Generate

Generate at the Job Shop
Phone 8252 8652
Email jobshop@anglicare-sa.org.au
15 Philip Highway, Elizabeth

In 2009, Anglicare started a bold experiment in Adelaide’s north.

It was an employment program the like of which had never been tried before.

It would help young people secure paid employment: but it would not just work with them; it would work with their whole families.

Generate would challenge the attitudes and beliefs which had contributed to generations of people being stuck at margins of society.

The barriers addressed by Generate staff are complex and multiple; the achievements of participants have been amazing and life changing.

Generate receives no government funding. The whole project has been made possible by the Archbishop’s Appeal, and the generous support of so many individuals and businesses.

Generate will work with young people who are not employed. But it will do more than that.

Generate is the place where marginalised and vulnerable young people and their parents or carers can go for assistance. Generate, based at the Job Shop site in Elizabeth, provides work experience in a real workplace, both within the project and with other employers, for young people 15–19, and their families.

Generate is solely funded by the Archbishop’s Appeal, giving the program the fl exibility, capacity and resources to work with families and young people in a unique and innovative manner. In short, our staff do whatever it takes to move a young person into employment.

Generate engages families.

Generate:

• Builds the capacity of parents to be career advisors or employment coaches for their young people.
• Develops opportunities for parents to share their skills, and
• Prepares jobless families for the impact of work on their family life.

Generate motivates young people to get involved and works with them to identify barriers and develop their own employment plans. This includes an exploration of the role of the family in encouraging and supporting the young person, and the young person’s understanding of the value of work in their family. Staff motivate and enthuse parents and young people to work together to achieve employment.

Generate works through a mixture of individual learning, group learning, workshops and competency training and virtual workplace models. The first task is to develop their employability skills; the next is to link them to complementary services and teach them what is required to function in the workplace.

Generate at the Job Shop

There are many excellent youth trainee programs, but they do not take account to the environment of the young person, and the people who influence them most.

Generate will work with their families as well, to combat generations of entrenched unemployment.

Generate acknowledges that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution to unemployment. Work may not be full time, and it may begin with volunteer work.

Anglicare staff do not believe it will be easy, but they also acknowledge that welfare is not the way out of poverty.

For more information on supporting Generate, contact Kristy Wildy on 8305 9267 or email kwildy@anglicare-sa.org.au

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