School Business Community Partnership Brokers

Funding for School Business Community Partnership Brokers ended in December 2015. This page has been maintained as an ongoing resource to support information sharing and continued learning on how to effectively improve education outcomes for disadvantaged children and young people.

History

For the past five years The Smith Family has been a facilitating partner in the Australian Government's School Business Community Partnership Broker Program in six regions across Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. The aim of the program has been to improve education outcomes with a focus on supporting young people to remain engaged with education and make a successful transition beyond school.

The work of the Partnership Broker teams has resulted in some extraordinary partnerships across a wide range of sectors making a difference to the lives of young people in their communities. The work has engaged stakeholders across education and training, business, industry, government at all levels, the community sector, as well as some vital work with parents. More than 700 partnerships were brokered over the course of the program, and more than a forty percent of these are now entirely self-sustaining.

Funding for the Program ended on 31st December 2014 so this web page has been developed as a legacy and as a resource for staff and stakeholders to access so that the work can continue to make a difference for young people.

Watch the following videos at our YouTube to learn more about the Partnership Brokers and the outcomes of their work:

1. The Smith Family Partnership Brokers - Student Reflections
2. The Smith Family Partnership Brokers - Early Learning Initiatives
3. Partnership Brokers - Our Working Model.

Brisbane North and West, QLD

1. Able Care Health Industry Traineeships
2. AdSpace
3. Aspiring Towards Construction
4. Brisbane Youth Education and Training Centre (BYETC) Parents and Citizens Association
5. Environment Careers and Opportunities Expo (ECO Expo)
6. Exploring Careers in the Health Care Industry
7. Family Owned Schools Initiative (FOSI)
8. Health Sciences Industry Tour
9. Hospitality Industry Mentoring – Everton Park SHS and Rydges
10. Inala Refugee Homework Club
11. Inspiration to aspiration – careers in community service
12. Junior Secondary Schools Culinary Challenge JSSCC – Brisbane North
13. Laboratory and Biological Industry Skills (LABIS)
14. McDonald's Work Inspiration Program Video
15. McDonald's Work Inspiration
16. Milpera State High School Industry Education Program Video
17. Mulbeam Madness 2013
18. Project Moonlight
19. Sandgate Primary Transitions
20. Supporting Young People's 'Balance'
21. Teacher Resources for Graphics
22. Walk - Environ – Art Initiative
23. Yamaha Student Grand Prix and Work inspiration.

Brisbane South East and Redlands, QLD

1. Aspergers and Autism Collboration Table
2. Aspergers and Autism Collaboration Table video
3. Brisbane South Junior Secondary School Culinary Challenge Steering Group
4. Brisbane South Youth Interagency Network
5. Calamvale Birth to 4 Hub
6. Career Hunter
7. Cross Regional Hospitality Teachers and Trainers Industry Network (HTTiN)
8. Early Years partnerships Brisbane SE and Redlands video
9. Footprint to Your Future
10. Future Dreams Junior Career Day
11. Holland Park Reading Bug Egg
12. Industry Facts & Job Pathways 2012 (CD Resource) video
13. Lawyers In Schools
14. Manly West Birth to Prep Forum
15. Manly West Reading Bug
16. Microsoft Work Inspiration
17. Microsoft Work Inspiration program video
18. North Stradbroke Island Youth Forum
19. RedlandsYouth Crisis Accommodation and Support Reference Group
20. Wildstars
21. Work – inspiration
22. World of Work –  Holland Park
23. Worlds of Work
24. Yamaha Student Technicians Grand Prix
25. Youth Mental Health Collaboration Table.

Gold Coast, QLD

1. Gold Coast Careers Network
2. Benowa State School Science Partnership
3. Classic Holidays – youth Connections Work Inspiration
4. Creative Industries – Gold Coast
5. Engagement Flexible Learning & Social Inclusion – The Annex
6. Junior Secondary Schools Culinary Challenge
7. Ormeau Industry Initiative
8. Palm Beach Youth Music Venture
9. Stockland Work Inspiration
10. SWELL – Student Wellbeing and e–Learning Lounge
11. Write into Art.

Darling Downs, QLD

1. Bringing Employers and Schools Together – Southern Downs
2. Bringing Employers and Schools Together – Toowoomba
3. Careers in Action
4. Combined Schools Career Exploration Strategy
5. Dalby State High Creek Bed Program
6. Dalby Financial Literacy Partnership
7. DARE Student Mentoring Program
8. Deadly Diabetes Need for Feed Indigenous Program
9. Indigenous Toowoomba PaCE
10. Killarney Early Years Initiative
11. Killarney State School Youth Resilience Ambassadors Partnership
12. Millmerran Multicultural Migrant Initiative
13. Need for Feed Program – Southern Downs
14. Need for Feed Program – Toowoomba
15. P–10 Cluster Careers Strategy
16. Regional Response to Funding Cuts on the Southern Downs
17. Southern Downs Flexible Learning Hub – Educational and Training Reference Group
18. Southern Downs Youth Provider Networking Forum
19. TASCA – Toowoomba Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Sporting Complex Association
20. Tradeability Science and Engineering Strategy
21. Welcome To The World Of Work
22. Youth Reference Group – Regional QLD.

Illawarra, NSW

1. ANZ Young Entrepreneurs
2. City Farm Development Project
3. Demolition Derby
4. Equal Playing Field
5. Learning 4 Life
6. Schoolthefarm
7. Shoalhaven Student Pathways Pass
8. Shoalhaven Teacher Industry Tour
9. Ulladulla Community partnership.

Mandy Breese,
Community Development Manager, QLD

Ph: 07 3115 6232

Email: mandy.breese@thesmithfamily.com.au

Address: 38 Hope Street, South Brisbane QLD.