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Paving the Way
TESTING the waters in her chosen field of interest not only helped former VETiS student Brianna Starick decide on a future career path, but also resulted in full time employment.
Opting to complete VCAL over VCE because she “had no idea” what career path she wanted to take post-school, Brianna, 19 went on to start a VET course which then merged into the current
VETiS course.
Completing the Certificate 2 in Community Services on a Wednesday, over the course of 2 years, Brianna was able to gain a better understanding of which field she preferred; children’s services or disability services.
“I love kids. I always knew I wanted to work with them and was leaning towards the disability sector,” Brianna said. “However, even though my brother has a disability, I thought I might struggle
working with severely disabled children, so it was good to have the opportunity to try both fields and see whether I preferred children’s or disability services,” she said.
Describing the program as “well set out” and “easy to understand”, Brianna said her tutor, Dianne, was “awesome”. “Dianne was so easy to talk to and gave us the chance to interact with a lot of
people from varied fields,” she said. “I really enjoyed the entire course and got a much better understanding of psychology, in particular, and some other areas.”
Now in her second year as a Teacher’s Aide at Horsham Primary School, Brianna, who works with students from Prep-Grade Six with a low IQ or behavioural concerns, said the course helped a lot in her role. “While I was completing VET I was able to do some work placement at the school, working with the Prep students for a year,” she said. “That also gave me a bit of an advantage when it came to applying for my job.”
“The course was a lot of hard work, but it has been great to see it pay off and have the training click into place.” Previously undertaking a professional development day on intervention programs at Horsham Special School, Brianna was so inspired by the training that she implemented a similar program at her school. “I was very proud to be able to introduce, and run, our Balls and Ladders program which assists students with their hand, eye and feet coordination,” she said.
Born and raised in Horsham, Brianna was excited to learn that she was being offered a 7 year contract at the school recently, and said she hopes to go on and complete a teaching degree in the future.
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Skilled Mentors in Education
This program aims to assist learners who are facing a barrier which may prohibit them from gaining the necessary experience to complete a course, upskilling to gain employment, or entering into study.
As a mentor you will be upskilled with training to assist you to deliver learning outcomes to learners.
Funded in conjunction with The Centre for Participation and the education department the Skilled Mentors in Education program was developed to assist people in our community who have or are experiencing difficulty in completing a course, gaining a qualification or entering into study.
Skilled Mentors in Education is free for people wishing to learn be connected with a learning mentor. The program matches skilled mentors with people who have a desire to enhance their learning potential. Mentors are matched with mentees due to skill base, availability needs and interests. There are people in our community who have or are experiencing difficulty in completing a course, gaining a qualification or entering into study.
Being a mentor has been one of the best experiences
Skilled mentors assist and empower members of the community to re-enter the learning world, offer support, assistance and mentoring to learners whilst studying and build a community of confident, upskilled, work and study ready individuals.
Contact us for more information on how you can expand your learning capacity or how you can assist, empower and change lives with learning.
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Volunteers: Come along and be celebrated for your wonderful contribution as part of National Volunteer Week 2018.
Welcome to our new magazine
After months of hard work we were proud to launch the first edition of our new Centre for Participation magazine, Participate last week.
Designed to share with readers what is happening within the organisation from our services to our goals, highlighting the wonderful work our volunteers do and showing how you can help, we hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it all together.
Read Edition 1 here:Â Â Issue 1