Centre for Participation’s School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) program supports Year 12 school leavers, to assist them with the transition from school into employment. Supports may include work experience generally in open employment, job site training, travel training and activities that contribute to achieving an employment outcome and linkages to ongoing employment support.

Participants will have SLES in their NDIS plan and this gives them choice and control of how supports are given and which service providers they use.

When a SLES participant leaves school, they have a number of pathways and supports available. Their choice depends on their aspirations, skills, abilities, interests and personal and family circumstances.

Centre for Participation’s SLES program can (but is not limited to) focus on the following ‘hard and soft skills’:

• Job Search activities such as resume writing, industry visits and job seeking
• Cooking activities such as meal preparation, food safety and budgeting
• Creative activities such as wood works, growing your own food and recycling
• Life skills such as tax knowledge, insurance knowledge, budgeting and saving, healthy eating, social skills, transport and living arrangements
• Social activities 

To become part of the SLES program participants will need to have SLES listed in their NDIS plan. SLES programs can be customised to suit the participant. To discuss options and availability, please contact our SLES coordinator on 5382 5607