SERVICES
Range of services include provided by Bridging the Gap:
http://www.workplace.gov.au/workplace/
- Work for the Dole
Work for the Dole (WFD) provides work experience placements for job seekers in approved activities which provide facilities and services to local communities. Through WFD, participants may also earn a Training Credit and receive a Passport to Employment.
- Information for job seekers
- Information for potential and existing sponsors and hosts
- Information for members of the public
- Work for the Dole Achievement Awards
- Work for the Dole-Drought Force
- Find Work for the Dole Activities
- Job Network
Job Network is a national network of private and community organisations dedicated to finding jobs for unemployed people, particularly the long term unemployed. Whether you are a job seeker or employer, this site provides information about how Job Network members can help you.
Select the following links for more information.
More information - Job seekers: 13 62 68 - Employers: 13 17 15.
- JPET
The JPET national network of services has specialist providers assisting young people who face significant barriers to employment and community participation.
Job Placement Employment and Training (JPET)
JPET helps people aged between 15 and 21 who face personal and social barriers to employment, education or community participation.
- Connections
http://www.careeradviceaustralia.gov.au/industry/connections.htm
Connections
Helping young people make a new start
Connections helps young people who face major barriers and who have been out of mainstream schooling for more than three months.
This personal development programme helps these young people to deal with their personal issues and to increase their life skills, employability skills, self-esteem and resilience.
When they are ready, we help them to take the next positive steps such as moving into school, TAFE, training, an apprenticeship or a job.
What you can do
If you think your business would be willing to offer a job, work placement or apprenticeship to a young person making a new start, talk to the Connections provider nearest you. Use the map on the right to find their contact details.
- RICA
http://www.careeradviceaustralia.gov.au/industry/regional_industry_ca.htm
Regional Industry Career Advisers
Career Advice Australia has established a network of 57 Regional Industry Career Advisers across Australia to ensure that young people have access to good quality, relevant, localised industry career information, advice and resources.
Regional Industry Career Advisers maintain relationships with businesses, employers and industry bodies within their service regions and use these contacts to stay up-to-date with industry developments, local career opportunities and regional skills needs.
Through Local Community Partnerships and schools, Regional Industry Career Advisers ensure that this information is easily available to young people to assist them in making informed career decisions.
They also work to improve community awareness of the skills local and regional businesses are currently looking for, and of the local industry sectors with predicted skills needs.
Regional Industry Career Advisers support the work of the Local Community Partnerships by increasing awareness of the Career Advice Australia programmes and trying to get more employers involved in activities such as Structured Workplace Learning and Adopt a School.
For Regional Industry Career Adviser Guidelines and other administrative documents, click here.
Link to RICA 45
- LCP
http://www.careeradviceaustralia.gov.au/industry/lcp.htm
LCP Blog: - http://www.bridgingthegaplcp.blogspot.com/
Local Community Partnerships
Local Community Partnerships are incorporated not-for-profit, community-based organisations that work with schools, local businesses and community organisations to help young people gain skills, experience and career guidance as they move through and beyond school.
Local Community Partnerships achieve this through building partnerships with local industries, employer groups and businesses, schools, professional career advisers, community organisations, parents, young people, youth service providers and other government organisations.
Through these affiliations, Local Community Partnerships facilitate three important programmes aimed at increasing the involvement of local businesses in young people's career development:
Under the Career Advice Australia initiative, 213 Local Community Partnership regions have been set up across Australia to ensure that all young people are getting the support they need.
For Local Community Partnership Guidelines and other administrative documents, click here.
Link to LCP 171
- Employment Directions Network
The Employment Directions Network (EDN) career centres are a FREE community service for all West Australians to assist you with career guidance and advice you need to make your way in the world of work.
Who can we help? All West Australians including:-
- Aboriginal Australians
- ex offenders
- migrants and people from a multicultural backgrounds
- people looking for a change of career
- people interested in environmental or eco jobs
- unemployed
They are staffed by local people who can:-
- provide you with personalised career guidance
- help you develop a career plan
- provide access to printed and electronic information and internet based resources
- examine what is required in the modern workplace
- work with you to develop the skills you will need to gain employment
- help you have your skills and competencies recognised (RCC)
- provide information on how to access employment and training services in your region
Our Programs - in addition to general career guidance we have tailored programs that cover:-
- Apprenticeship and Traineeship information
- Parents as Career Partners (PACP)
- School Leaver Program (SLP) - assistance to Students and Youth
- School to University transition
- Profit from Experience (PFE) - assistance for people 40 years and older
Contact us for further information on 13 64 64.
- Life Long Learning Centre
"Rockingham Lifelong Learning Centre" -allows people throughout the region to discover a wealth of opportunities that will ultimately put them on the path to realising their potential individually and as a community.
The Rockingham Lifelong Learning Centre is located at 10 Leghorn St in Rockingham. The Centre provides clients with career advice, access to internet and computers as well as on line training.
Visitors will include: students, young people, parents, unemployed, business people, mature aged and elderly people seeking to change or further develop their careers and life.
- Ngulla Community Nursery
Ngulla Community Nursery, situated in Born Road, Casuarina, is a unique local business stemming from a local partnership between five community organisations.
Bridging the Gap, Challenger TAFE, Town of Kwinana, Peet Southern JV and the Medina Aboriginal Cultural Community developed Ngulla to provide young local people with work based training in enterprise learning and horticulture and to generate community ownership in a sustainable nursery enterprise.
We offer a contract propagation service which may be able to provide you with species that have previously been difficult to source.
Ngulla also offers a provenance selection service for seed/ live plant material, where we can source seeds or live material and propagate your vegetation in our nursery setting.
Please consider us as a supplier for your re-vegetation (or landscape) needs
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