Our learning support and mentoring programs in 90 Australian communities directly help children in need achieve their goals through education.
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One of our strategic principles is do what we are best placed to do and partner with others for impact.
Our learning programs are designed to provide timely and targeted educational and mentoring support to help level the playing field for students experiencing disadvantage, who are more likely to be developmentally behind their peers.
“So, the areas that we focus on are scaffolding, literacy, numeracy. That's really fundamental to children being able to achieve and stay at school,” says Wendy Field, our Head of Programs, Policy, and Strategy. “Also, digital inclusion, which we think is the next frontier of educational disadvantage.”
Our Five-year Strategy aims to ensure even more children in need can access our programs through to 2027.
“The way we implement [programs] is in the main, through our partner schools. And that picks up some of our students but it's really contingent on the school running the thing that that student needs in the year that it's available for that student.”
“So, we're increasingly looking at a couple of other things. Partnering with others who run programs and looking at how we can deliver more of our programs directly to students. So obviously, a good way to do that is through digital means. And again, that's contingent on our students being digitally included.”
Another key area of focus is the work of our Growing Careers Project.
“We're working with the Commonwealth government, at about 60 schools around the country to test a new way of an effective mix of elements of a good careers program.”
“The evidence is clear that if you can support those children and young people to understand what their options are, to have clearer alignment around their course of study and their career pathway and to understand what's involved in the world of work, then they're more likely to go on to be in employment and training.”
