Planning Your Future

It is essential that no young person leaves school without good information about the options for their future life. It is highly desirable that the exiting student has completed a Pathways Plan with appropriate assistance.

The sources of assistance are:

1. The Careers Teacher/MIPs Teacher (MIPs=Managing Individual Pathways)

2. The Youth Pathways Worker (replacing the Jobs Pathways Program)
Youth Pathways is a free service that helps young people (13-19) make the transition from school to work. From the start of 2006 the service concentrates on those young people who are most likely to have difficulties in making the transition. Contact is usually made through the School’s Careers/MIPs Teacher. 

Careers Counselling Initiative: Young people who meet the criteria can access up to 6 hours of FREE Career Counselling by qualified Career Counsellors. 

Local Youth Pathways contacts : for the names of local staff

WCIG website - http://www.wcig.org.au : details about the program by the organisation responsible for Youth Pathways in the western suburbs of Melbourne.

Government website - http://www.youthpathways.dest.gov.au/ : for all the background information relating to the Commonwealth's Youth Pathways program.