Improved Career Development Services in Victoria Leela Darvall, Manager, Careers & Transitions Youth Transitions Division, DEECD

Need for improved career development Wider choice of educational programs & educational provider types- need to make institutional & quals choices Three senior secondary certificates and three different institutions Demand driven funding Participation in education, training or employment up to age 17 for at least 25 hours per week required Lifting qualifications

Making Career Development Core Business Quality career development services- vital part of effective youth transitions system, increasing student engagement & directly contributing to improved student completion rates Raise student aspirations Assist students make effective and informed choices Help navigate way through multiplicity of available pathways Increase motivation to complete qualification Assist to make link between initial qualifications and preferred employment destinations

Suite of reforms to increase participation, engagement and completion: Improved Career Development Services –Career Curriculum Framework –Regional Career Development Officers –Study Grants –Career Mentoring Framework National Partnership on Youth Attainment & Transitions

Career Curriculum Framework Careers Curriculum Framework -Scaffold –continuum of career devt & learning -Yr and young people for ACE and TAFE -Career Action Plans & guidelines for targeted groups -Link to existing resources and develop new where necessary -Careers Curriculum Framework Forum Dec 3 to raise awareness and test usability

Regional Career Development Officers 1 EFT in each of the nine Regional Offices Systemic change Change management Enhance capacity of careers practitioners in schools, ACE & TAFE (young people) Work with leadership teams, careers practitioners and related stakeholders to enhance career devt and build lifelong career skills and implement targeted improvements Drive long term systemic change

Study Grants Large scale professionalisation of the careers workforce across all sectors Aim to increase number of careers practitioners with specialised qualifications in career devt through study grants to support completion of Graduate Certificate in Career Development

Career Mentoring Framework Pilot programs Aim to support the improvement of long term life long learning and employment prospects for 3 targeted groups Koorie young people ESL/CALD including refugees Low SES families experiencing disadvantage

Other Local Learning & Employment Networks (LLENS) Youth Connections National Career Development Victoria –Managed Individual Pathways –Student Mapping Tool –Positive Pathways for Vic’s Vulnerable Young People- Vulnerable Youth Framework

Change in paradigm “The illiterate of the 21 century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and re- learn” Alvin Toffler “The new career management paradigm is not about making the right occupational choice. It is about equipping young people with competencies (skills, knowledge and attitudes) to make the myriad of choices with which adults are confronted continuously, in all aspects of their adult lives, lifelong” Phil Jarvis