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Practical short courses and activities that help address barriers to employment, preparing participants for their next steps

Ignite Your Job Search

Rebuild confidence, spark motivation, and reconnect with strengths after time away from work. Participants gain practical tools for resumes, applications, and interviews to move forward with clarity.

First Impressions Matter

Simple, supportive ways to refresh hygiene, presentation, and appearance make getting prepared easy. Participants leave feeling comfortable, confident, and ready to make a strong impression.

Managing Mental Health While Looking for Work

Job searching often brings stress and uncertainty, but early strategies can make it easier to cope. Participants learn calming techniques, self-care planning, and how to access support without guilt.

Smart Starts – Basic Finance for Everyday Life

Managing money doesn’t need to feel overwhelming when the focus is on small, practical steps. Participants build financial confidence and stability through budgeting, tracking spending, and debt management.

REALationships – Talking It Out, Working It Through

Early recognition of tension and calm communication skills reduces stress in tough situations. Participants develop strategies for healthy conversations, setting boundaries, and resolving issues respectfully.

Cool Head, Clear Choices – Real-World Anger Management

Understanding triggers and staying in control helps turn anger into constructive action. Participants gain techniques to express emotions in healthy ways across work, home, and community.

My Place, My Plan – Steps to Secure and Maintain Housing

Finding and keeping safe housing becomes easier with clear steps and practical supports. Participants walk away with knowledge, confidence, and a plan for long-term stability.

You Care, You Count – Support, Balance & Possibility

Caring for others is meaningful, but balance is essential to avoid burnout. Participants explore strategies to maintain wellbeing, access support, and build confidence in future possibilities.

Feel It, Face It – Practical Tools for Anxiety and Strength

Recognising the impact of anxiety is the first step to managing it well. Participants build resilience, strengthen self-trust, and take steps toward greater calm and confidence.

One Step Ahead – Realistic Goal Setting for Real Life

Breaking down big goals into small, realistic steps makes progress achievable. Participants gain confidence in setting motivating goals and moving forward without perfectionism.

Digital Basics: Everyday Confidence Online

Building digital confidence starts with simple, practical steps that make technology feel less overwhelming. Participants gain skills to use devices safely, protect personal information, and navigate online spaces with calm, clarity, and control.

Ready for Work: Confidence, Skills and Job Search

Step back into the job market with confidence and clarity. This course helps you recognise your strengths, explore realistic career pathways, and use practical tools like AI, resumes, interviews, and job-search strategies. Participants leave ready to plan their next steps with confidence and direction.

AI Made Simple

Get comfortable with artificial intelligence in everyday life. This course teaches how to use AI tools, write effective prompts, and check information critically. Participants build practical skills to safely and confidently integrate AI into study, work, and daily tasks.

A Day in the Life of Hospitality

Experience what working in hospitality is really like. This course gives an insider view of café, kitchen, and restaurant floor work, exploring real tasks, shifts, and career pathways. Participants gain skills valued by employers and learn how a Certificate III can turn hands-on experience into genuine career opportunities.

Living and Working with ADHD

Understanding how ADHD works can make everyday challenges easier to navigate. Participants explore practical strategies for focus, organisation, routines, time management, and wellbeing while building confidence and developing greater self-awareness.

Cyber Safety Basics: Click Smart

Stay safer online with simple habits that make a real difference. Participants learn how to protect their accounts, spot scams, safeguard personal information, and navigate online spaces with greater confidence and awareness.

Peer Pressure: Nah, I’m Good

Everyone feels pressure to fit in sometimes, but your choices should be your own. Participants learn practical techniques to recognise peer pressure, say no with confidence, build self-awareness, and make decisions that align with their values and goals.

The Art of Conversation

Great conversations are built on simple skills that anyone can learn. Participants develop confidence in starting conversations, listening well, reading social cues, and handling awkward moments while building stronger connections in everyday life, work, interviews, and social situations.

Job Ready: Resume and Interview Skills

A strong resume and confident interview skills can open the door to new opportunities. Participants learn practical strategies to identify their strengths, create a strong resume, prepare for interviews, and navigate the job search process with greater confidence and direction.

Let's Talk AOD: Alcohol, Other Drugs and Wellbeing

Understanding alcohol, other drugs, and wellbeing can help reduce stigma and build stronger support. Participants learn practical strategies to recognise signs that someone may need support, have caring conversations, and confidently connect others with appropriate support services when needed.

Conversation and Confidence in English

Building confidence to speak English starts with using the English you already know. Participants learn practical strategies to start conversations, ask for help when they do not understand, communicate clearly, and build confidence using English in everyday life, at work, and in job interviews.

Working with a Health Condition or Disability

Everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive at work. Participants learn practical strategies to understand their workplace rights, make informed decisions about disclosure, ask for reasonable adjustments, and recognise the strengths they bring to the workplace.

Staying Active: Energy and Movement

Small amounts of movement can make a big difference to how you feel. Participants learn practical strategies to build enjoyable movement into everyday life, boost energy, support wellbeing, and create healthy habits that work for their body and lifestyle.

Staying Motivated: Mindset and Momentum

Keeping momentum through the ups and downs of looking for work isn't always easy. Participants learn practical strategies to set achievable goals, create flexible routines, manage harsh self-talk, bounce back from setbacks, and keep moving forward.

Beating Isolation: Building Connection and a Support Network

Connection can be rebuilt, even when reaching out feels difficult. Participants explore practical, low-pressure ways to reconnect with others, strengthen existing relationships, meet new people through shared interests, and create a support network that helps them feel more connected and supported.

Returning to Work After a Break

Time away from work doesn't mean starting from scratch. Participants learn to recognise the skills and experience they already have, rebuild confidence, refresh what has changed, plan the practical side of returning, and take manageable steps towards getting back to work.

Eating Well on a Budget

Eating well doesn't have to mean spending more. Participants learn practical strategies to plan meals, shop for better value, cook simple meals from affordable staples, reduce food waste, and make their food budget go further while knowing where to find support when money is tight.

Could You Run Your Own Business?

Ever wondered whether working for yourself could be right for you? Participants explore how to spot and test a business idea, understand potential customers, work through the basic numbers and requirements, and decide whether self-employment is a pathway they want to take further.

A Day in the Life of Retail

Curious about what working in retail is really like? Participants explore the everyday tasks, expectations and challenges of a real trading day, from helping customers and working with stock to handling returns. They’ll gain practical insights into hours, pay, workplace rights, the skills employers value and the different career pathways available in retail.

A Day in the Life of Community Services

Discover what working in community services is really like. Participants explore a working day across a neighbourhood house, group program and home support, gaining practical insights into the different roles, skills employers value, emotional demands, hours, pay and career pathways while considering which area of the sector might suit them.

A Day in the Life of Supply Chain

Supply chain is about much more than moving boxes around a warehouse. Participants explore how goods move from arrival to departure, the different roles and systems that keep everything on track, and the realities of shift work, safety and physical demands while discovering the career pathways the industry can offer.

A Day in the Life of Tourism

There’s a lot happening behind a great tourism experience that visitors never see. Participants step behind the scenes of a tour company to discover what it takes to help visitors, lead memorable tours, solve problems and keep each day running smoothly. Along the way, they explore the realities of seasonal work, irregular hours and pay, the skills employers value, and the different career pathways tourism can offer.

Circuit Breaker - Why it's harder when you're the first in your family and what actually helps

Being the first in your family to take a new path can mean figuring out things others were already shown. Participants explore the hidden barriers that can make being first harder and learn practical ways to build connections, find mentors, understand unwritten rules, manage self-doubt and create the support they need to keep moving forward.

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