Spotless Catering, The Body Shop and the City of Melbourne.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Local network promotes uptake of Australian School-based Apprenticeships
Bayside Glen Eira Kingston LLEN brought together 24 organisations to support, coordinate and promote Australian School-based Apprenticeships (ASBAs) in Melbourne's bayside suburbs.
Working collaboratively - by sharing knowledge and resources - the group identified strategies for increasing enrolments and marketing ASBAs to potential employers and students. It has developed regional promotional materials, such as postcards, and established and maintained an online portal for ASBA information and vacancies.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Pavilion - helping young people get back to school
Banyule Nillumbik LLEN was instrumental in setting up Pavilion, an innovative program in West Heidelberg for 15-19-year olds who, most probably, would never have finished school. Most of the 32 participants in the program had been out of the education system for a long time.
By combining personal development with academic training in a supportive, case-managed setting, Pavilion helps these young people progress to full-time employment, further education or training.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Wetlands Field Day - a taste of the future
Glenelg and Southern Grampians LLEN is working to overcome a shortage of local employees trained in the environmental sciences by generating career and education pathways for young people.
Part of the LLEN's strategy was "Sample the Environment - Wetlands Field Day", a hands-on, practical experience for about 100 students, careers advisors and VET teachers from several local schools.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Linking schools and the community to manage precious resources
Murray Mallee LLEN has been a key player in the Schools-Community Water Resource Project (SCWRP), which reconnects young people with learning while strengthening community connectedness.
SCWRP uses a partnership approach to deliver applied learning for secondary school students at risk of not finishing school. These young people follow a school-based curriculum but in a practical setting focusing on sustainable management of natural resources.
SCWRP has been very successful. In its first three years, 94% of over 220 participants stayed in education, training or employment.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Getting a Head Start to be Work Ready
Work Ready and Head Start are hands-on training programs for young people that were initiated by the South Gippsland Bass Coast LLEN to help address the shortage of casual workers that employers throughout the Bass Coast and South Gippsland Shires face every summer.
Participants learn a range of skills such as food handling, the basics of making a good espresso coffee, customer service, cash handling, working in a team and effective communication.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Opening up the world of work to younger students
Smart Geelong Region LLEN was instrumental in setting up Project 729 in Manufacturing which encourages Year 7-9 students in the Greater Geelong Region to consider manufacturing as a career.
By linking schools with local manufacturers, P729 introduces students to the world of work early on, so they don't cut off their options by dropping crucial subjects in their senior years.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships
Freight Train - the road to success in transport and distribution
Freight Train is the brainchild of Origin Training Solutions who worked closely with Inner Northern LLEN and Hume Whittlesea LLEN to develop the project and get it up and running.
Year 11 and 12 students doing an Australian School Based Apprenticeship at Freight Train get on-the-job training, relevant skills and experience, part-time paid work, a nationally recognised qualification, mentorship and advocacy, and the opportunity to meet potential employers like Blue Circle, and Kuehne and Nagel.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
INLLEN School-based Apprenticeship (ASbA) Resource Project
The ASbA Resources Project was developed in 2008 and updated in 2009as a strategy to increase the uptake of ASbAs, apprenticeships and traineeships by young people in the Inner North. Inner Northern LLEN identified the guide to build the profile of ASbAs as a viable pathway into further training and employment, provide effective resources in the region and establish partnerships between training providers, schools, government and industry.
To assist schools to promote, integrate and facilitate ASbAs, the 2008/2009 ASbA Guide was produced and distributed to Inner Northern LLEN’s 30 secondary schools as a prelude to an expo. Aimed at students, parents and teachers, the resource brought together information about the opportunities available from more than 30 organisations in industries ranging from automotive to transport and distribution.
Project sponsors - Apprenticeships Plus, CMC Training at Work, IEGT, Australian Industry Group Training Services, Elly Lukas, Kangan Batman TAFE, Pivot Point International Academy, Souvlaki Hut, Sutton Group, Swinburne University and Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Local network promotes uptake of Australian School-based Apprenticeships
Bayside Glen Eira Kingston LLEN brought together 24 organisations to support, coordinate and promote Australian School-based Apprenticeships (ASBAs) in Melbourne's bayside suburbs.
Working collaboratively - by sharing knowledge and resources - the group identified strategies for increasing enrolments and marketing ASBAs to potential employers and students. It has developed regional promotional materials, such as postcards, and established and maintained an online portal for ASBA information and vacancies.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
INLLEN Australian School-based Apprenticeship (ASbA) Research Project
In May 2008 Inner Northern LLEN initiated an Action Research Project to research the effectiveness of the ASbA model in delivering positive outcomes for young people in the Darebin, Moreland and Yarra areas.
This involved surveying young people undertaking ASBAs, facilitated focus groups and the development of case studies with young people who were undertaking or had completed their school-based traineeship. The project also surveyed key stakeholders involved in the ASbA Coordination process eg schools, employers, RTOs, GTOs and AACs. This was done to gain both qualitative and quantitative information about the benefits and challenges of the current ASbA model.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Mentoring
- CHALLENGE - Reconnecting disengaged youth and young offenders
- Inner Eastern LLEN Youth Mentoring - Matching up for a win-win experience
- The Gateway and Inner Eastern Local Learning and Employment Network Young Offenders Initiative
- South Gippsland Bass Coast LLEN mentoring program
- Inspiring Young Gippslanders
- Pavilion - helping young people get back to school
- Koorie Pathways Project
- S4 Alliance - linking education with industry
CHALLENGE - Reconnecting disengaged youth and young offenders
Brimbank Melton LLEN has been instrumental in establishing CHALLENGE programs in Melbourne's Western Region.
"Joe" really hated high school and wanted to leave. The 16-year old Melton boy had no support at home and very little that he could identify at school. He rarely did any schoolwork, lacked self-esteem and had a negative outlook.
But Joe's life turned around in early 2006 when he joined a Challenge program run by Brimbank Youth Services YMCA.
Students most at risk of leaving school and young people aged 15-19 who have already left school but are disengaged from both education and employment, are given key learning and life skills.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Inner Eastern LLEN Youth Mentoring - Matching up for a win-win experience
Every year people from our community give their time to mentor young people who need some support. The benefits for both are as many and different as the people in the program. Every story is unique.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
The Gateway and Inner Eastern Local Learning and Employment Network Young Offenders Initiative
The Gateway LLEN and Inner Eastern LLEN brokered a partnership with Victoria Police, Monash Youth and Family Services, Whitehorse Youth Services and Boroondara Youth Services to implement a program that will assist young people who offend, to connect with local support services as an alternative to court attendance. The programs primary aim is to provide participants with access and support to local services and to assist them to remain engaged or re-engage with education. The program is also designed to provide the opportunity to follow up and contact/or track the young people at relevant stages. This is a 12 month pilot program that commenced on the 2nd February 2009.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
South Gippsland Bass Coast LLEN mentoring program
In 2004 a collaborative partnership was facilitated between the South Gippsland Bass Coast LLEN (SGBCLLEN) and the Bass Coast Community Foundation Ltd, supported by the Williamson Foundation to develop a mentoring program for students enrolled in an Out of School Community VCAL program.
In 2006 a pilot program commenced. The successful pilot continued the mentoring program in 2007 and was expanded to include one-on-one mentoring with Year 9 students from Wonthaggi Secondary College and Newhaven College. In 2008 the program was further expanded to include Leongatha Secondary College.
Since the commencement of the mentoring program very clear and positive changes in behaviour, attitude and confidence of students have been observed. An evaluation of the program by school and mentors indicated an increase in community capacity and social inclusion. Since 2006, the program has involved a number of local businesses, 40 trained mentors and 43 young people. Considerable reduction in the social costs of disengaged young people to the Bass Coast community has also been reported.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Inspiring Young Gippslanders
Inspiring Young People promotes employment and career pathways for young people in Latrobe City and Baw Baw Shire - an area of Gippsland where youth unemployment levels have been persistently high for more than a decade.
The initiative is the brainchild of the Baw Baw Latrobe LLEN and comprises three separate but similar programs: Inspiring Young Women, Inspiring Young Koorie Women - Malle Worrcut, and Straightalk.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Pavilion - helping young people get back to school
Banyule Nillumbik LLEN was instrumental in setting up Pavilion, an innovative program in West Heidelberg for 15-19-year olds who, most probably, would never have finished school. Most of the 32 participants in the program had been out of the education system for a long time.
By combining personal development with academic training in a supportive, case-managed setting, Pavilion helps these young people progress to full-time employment, further education or training.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Koorie Pathways Project
Launched in early 2007, the Koorie Pathways Project provides focussed, one-on-one support to about 70 young Koories at secondary schools across the region. The Koorie Pathways Project is a partnership between NE TRACKS LLEN, the Hume Region Department of Education & Early Childhood Development and seven schools in Benalla, Mansfield and Wangaratta.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
S4 Alliance - linking education with industry
The S4 Alliance is forging better ties between industry and education in Melbourne's South East to help overcome skills shortages and enable young people to find work more easily and locally. It was brokered in 2006 by South East LLEN.
Activity outcomes include an education-industry leaders' breakfast, school principal tours of local businesses, and SaM Day (Shadow a Manufacturer), which links school leaders with industry leaders in order to explore common goals and potential ongoing partnerships.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
VCAL
Community VCAL fills a gap
Nillumbik Community VCAL offers young people most at risk of disengaging from the education system a chance to continue in a less stressful, more flexible atmosphere.
Managed by the Banyule Nillumbik LLEN in partnership with Viewbank College and the Shire of Nillumbik, the Eltham-based program follows a holistic approach, supporting students with both education and welfare issues.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Inner Northern LLEN VCAL Link Project
Inner Northern LLEN developed the VCAL Link Model in 2006 as a way of crediting prior learning and reengaging unemployed and disengaged young people within the Inner Northern Metropolitan Region.
In this initiative VCAL is the framework used to document young people’s formal and informal learning through a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process. During the pilot phase young people from community organisations and programs were mapped against the requirements of VCAL.
The project was piloted in 2006 and 2007 and involved partnerships with Lynall Hall Community School as the host enrolling school, Mission Australia through the Connections Program, Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Centre and PRACE as the registered training providers.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
North Central LLEN: Overcoming regional shortages while providing a broader school curriculum
A new VET course for secondary students in North Central Victoria is solving two problems at once: the shortage of aged care and childcare workers and the growing number of young people wanting to study Community Services for their VCAL.
North Central LLEN brokered the partnerships necessary for the Community Services VET program that is now giving a dozen "at risk" young people the incentive to stay at school and improve their employment prospects.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Pavillion - helping young people get back to school
Banyule Nillumbik LLEN was instrumental in setting up Pavilion, an innovative program in West Heidelberg for 15-19-year olds who, most probably, would never have finished school. Most of the 32 participants in the program had been out of the education system for a long time.
By combining personal development with academic training in a supportive, case-managed setting, Pavilion helps these young people progress to full-time employment, further education or training.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Pathways Advice
E-book directory links young peole with their community
"Who's Out There? - A Guide to Services for Young People" provides links to over 60 youth service providers in the cities of Whitehorse, Manningham and Monash. By using the directory, students, teachers and careers advisors can easily locate more detailed information on the providers' own web pages or by contacting them directly.
Production of this innovative e-book directory was facilitated by the Gateway LLEN.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
Opening up the world of work to younger students
Smart Geelong Region LLEN was instrumental in setting up Project 729 in Manufacturing which encourages Year 7-9 students in the Greater Geelong Region to consider manufacturing as a career.
By linking schools with local manufacturers, P729 introduces students to the world of work early on, so they don't cut off their options by dropping crucial subjects in their senior years.
For further information please see LLEN Success Stories
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