Cooking Culture

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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.

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A-Team

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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.

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Seed2Plate

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Cultivate a Healthy Career and Life!

Seed2Plate is a program for NDIS participants to engage in the planting, growing, harvesting and cooking of various foods.

This program aims to teach participants a range of skills such as:

  • Horticulture & Gardening Career Exploration
  • Independent Living Skills
  • Social Skills
  • Healthy Cooking & Eating
  • Workplace Communication & Teamwork
  • Work Health and Safety

Work, have fun and learn in the great outdoors!

Mondays – 9am to 2pm – Career and Employment Focus

Thursdays – 9am to 2pm – Independent Living Skills Focus

Depending on your NDIS funding category the cost is approx. $325 per session (6 hours), per participant.

Ideal for participants with School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) funding.

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Explore Your Career Pathway

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. 

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Delivery Location and Methodology

Face2Face, Group Environment at Sturt Street Youth Hub, 40 Sturt Street, Adelaide and/or other Locations

and/or Via Zoom/TEAMS Online

Support Category/Registration Group

Capacity Building – 0102 – Finding and keeping a job

Or School Leaver Employment Options (TOMORROW ME)

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Help to Get and Keep a Job

On The Job

On The Job support is designed to enable NDIS participants to successfully obtain and/or retain employment.

Individual support from a mentor who guides and helps the journey to work!

Informational interviews with employers.

Work Experience and volunteering to get on the job experience.

Help with looking for a job, job applications and interview skills.

Delivery Location and Methodology

Face2Face, Group Environment at Sturt Street Youth Hub, 40 Sturt Street, Adelaide and/or other Locations

and/or Via Zoom/TEAMS Online

Support Category/Registration Group

Capacity Building – 0102 – Finding and keeping a job

Core – 0125

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Year 12 School Leaver

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Tomorrow Me – School Leaver Employment Supports

“Work, career, independence and choice. It’s what I want.”

“Knowing how to get it can be tricky”

School Leaver Employment Supports is an early intervention approach for Year 12 school leavers on NDIS to support their transition from school to employment.

These supports are designed to build an NDIS participant’s capacity to meet the access criteria and transition to a Disability Employment Services Provider (DES).

Through our Tomorrow Me SLES Program, we help young people to prepare, look for and gain employment. We provide meaningful, personalised, individualised capacity building activities so young people can achieve their employment goals.

Tomorrow Me starts with you choosing the help you need from our menu of supports:

  • Pathfinder – career exploration that makes finding your future FUN!
  • Mentoring to help you find and keep a job
  • Get Moving – start with your L’s, achieve your P’s
  • Drive Me – Driving Experience Hours Mentoring, Safe Driver Workshop
  • Skills Development & Work Experience

Typically, Tomorrow Me is delivered over 48 weeks in a 1 year period or 96 weeks in a 2 year period

Delivery Location and Methodology

Delivery may include a combination of:

  • Face2Face, Group Environment, Social Group and/or One2One
  • Face2Face, Individualised & Personalised Service
  • and/or Via Zoom/TEAMS Online

at Sturt Street Youth Hub, 40 Sturt Street, Adelaide, Murray Bridge and/or other locations.

Support Category/Registration Group

Capacity Building – 0102 – School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES)

The cost of the Tomorrow Me Tailored Package is $474.78 per week.

1 year service (48 weeks) – $22,789

2 year service (96 weeks) – $45,578

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