Our programs
Our program portfolio continues to be refined to ensure it remains relevant to the evolving needs of students, schools and employers.
Accelerate
Our flagship scholarship program for high-potential students facing significant barriers to opportunity provides a dedicated mentor and financial assistance for three years. This sustained support helps scholars navigate senior school and their transition into further education or training.
Aspirations
Through sharing their career experiences, mentors bring the world of work to life for students, increasing their awareness of the career pathways beyond school. Along the way, students understand the enterprise skills they need to transition from school into the workforce.
Dulili
Over two years, First Nations students build confidence in their future and explore career pathways. The program supports school engagement and pathways planning, while creating meaningful connections between students and the world of work. Available in NSW, QLD and WA.
Emerging Leaders
Leadership can take many forms. Guided by mentors, students explore what leadership means and understand the skills needed to become capable leaders, helping them feel more prepared to take on leadership roles at school, their communities and future workplaces.
Find Your Purpose
What makes a career feel right for you? Through conversations and activities with mentors, students work to better understand themselves, their values and strengths. They use this knowledge to test their career ideas and help make more informed career decisions.
Focus
Female students connect with female mentors who share candid insights from their own leadership and career journeys. By exploring different approaches to leadership and the value of learning from setbacks, students develop leadership skills and reflect on how they can develop as leaders.
Future Thinkers
A real-world challenge becomes the starting point for an energetic design-thinking workshop. Working in teams with mentors, young people develop creative solutions, test their ideas and practise the problem-solving and communication skills used every day across modern workplaces.
Goals
Working with a mentor, students explore what matters to them, set meaningful goals and build confidence in their ability to achieve them. The program encourages students to think ahead, stay engaged with education and see more possibilities for their future.
Innovate
Working with mentors on hands-on STEM challenges, students build confidence in solving real-world problems and discover how STEM subjects connect to a range of future careers. The program helps students see how they can apply their learning beyond school.
Interact
The Australian workplace can feel unfamiliar to recently arrived migrants and refugees. Interact creates a welcoming space for these students to practise English with mentors and develop the practical skills they need to participate confidently in working life.
Interview 2 Impress
Mentors share their experiences and guide students through role-playing activities to practise interview techniques. With constructive feedback, students develop the confidence they need to present themselves effectively and make a positive first impression with employers.
Money Mastery
As students start earning and managing their own money, many don’t yet have the knowledge or confidence to make informed financial decisions. Working with mentors, they explore workplace rights, budgeting, saving and investing, building essential financial capability skills.
My Career Rules
Students explore specific industries and careers through conversations with professionals. Mentors share their career experiences and answer questions about different roles and pathways. This program can be targeted to subject areas or post-school career interests.
Spark
A reading and literacy program for primary school students who would benefit from additional one-to-one support. Mentors help students build their reading and comprehension skills in an encouraging school environment, while fostering their confidence and enjoyment of reading.
Tech Careers Expo
Technology careers become tangible through hands-on workplace experiences and conversations with mentors. Students visit an ABCN member company to see technology in practice and hear from tech professionals who share insights from their own career journeys.
