Seek support for programmes with good outcomes
Action 6: Seek support for programmes that have achieved good employment outcomes for our priority communities.
Encourage local councils to implement the Pathways to Employment internship programme for disabled people
Focus area: Maximise workforce
Timeframe: Year 1-3
He Ara Whai Mahi – Pathways to Employment is an MSD funded programme that gives young jobseekers a chance to work in a professional environment. Wellington City Council is a partner and has seen a 100% completion rate, with 73% post-programme employment success rate – 13 of which are currently employed at Wellington City Council.
Extend and expand existing internship programmes and cadetships for Māori, Pacific peoples, young people, former refugees and ethnic communities
Focus area: Skills development
Timeframe: Year 1-2
Work with sector stakeholder groups to explore the development of cadetships
Focus area: Skills development
Timeframe: Year 2-3
Promote models of successful collaboration between central government, councils, business, education and community to grow employment
Focus area: Build connections
Timeframe: Year 2-3
Advocate increased resourcing of community and/or Iwi-led strengths-based programmes that provide wraparound support to young people to achieve sustainable employment
Focus area: Supporting young people
Timeframe: Year 1
Seek to extend eligibility for “education to employment” programmes and make the programme available to young people in all parts of our region
Focus area: Supporting young people
Timeframe: Year 1
What ‘good’ looks like
The result of years of hard collective local effort, the Māoriland Tech Creative Hub (MATCH) in Ōtaki is transforming the lives of rangatahi and their whānau.
Developing programmes that build on and grow the potential of their learners, harnessing indigenous knowledge, MATCH provides industry endorsed qualifications that lead to work in the film, creative and information industries. But more than that, the work is building leadership and mana in the rangatahi that come through its doors, creating industry professionals who are proud to share learning and economic benefits with whānau.
Of the young people who have come through MATCH, many formerly classed as Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs), 80% have found employment.