Education, Training & Community Unit
- Creating Connections Educational and Employment Pathways
- Wheels
- Youth Connections Program
- Multimedia Education Pathways Program
- Youth Enterprise Hub
- Youth Transition Support Initiative
- Western Young People’s Independent Network
- Western Tutoring and Scholarship Program
- School-Focussed Youth Service
Creating Connections Educational and Employment Pathways (CEEP) are for young people aged 15-25 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who are supported by homelessness assistance service (SAAP) to access education and employment options.
Wheels is a pre-employment program which focuses on supporting early school leavers and unemployed young people to gain important life skills that will help them to link into employment and/or return to school.
Youth Connections Program is a case management program that assists young people aged between 13 and 19 with reconnecting with school or to improve engagement with education or employment.
Melbourne Citymission in partnership with St Kilda Youth Services (SKYS), offers an innovative flexible learning program in multimedia.
Students have the option of completing a Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) or other accredited certificates within our purpose-built multimedia and music studio in North Fitzroy.
The Youth Enterprise Hub (YEH) works with young people aged 12-25 who are unemployed, disengaged from school or at-risk.
Through a partnership approach with a number of in-house and visiting services YEH provides individual support, group training and a drop-in space to assist young people to find a job, get into school and/or to build work readiness skills. Current projects include a youth diversion program and problem gambling prevention initiative.
If you are aged from 15 to 19 and are not at school or not working more than 15 hours per week, we can support you to find a job, get into study and/or build your work skills.
WYPIN is for young people aged from 12 to 25 years from newly arrived and refugee backgrounds who want to make a difference. WYPIN uses a range of leadership, capacity building and advocacy strategies to engage culturally diverse youth across the western region.
If you are aged from 12 to 25 years and want to make a difference in your community, join the Western Young People’s Independent Network (WYPIN).
This program provides free tuition for disadvantaged young people in years 9 to VCE to improve learning outcomes in specialist subject areas. An annual scholarship round assists students who have demonstrated potential to access further learning..
This program works with the education, health and welfare sectors to enhance the physical, mental and social-emotional wellbeing of primary and secondary school students aged between 10 and 18.
Education, Training & Community Unit
Melbourne Citymission’s Education, Training & Community Unit supports people experiencing disadvantage to be socially included in their community. The range of complementary and engagement programs prepare residents in Melbourne’s North and West to enter the workforce, remain connected to education, engage with further training opportunities, and to develop enhanced connections with their local community.
