Hamish Drake
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We are thrilled for Hamish who has started his employment journey with Show Support in the event hire industry and we look forward to him furthering his skills and experience. Over the past 3 years, Hamish’s service has evolved as his confidence, skills and interests have grown.
Pathway Exploration
Hamish started with an interest in woodworking and developed his technical skills through individualised woodwork projects based on his interests. Since then he also developed an interest in welding and later added this to his learning program. Through these twice weekly workshop sessions he has also developed his employability skills as he has learnt to work with others in the very small group format in our workshop.
A Responsive Service Design
Hamish realised that to succeed in the world of work, he needed to build his social confidence and his communication skills. Through our Dungeon’s and Dragon’s social skills capacity building program, not only has his social confidence increased tremendously, he has learnt how to adapt his communication in different situations for different purposes.
Later he recognised he also needed to improve his adaptability as he found it challenging to respond productively to unexpected changes in situations. We also empowered him to see that he needed to work on his numeracy in order to move close towards an employment pathway. Through our resilience program, he has learnt how to improve his motivation and perform tasks he finds challenging, independently. Not only has he been able to better respond to unexpected changes in his simulated employment environment in the workshop, but in his own time at home he now regularly practices his maths skills via an online learning platform.
A Case Management Approach
An important part of empowering Hamish with his learning was consistency of approach across his team of mentors. Through our case management approach, his resilience mentor also empowered his workshop mentors to consistently support him to build his resilience across his multiple workshop sessions a week. This repetition and consistency was key for his learning success.
Longer term, Hamish has a goal to work in set production. He currently receives guidance, insight and inspiration from his woodworking mentor who produced stunt props for the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie filmed in South Australia. He also has plans to complete a certificate IV in set production.