Career and Transition Support Program

The primary role of LCP's under the CTS Program is to facilitate access for young people to a range of career and transition support services which link with and complement existing programs and services at the local LCP Service Region level.

Some aims of Career and Transition Support include:

• helping young people understand their post-school options

• making it easier for students to access career advice

• promoting vocational and technical education and training

• encouraging parents, teachers and career advisers to better communicate.

The Capital Region LCP works with schools, industry, business and community groups to analyse the region and identify needs or gaps within existing services. We look at the local situation and the services already being delivered by schools, and then focus on the best ways to support schools to build on and improve these services.

Under Career and Transition Support, the Capital Region LCP works closely with schools in our region to make sure students have access to a range of career and transition support services.

Local businesses can get involved in Career and Transition Support in various ways including:

• exhibiting at local career expos
• participating in mentoring programs
• offering excursions, visits or tours of their business or industry
• participating in student interview and résumé workshops
• serving as guest speakers.

The following web site is a really useful link for more information about the Australian Government's Career Advice Australia initiative:
www.australia.gov.au/careeradviceaustralia

For Schools:

How the Career and Transition Support Program can support you.

The role of the Career and Transition Program Coordinator is to work with the Principals, Careers Advisers, and VET Coordinators in schools to support programs already running, identify gaps where support is required and assist with those programs schools would like to develop.

In DET schools, this would mean involvement in activities that are part of School to Work programs. For all schools this would also mean working with staff members who are running a range of transition/career development programs for students.

The role includes the promotion of vocational education and training pathways and opportunities.

The role also involves attending Youth Interagency networks as they exist within the region, to get an understanding of the different services available for young people and support schools by linking them with particular services you may require.

In Career and Transition Support, Local Community Partnerships do not directly deliver the services to young people. Their role is to facilitate organisations to work together to increase the availability of, access to and quality of such services within the region

Specific activities to support schools:

• Helping find a variety of guest speakers
• Helping to organise specific events such transition days and career development programs (such as resume writing and developing interview skills) for students etc.
• Bringing in people to talk about specific industry areas and career opportunities
• Arranging visits for groups of students, teachers and parents to different industries.
• Organising events that showcase a particular industry sector.
• Helping to establish links with various employers, industry and community groups.
• Working with schools (or groups of schools in a region) to help organise local careers expos
• Being involved with Careers and Employment Expos that happen in the region (eg ACT Careers Market)
• Linking schools with DEEWR and industry produced information and resources. The program coordinator will pass on information and resources that are received through the Regional and National parts of the network.
• Finding and passing on specific career/employment information as requested.
• Supporting TAFE taster days, 'try a trade' days and other events.
• Helping to organise and run work ready sessions to help prepare students for their work placements.
• Linking schools to existing mentoring programs, or helping to support schools in developing a local mentoring program.
• Helping with parent information sessions, subject selection evenings etc.
• Running sessions for parents on different careers resources (eg Myfuture)