YouthInvest - School Business Community Partnership Brokers program
Objective
The Partnership Broker program objective is to facilitate stakeholder engagement, build community capacity and infrastructure and drive the Australian Government's education reform and social inclusion agendas to improve education and transition outcomes for all young people.
This will be achieved through a national network of Partnership Brokers that establish sustainable partnerships between and among four key stakeholder groups:
- Education and training providers
- Business and industry
- Parents and families
- Community groups
Partnership Brokers will foster a strategic, whole-of-community approach that supports young people’s learning and development.
About Partnership Brokers
In fostering a strategic, whole of community approach to improving education and transition outcomes for young people Partnership Brokers will:
- Facilitate the creation of strategic, sustainable partnerships between a range of stakeholders – schools, business and industry, parents and community groups.
- Not be funded for service delivery, but to achieve strategic partnering outcomes.
- Operate on a regional basis with stakeholders drawing on their knowledge of the region to develop strategies that address current and future skills needs and issues of the region
- Build the capacity of stakeholders to create and maintain partnerships themselves, thereby growing the outcomes of the program and reducing the dependence on the Broker role (4 year limited program).
Further information
Further information about this program can be obtained from the Federal Government's Youth Attainment and Transitions website.
Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland has also prepared a background document on this program. Download the background document now (PDF)
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