Young people are being given the opportunity to learn new skills to help them transition back into the community thanks to a partnership between Youth Justice NSW and Training Services NSW, which is rolling out the \u2018Try a Trade\u2019 program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first \u2018Try a Trade\u2019 day was held at Cobham Youth Justice Centre in late 2022 with 10 workshops held across a range of trades including carpentry, painting, mechanical, landscaping, bricklaying, welding, barbering, plumbing, warehousing, and barista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile a second session ran at the Riverina Youth Justice Centre on 29 June with 5 businesses, all in different trades, visiting the boys to teach them a range of skills including plumbing, carpentry, painting, traffic control and mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the sessions, young people had the opportunity to try different trades and see what they enjoyed, as well as build real-life community connections and supportive links that will still be there once a young person leaves custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Try a Trade\u2019 days will be run across all 6 Youth Justice Centres around the state throughout the remainder of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Youth Justice NSW runs a number of skills and trades programs in Youth Justice Centres with several young people continuing their education and training upon release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Youth Justice, Jihad Dib said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhether it is gaining carpentry or painting skills and one day owning a construction business, or becoming a barista and managing a caf\u00e9, we are giving young people a chance to reach their full potential through the \u2018Try a Trade\u2019 program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe don\u2019t want to see anyone, no matter their age, spend time in a justice centre but where they do we want them to have the skills they need to start over upon their release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe program, while still early, is already yielding success with a young person who left Cobham Youth Justice Centre recently taking up a plumbing apprenticeship with a local plumbing company involved in the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is the type of inspiring story that shows the impact of \u2018Try a Trade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister for Skills, TAFE and Tertiary Education Tim Crakanthorp said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen someone leaves a justice centre we want to give them the best possible chance to seize opportunities and thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo matter their background, everyone deserves the chance to learn a skill and contribute to their community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young people are being given the opportunity to learn new skills to help them transition back into the community thanks to a partnership between Youth Justice NSW and Training Services NSW, which is rolling out the \u2018Try a Trade\u2019 program. The first \u2018Try a Trade\u2019 day was held at Cobham Youth Justice Centre in late … Continue reading “Young people in Youth Justice \u2018Try a Trade\u2019 for a day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21776,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775\/revisions\/21776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}