Transition to Success

Transition to Success (T2S) is an education, training and employment service that helps young people who:

• are aged 15–18 years old
• are in the youth justice system, or at risk of entering it
• want to participate in vocational training and gain the skills they need to change their lives and build a better future.

T2S is voluntary and is delivered over 10–16 weeks, bringing together government and non-government organisations to help young people lower their risk of offending by engaging in training, work experience, and by developing the skills required to gain and maintain employment, training, or further education.

Our Youth Justice staff collaborate with local businesses, councils, schools not-for-profit agencies, and registered training organisations to deliver a flexible and tailored service that equips young people to enter the workforce or further their education.

Participants can:

• get hands-on training
• learn real-world job skills
• gain nationally recognised certificates and qualifications
• develop personal and social skills
• build their knowledge, capacity, confidence and self-esteem
• meet and overcome life challenges
• access and retain employment or further training.

Participants increase their support networks and are linked directly with employers and education providers for long-term opportunities.

T2S can also help young people who have had difficulty with mainstream education, training or employment pathways because of issues relating to:

• past or current trauma, abuse or neglect
• ongoing complex family situations
• involvement with child safety
• literacy, numeracy or learning difficulties
• dependence on a negative peer group
• contact with the youth justice system
• mental health
• drug and alcohol use
• lack of stable accommodation
• behaviour leading to suspension or exclusion from school, or conflict with other students or teachers.

Tailored services and support

T2S is delivered differently around the state and is tailored to each community and its young people.

T2S focuses on 3 areas for the young people involved:

1. Job-related training to get them ready to enter the workforce, including
   • career counselling
   • job training
   • work experience job placements.
2. Social skills training to
   • provide guidelines
   • set behaviour goals
   • provide ongoing support as they learn new ways to interact with others
   • teach them how to manage their emotions when they feel vulnerable, exposed or challenged.
3. Behaviour management training to
   • guide their behaviour
   • challenge them to improve
   • encourage them to hold each other accountable.

We work with young people on:

• literacy
• numeracy
• skills for work and vocational pathways.

We help young people achieve nationally recognised qualifications in industries including:

• construction
• agriculture
• landscaping
• engineering
• hospitality
• business
• automotive vocational preparation
• farm machinery
• foundation skills (including literacy and numeracy).

T2S takes a holistic approach to supporting participants, delivering services that help young people develop their social and developmental wellbeing such as:

• aggression replacement and other self-regulation
• learner licences
• first aid
• white cards (construction safety)
• mental health
• drug and alcohol
• healthy relationships
• employment readiness
• social and behavioural goal setting.