Mind the Gen Gap April 23, 2009

Update from YACVic

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MIND THE GEN GAP
Working Together to Meet Workforce Challenges.
The Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (CS&HISC), the recognised national advisory body on the skill and workforce development requirements of these industries, invites you to challenge your perceptions, outlook and viewpoints by jumping over the generational gap and seeing life from a different platform to enhance reform challenges and workforce development!

• Does your organisation currently undertake any formal workforce development?
• Do you involve younger generational employees in this process?
• Does your organisation have problems with staff retention, especially Gen Y employees?
• Would your organisation benefit from harnessing your workforce and planning views to meet the current and future needs of your organisation?
Would your organisation benefit from knowing the answers to these questions from those who have been in your situation before and have developed the right outcomes for future progress? Then this event is ideal for your organisation.

The CS&H ISC is inviting managers and Gen Y employees in the Community Services and Health Industries to come together to explore workforce challenges we are facing with this generational mix and to create solutions to improve workforce planning.

Find out more
https://www.cshisc.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&Itemid=36&agid=36&year=2009&month=06&day=02

Source: Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council Ltd.

Rec Week March 13, 2009

Update YACVic

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RECONCILIATION WEEK 27 MAY – 3 JUNE 2009
Reconciliation Victoria have chosen their theme for Rec Week 2009: “Reconciliation: Turning Words into Action”. Rec Vic will again be producing its Rec Week calendar of events, which will be available online and distributed with the May 2009 Edition of the ListenUp! Newsletter.

Rec Vic encourages you to organise your own Rec Week Events in your community, school, business or organisation and for the first time this year Rec Vic is offering small grants of up to $500 to Local Reconciliation Groups for Rec Week Events. For more information about the grants program, conditions and how to apply please contact Doug McMillan on 9662 1645 or doug.mcmillan@reconciliationvic.org.au

Source: Reconciliation Victoria

World’s longest lunch March 13, 2009

Update from YACVic

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World’s Longest Lunch Takes a New Direction to Help the Homeless.
A very special lunch for the homeless will be held for the first time as part of the 2009 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, when the Festival joins forces with HEAT (Hospitality Employment and Training) to present the Homeless World’s Longest Lunch on Friday 13 March.

Held on the lawn at The St Kilda Town Hall, the lunch will take place simultaneously with the Festival’s 23 other World’s Longest Lunch events. Tickets for the Homeless World’s Longest Lunch are purchased by way of an $80 donation – with all funds going directly to HEAT projects – to buy a homeless member of the community, or someone at risk of homelessness, a seat.

Guests will enjoy a three-course lunch, including a delicious main course – Spezzatino di Manzo alla Toscana (Beef Casserole) – prepared by top Melbourne chef and HEAT patron Guy Grossi..”
Serving guests at the lunch will be participants of the HEAT program, which offers free twelve week hospitality training courses to young people (specifically, 16 – 20 year olds) who are unemployed or disengaged from mainstream education, many of whom are experiencing personal or family problems.

The day’s entertainment will be provided by local singer-songwriter Heidi Everett, a member of the Music Network for Mental Health and who appeared on Andrew Denton’s documentary on mental health, Angels and Demons, and high-energy rock group BiPolar Bears, part of City of Port Phillip Access Arts program, which creates opportunities for people living with mental illness.

HEAT is administered by St. Kilda Youth Service in collaboration with local business and community groups – and is targeted at addressing youth unemployment in the municipality of Port Phillip and Melbourne. Now in its thirteenth program, HEAT has a 75 percent graduation success rate, with all graduates going on to further training, education or employment.

The HEAT program is entirely funded by philanthropic money via ANZ Trustees, through donations from the community and support from the City of Port Phillip and William Angliss Institute of TAFE. and Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is a proud supporter.

For more information contact: Vanessa Murnane, HEAT Coordinator on:
T: 03 9696 5340| M: 0423 403 588| E: Vanessa@skys.org.au

Source: SKYS

EARTH HOUR 2009 February 25, 2009

YACVic Update
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EARTH HOUR 2009
8:30 – 9:30pm, Saturday 28 March
Bold, simple and accessible, Earth Hour 2009 has one major aim: to show governments, individuals and businesses that it is possible to
take action on global warming. The world can no longer wait and the first step is as easy as turning off a light.

Created in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour began as a city’s way of showing its support for taking action on climate change. In 2008, more than 50 million people in 370 cities in 35 countries turned off their lights for Earth Hour.

In what will be the world’s largest community event, Earth Hour 2009 is set to involve one billion people around the globe, in more than 1,000 cities, turning off lights as a message to world leaders prior to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The message is clear – that we need a commitment to actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the benefit of the planet.

It is extremely important for young people to get involved in Earth
Hour. Young people are the ones who will have to deal with climate change in the future as a result of the decisions made today.

REGISTER NOW at www.earthhour.org

And don’t forget to turn out your lights not only for Earth Hour but
continue your energy saving measures beyond the 28th March!

Source: YouthGAS

Unity Foundation Fun Run February 17, 2009

Oxfam Victoria Update

Unity are doing some great work- check out their website for more.

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Unity Foundation Fun Run
This Sunday 22 February, Unity Foundation is holding their annual fun run to raise awareness of Indigenous Homelessness. Oxfam and Unity Foundation’s staff and supporters have been affected deeply by the Victorian bushfires and the Unity Foundation will also be raising funds for the Bushfire appeal.

The Registration Desk will be located on Linlithgow Avenue on Tom’s Block in the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. Starting time for the 4km entrants is 8:30am sharp and 9:10am for the brave 8km entrants! Feel free to hang around after your run as Unity will be hosting a Family Day with a BBQ lunch, entertainment and children’s activities.

For further information visit the Unity Foundation website or register online. Be sure to wear your Close the Gap t-shirt on the day!

http://www.unityfoundation.org.au/

Far to here February 17, 2009

Oxfam Victoria February news
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Far to here: Still images of moving stories on the road from Darfur to Australia

In this thought-provoking exhibition, photojournalist Kabir Dhanji documents the lives of Darfuri people who fled the conflict in Sudan, and Darfuri youth capture their day-to-day experiences in Australia on donated cameras. The result are images that span continents and generations – a visual journey from war to peace, turmoil to stability, old to young and far to here.

Times and dates:
Melbourne, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, 45 Flinders Lane, Feb 11-21, 2009

http://www.fartohere.com/