Engaging all Youth

IntroductionsIssues around engaging youth

Canterbury PresentationGroup Workshop

Feedback and Wrap up

Outside The Square -Developing enterprising attitudes

Creating an enterprising communityYouth

Schools

Business

Organisations

A partnership between

Youthworks - 3 Areas • Youth at Risk

• Alternative Education Project

• Early School Leaver Project

Project Criteria Service

Youth Justice

Age: 16+

Police/Youth Justice involvement

Assistance to access training/workPost placement support

Alternative Education

Age: 13 – 16

Current or ex-AE student

Planning for leaving and assistance to access training/work on leaving AEOngoing support post-AE

Early School Leaver

Age: 15

15 yr old who has disengaged/or is disengaging from school (excluded/in danger of exclusion or chronic truant)

Assistance to find training/work, apply for exemptionOngoing support for youth granted an exemption or trying to re-engage in education

RAPURAPU supports Maori & Pasifika youth

in secondary schools assisting with achievement, retention, transition, mentoring

& leadership development

Stats…11 schools contain 80% of Maori students8 schools contain 80% Pasifika students

Maori – 1547Pasifika – 432

RAPU works with:535 Maori - 34%183 Pasifika – 42.%

CDC’s Apprenticeship Campaign

• Promoting the benefits of apprenticeship

• Providing easy-to-access information about apprenticeships for young people, their families, employers, schools and the wider community

• Increasing the supply and uptake of apprenticeships

• Management of Canterbury Apprenticeship Graduation ceremony

www.apprentice.org.nz

www.apprentice.org.nz

Engaging all Youth

D1: What is currently being delivered in other regions to

address some of these issues?

D2: What are the gaps?

D3: Identify possible solutions and stakeholders