Explore your interest in cooking and eating great tasting food through our individualised cooking skills program. If you are wanting to learn how to cook better for you and your family at home, or interested to explore an employment pathway into hospitality in a simulated work setting, then this program is for you.
Learn from a cooking mentor experienced in hospitality who will create an individualised and fun cooking program with you based on the foods you like to eat and to explore new recipes and ingredients.
You’ll learn in a fun and small social group learning environment, how to:
Plan a weekly food menu;
Budget;
Set up a food storage system;
Be safe when cooking and storing food;
Bake, grill, fry, steam, and blanche foods and many more cooking techniques;
Read a nutrition information panel;
Use the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating;
Access emergency food relief if needed.
If you are interested in exploring your interest in food as a possible pathway into employment in hospitality, you’ll also learn about cooking workplace workflows, employer expectations and more.
Funded by:
CB Increased Social and Community Participation;
CB Finding and Keeping A Job;
School Leaver Employment Support (SLES);
Improved Daily Living 15_037_0117_1_3;
Core assistance with social, economic, and community participation.
Join your team of high school age young people and receive individualised support to build your skills and experience in social communication in a fun small social group. Grow your confidence and skills through group based activities in an indoor and outdoor no technology environment. Be empowered by a skilled, experienced, and university qualified mentor who will enable you to plan and play a variety of group based games of different difficulty levels designed to get you moving and thinking, whatever your ability.
Through the A-Team, you’ll be empowered to build your skills and experience in:
Communication within agreed group norms;
Active listening and sustained attention;
Following instructions and game rules with people who are similar and also different;
Playing non screen based games to broaden your experiences and relate to a wider range of people;
Supporting your team mates to experience a positive team culture.
Funded by:
CB Increased Social and Community Participation;
CB Finding and Keeping A Job;
School Leaver Employment Support (SLES);
Improved Daily Living 15_037_0117_1_3;
Core assistance with social, economic, and community participation.
Work, careers, money. It can be difficult to know where to start. Understanding your strengths and what’s out there can assist you get the life you want. Pathfinder is a career exploration program that uses virtual and real world activities to help you plan to get ahead. In the Pathfinder Program you will gain confidence and get started on the life you want.
Take part in virtual and real-world activities to increase your motivation and develop employability skills to build confidence and ability to enter the workforce. It’s not just about any job – being able to choose jobs that are a good fit for you, will help get and keep the right one.
Pathfinder is focused on the first step in the Choose-Get-Keep model – identifying an occupational goal which is achievable, realistic in the current labour market and match to values, interests and aptitudes. Pathfinder is aligned to the Australian Blueprint for Career Development and uses Gamification principles to engage users.
