A community partnerships resource - supporting young people through their life, learning and work transitions: learnings from the CAT and POEM Pilots
This resource document has been developed to assist communities, organisations and individuals – in establishing partnerships to support career and transition services and flexible education programmes in meeting the needs of young people on their education and employment pathways. It provides guidance on establishing these services, and information on the lessons learnt from the Career and Transition (CAT) and Partnership Outreach Education Models (POEM) Pilots.
Abstract
The Australian Government devised two pilot programmes to help young Australians with their career and transition needs and disconnected young people to access learning. As a result, 23 Career and Transition (CAT) projects and 21 Partnership Outreach Education Model (POEM) projects were established around Australia in 2002.
The CAT Pilot projects explored methods for enhancing career and transition support to all young people aged 13-19 years. Projects built partnerships to support young people’s transitions, and tested ways of tracking the transitions of young people after they left school. The POEM Pilot projects trialled new ways of engaging young people (who had become disconnected from mainstream education, and possibly their families and communities as well), in community learning environments. Both the CAT and POEM Pilots used a community partnership model to work collaboratively with local stakeholders, so that they could better meet the needs of the young people they were working with. Both CAT and POEM Pilot sites employed Learning Pathways Plans (LPPs) to assist young people to articulate their career and transition goals and support needs. The Pilot projects worked within an action research framework, which is an innovative model that allowed projects to learn and modify their delivery of programme objectives as they went along, changing and enhancing individual elements as their knowledge and experience grew.
This report outlines the processes involved in both CAT and POEM pilot projects and presents a brief outline of a number of those projects. It provides lessons learned by the CAT and POEM pilots about creating successful community partnerships to enhance career and transition outcomes for all young people and education outcomes for those young people who have fallen out of school.
Author(s)
Department of Education, Science and Training
Publication Details
| Type : |
Reports |
| Published : |
6/2004 |
Topics Covered
| Sectors : |
| Career development |
| School education |
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| Detailed :
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| Apprenticeships and vocational education |
| Career choices |
| Information for jobseekers |
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