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We are committed to creating a better world, with and for young people. As one of the largest employers of young people in Australia (with over half of our 11,500 employees being young people), we are committed to creating and advocating for meaningful, just, and fair education, training and employment opportunities and working conditions for this, and future generations. See some of our programs and services here:
Y Careers – a new pipeline of young employees for the care economyEstablished as a Charity in 2022, will help to address the issue of a national shortage of workers
Through $15.2 million of establishment funding committed by the Federal Government for |
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Rebuilding the lives of young people in the criminal justice system (Vic)The Y’s ReBuild program supports young people involved in the criminal justice system Focussed on reducing the rates of reoffending, ReBuild provides on-the-job training, The rate of participants who reoffend within five years is less than 5%, compared Some key stats on our Rebuild program for FY21-22:
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Vocational Schools (Brisbane) for disengaged studentsY Brisbane’s vocational schools provide adjusted education programs and vocational training We work in partnership with students to build their self-worth, resilience and the development 98% of students across all Brisbane campuses successfully completed Year 12 in 2021. There are currently 9 school campuses and 700+ students, mostly across South-East Queensland, |
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Space SquadCanberra has some of Australia’s greatest Space attractions, in fact, some of the first images Y Canberra’s Space Squad is Australia’s only residential holiday camp program for students |
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Our four pillars of impact, also check out what we do in the others below:
Also, see more in our 2022 Community Impact Report here.