Mentoring for Our Students Program

Western LCP has been selected to participate in the Australian Government’s 'Mentors for our students' pilot

program which is part of the government’s 'Skilling Australia for the Future' strategy.

The Program aims to:

• engage young people with recently retired tradespeople, professionals and  paraprofessionals as mentors

 

• to encourage young people to seek out careers in areas experiencing skill shortages and to enhance their            industry knowledge;

 

• utilise experienced workers to pass on their skills and knowledge to the future workforce; and

 

• improve school retention rates and transitions of young people.

Schools in the Hobson’s Bay and Brimbank local government areas are eligible to participate in the pilot which

will target careers associated with maths, science, and engineering subjects. Included in the range of industries

that have been identified as significant for the West are the Transport and Logistics Industry and the Health

sector.

The pilot will match mentors with students, in years 9-12, who have indicated an interest in the field of

expertise of the mentor or who would benefit from more information about the industry sector. Students and

mentors will meet in the student’s school during school hours, for one hour a week for ten weeks. 

View a link to the Federal Government website

View a flyer designed to promote the program to students

View a flyer to promote participation by recently retired workers.

View a poster about the program

View a press release about the program

View an article about Bill and his mentoring experience as featured in the Leader Newspaper.

Bill O'Connor is the coordinator of the program and is himself semi retired. Bill has been working hard to recruit

mentors to invest their past in the futures of our young people and to train them, and he is now ready to recruit           students to join the pilot.

If you are a school in the Brimbank or Hobson's Bay area and are interested in participating in the program you

are invite you to contact Bill on 8311 5800, 0438039446 or bill @wlcp.com.au

If you know of someone who may be interested in becoming a mentor please pass on this information to them

and encourage them to contact Bill.