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 young people 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, training or work.
Aspirations
Mentors bring the world of work to life, sharing their own career experiences while helping young people recognise their strengths and understand different pathways beyond school. Along the way, students develop practical skills that prepare them to navigate further study and future work.
Dulili
Working with mentors over three years, First Nations students build confidence in their future and explore career pathways from Year 9 to Year 11. The program supports school engagement and pathways planning, while creating meaningful connections between students and the world of work.
Emerging Leaders
Leadership can take many forms. Guided by mentors, young people explore what effective leadership can look like, build confidence in their own potential and begin to recognise their capacity to lead in school, their communities and future workplaces.
Find Your Purpose
What makes a career feel right for you? Through conversations and activities with mentors, young people explore their interests, strengths and values, then learn how to use this self-knowledge to test career ideas and make more confident decisions about life beyond school.
Focus
Young women connect with female mentors who share candid insights from their own leadership and career journeys. Together, they explore personal strengths, different approaches to leadership and the value of learning from setbacks, helping participants recognise and develop their own leadership potential.
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
Across three fully facilitated sessions, students explore coding and artificial intelligence while working with mentors on hands-on STEM challenges. The program builds confidence in problem-solving and broadens students’ understanding of where STEM skills can lead.
Interact
For refugees and recently arrived immigrants, the Australian workplace can feel unfamiliar. Interact creates a welcoming space to practise English with business mentors, learn about Australian workplace culture and build the communication skills needed to explore future study and employment.
Interview 2 Impress
In this interactive, fully facilitated workshop, volunteer mentors work with students in small groups to share their experiences, practice interview techniques and provide constructive feedback.
Money Mastery
As young people 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 practical financial capability for life beyond school.
My Career Rules
Gives students the opportunity to explore specific industries and careers through conversations with professionals. Mentors share insights from their own career journeys, answer students’ questions and help them build a clearer picture of different roles and pathways.
Spark
A reading and literacy program for primary school students who would benefit from additional one-to-one support. Volunteer 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 people who work in the field. Students visit an ABCN member company to see the practical application of technology in the workplace and hear from tech professionals who share valuable insights from their own career journeys.
