The Women, Careers and Leadership (WCL) Program offered women from migrant and refugee backgrounds living in the Housing Estates opportunities to further develop and pursue their career goals through a range of workshops and programs, along with ongoing mentoring support. The responses to the survey are overwhelmingly positive which may suggest that people have been...

Youth unemployment is a serious social problem. The impact of this can be severe and long-lasting and can have significant effects on young people’s health and wellbeing. This evaluation demonstrates that the M2W Program was designed and implemented following mentoring best practice guidelines in a way that was young adult-centred, flexible and accommodating of this...

This report outlines the Mentoring 2 Work program, and draws on implementation evaluation learnings to describe how it was planned, structured and most effectively delivered.

The M2W initiative paired unemployed young adults (aged 18 to 25) at risk of long-term unemployment with a volunteer mentor, who supported them through the processes of identifying a career, searching for work, and preparing for employment. To be eligible to participate, the young person needed to: Be aged under 25 Have received a welfare...

This report presents the experiences of the mentors and mentees who participated in the post-COVID-19 program extension (Stage 4).