Welcome to new staff member in the Upper Hunter, Dale FitzFitz----Gerald.Gerald. Issue 2 Dale holds a Bachelor of English/Computers and has had an extensive secondary teaching career during the past 20 years, having been located predominantly in the Upper Hunter. An avid endurance horse rider and trainer, during the last 8 years, she downgraded her teaching Express to Success to a casual capacity, to allow time to retrain in a new career in Equine September 2008 8 Bulwer Street (PO Box 65) Therapy. Hunter Valley Youth Express 8 Bulwer Street (PO Box 65) Maitland 2320 Maitland NSW 2320 Unfortunately, co-conspirators, 4931 2777 www.hvye.com.au Phone: 02 4931 2777 Equine Influenza and the fuel Fax: 02 4931 2799 crisis finally made her Equine E-mail: [email protected] Therapy business non profitable, We’re on the web! Go to www.hvye.com.au so she has now found a new niche with the HVYE team. She is looking forward to working Staff News! with many that she already knows Staff and partners enjoyed a fun, team-building time in and to making new contacts in the vineyards on a recent weekend, but appeared to Career Transition Support with become somewhat frivolous towards the end of the day. Hunter Valley Youth Express Upcoming Events Special thanks to both Chris Rafferty for driving and Ant Hunter Valley Youth Express • Career Quests— 24 & 25Sept for organising the outing. SHS, 5 Nov CHS. Your Local Community Partnership • Mobile Careers Caravan— 25 Welcome to new staff member in the Lower Hunter, Kylie Ayerst. Welcome to the second HVYE support in person. HVYE Dungog with Maitland sitting at Aug Linuwel. 1—12 Sept—SHS, Newsletter for 2008. supports young people 13—19 it’s centre. There are 2 main Kylie comes to us holding a Cert IV in Business Admin, and has worked 13 Sept Maitland Rodeo, 20— 24 Oct RTHS, 27—31 Oct CHS, years of age, and their parents offices hosting 16 staff, 1 at in administration for the past 15 years, doing many different things, Exciting things are happening for through the challenging career Maitland and 1 at including conveyancing, real 10 Nov FGHS. 17 Nov St HVYE during term 3 of this year. and transition phase from school Muswellbrook with services estate (property Catherines. A resource centre is being into further education and/or provided out of Taree and management and sales), established in the shop next • VET Network, Sydney 1—3 Oct employment. Raymond Terrace. supervised access / youth door to the 8 Bulwer St work (Life Without Barriers), • Teacher Network Days—10, 11 premises. HVYE is overseen by a Board A number of HVYE programs are Nov that is made up of Industry, federally funded by the This will be equipped with Community and School Department of Education, • Uni Taster Day Year 9, 25 Nov appropriate technology (from representatives and is Employment and Workplace funds provided by Community STOP PRESSPRESS—Congratulations to Ashley Cox , his wife • managed by Julie Eldridge. Relations, supported by the P&C MeetingPresentations— 16 Development Support and family on the arrival of Caitlyn Sophia Cox, born Career Advice Australia 16/8/08, 7 lbs 12 oz. Sept RTHS, 23 Sept KKHS, , 29 Expenditure (CDSE) Scheme) HVYE covers a geographical area Initiative. The School Based Sept DHS and hard copy information from Scone out to Merriwa, Traineeship Program is access. down through Cessnock • Oral Presentations at RTHS 17— supported by DET. across Raymond Terrace to the innate exuberance is certainly doing this at school, at work and on the soccer 19 Nov HVYE staff will also be available Tomaree Peninsula up to the Youth Pathways News field. Congratulations Millie and Tori! ToniFalk—Youth Pathways to provide Career and Transition Inside this issue: Great Lakes area and across to Millie Brown and Tori Boyles (pictured right), Year 9 students at Kurri Kurri High, have both enjoyed HVYE News 1 Cows Create Careers—Adopt a School participating in the Youth Pathways program. The support program has been offered by Hunter Valley Youth Express Cows Create Careers 1 Cessnock High School took out The high standard of work was noticeable from the local schools who for the last 4 years and has helped over 1600 students in four of the major prizes at the participated including Cessnock, Singleton, Rutherford, Dungog, the Hunter-Port Stephens area since its inception. Structured Workplace Learning 2 recent Cows Create Careers day Tomaree High Schools, St Catherine's and St Joseph’s Aberdeen . News at Tocal College on 24 June. Millie said ”I really like Youth Pathways for lots of reasons. It is fun and it has helped me get a job!” Millie has been St Joseph’s Aberdeen also took Career Transition Support News 2 learning lots of new work and organisational skills as she out the Senior School Award. has to manage school, work and her dancing and singing Cows Create Careers is commitments. Adopt a School News 2 supported by Dairy Australia and was sponsored locally by the Millie said that it is so good earning her own money and Department of Primary 3 she is much more conscious of how to spend it wisely, as School Based Traineeship/ Industries NSW through Tocal Apprenticeship News she can appreciate how hard it is to earn. College. Tori has also benefited from the Youth Pathways program Upper Hunter News 3 Students from years 7 and 11 and has been in the lucky position of having been offered from 10 Hunter High Schools two jobs since learning how to look for work and present took part in the program by for interviews. Staff News 4 completing work that was both The Youth Pathways programs helps young people to practical (feeding, weighing, develop personally and address any issues they may be Youth Pathways News 4 measuring and caring for calves) facing, as well as explore career and further education and also required formalised possibilities. Tori is living by her new motto, “Don’t count project work. every minute, make every minute count” and with her Page 2 Express to Success Issue 2 Page 3 Hunter Valley Youth Express 8 Bulwer Street (PO Box 65) Maitland 2320 Structured Workplace Learning—Lower Hunter School Based Traineeships and Apprenticeships Another term of successful work We have had some very positive Industry Curriculum Framework Lower Hunter News High School is one of the first Some of the tentative vacancies placements has been achieved. feedback from students course, requiring mandatory students in the area to be Scholarship for Emily for 2009 are in retail @ MIGAS To date, we have placed 685 regarding their work placements work placement. The first Kurri signed in caravan park for Reading Cinema’s Maitland, students in region 28, and 189 via our new surveys at TAFE class was successfully Emily Waight, a year 11 student operations. He is employed by Automotive—heavy @ Westrac “To teach is to students in region 29. www.hvye.com.au placed during term 3, with the at Maitland Grossmann High One Mile Beach Holiday Park Thornton & Mt Thorley, second class due for placement School, who is currently a SBAT and undertakes most of his We would like to say a big thank We appreciate all feedback and Automotive-light @ Turner learn twice” at end of this term. at Nationwide Hire in the traineeship on the job. you to all employers who take encourage all students to go to Holden Dungog, Business Rutherford Industrial Estate, has Services @ Centrelink various Tomaree High School teacher Jason Witt, SWL students. SWL coordinators our website after they have Structured work placement We have been very busy been successful in obtaining a HVYE SWL Coord Anthony Burke and are very grateful to all of our completed their work placement coordinators have been marketing traineeships at school locations, Warehousing @ Reece scholarship with Pegasus. Tomaree students Nathan Thompson and employers; we appreciate the ,and take 5 minutes to fill in the attending information nights for subject selection nights and year Plumbing, Hospitality @ Taste of Alex Bruning at Salamander Library. Country Pokolbin, Salsa ongoing support. 2 surveys. By gaining feedback students and parents that are Reece Plumbing 10 careers classes, and also we can ensure that students heading into their HSC in 2010. talking with interested students Restaurant Pokolbin, Riverwood We are always looking for new have the best options available We have 2 new sign-ups with at school. Downs Dungog, Pepper’s employers who are willing to These information nights are a for work placement. Reece Plumbing. They are Anchorage Port Stephens. Progress is provide a week, (35 hours), of great time to gain valuable Jordan Balsarini from Tomaree There have also been 3 “ There will also be a range of opportunity to young people. This year has seen the information regarding Vocational High School and Jake Wilson information nights held, one in engineering /metal / auto-based like a introduction of Automotive as an Education Training courses and from Cessnock High School. Cessnock, one in Maitland and wheelbarrow. one in Singleton. These nights SBATs within the Rutherford Reece Plumbing are looking to enabled students to find out Industrial Estate. If you don’t put more trainees on in more about traineeships and To apply for a SBAT in 2009 Career Transition Support—Lower Hunter warehousing. These are keep pushing speak with different providers on students need to complete an excellent opportunities for the night. Thank you to Mission expression of interest form it, it stops” Lower Hunter Mobile Careers MGHS was also supported with Industry representatives who students. Australia for sponsoring these available on our website at VanVan————Since May, the Van has their Career Explorer and Year supported the events were TESA Traineeship in Caravan evenings.