Local Recovery Fund

The Local Recovery Fund is available in 51 Employment Regions (regions).

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The Local Recovery Fund supports locally driven activities that:

  • meet priorities identified in the region’s Local Jobs Plan
  • are tailored to the opportunities and needs identified in the region
  • address employment and training priorities; and
  • skill individuals to meet local employer demand.

Local Recovery Fund activities are usually sought via a Request for Proposal procurement process. If you are interested in developing a Local Recovery Fund proposal, contact your local Employment Facilitator.

To view current and past Local Recovery Fund activities, search the below table using relevant filters. For more information, contact your local Employment Facilitator.

TAS

The Service Industry Essentials Program

Karingal St Laurence
Employment Region:
Hobart and Southern Tasmania
Status:
Current
The activity will support participants with training barriers to develop skills for customer service roles and demonstrate their skills to potential employers. Participants will receive 9 days of practical retail and hospitality training tailored to literacy, numeracy and other barriers, delivered in shopping centres in the region.

Tourism and Hospitality Essentials Program (THE Program)

Work and Training Limited
Employment Region:
Hobart and Southern Tasmania
Status:
Current
The activity supports participants with training barriers to develop skills for hospitality and tourism roles and demonstrate their skills to potential employers. Participants will receive three weeks of practical skills development, accredited RSA training, job search techniques, resume writing and interview skills and a one-week Practical Workplace in hospitality basics.

Brumby Hill Northwest Regional Mobilisation Project

Brumby Hill Aboriginal Corporation
Employment Region:
North and North Western Tasmania
Status:
Completed
This activity provided intensive ‘wrap around’ support and pre-employment training to participants in the North West coast of Tasmania. The activity assisted participants to obtain work experience and placements with culturally safe workplaces including education and tailored post-placement support and input from their Employment Services Provider.

Care Industries Training to Employment Pathway

Community Care NESB Inc
Employment Region:
North and North Western Tasmania
Status:
Completed
Care Industries Training to Employment Pathways provided accredited and non-accredited training to facilitate employment in the home care sector as a personal care attendant or domestic service worker, and supported new employees through targeted training of host organisation staff to support participant placements (‘Care to Lead’).

Career Steps

Migrant Resource Centre (Southern Tasmania) Inc
Employment Region:
Hobart and Southern Tasmania
Status:
Completed
This activity was delivered to support long term unemployed, young people and women from refugee and migrant backgrounds in Southern Tasmania to engage in training, access employment pathways and support services, and gain employment.

Circular Head Dairy Pre-employment Program

The Trustee for The Salvation Army (Victoria) Property Trust
Employment Region:
North and North Western Tasmania
Status:
Completed
This activity was targeted at unemployed participants that combined employability and life skills with accredited, industry-based training to prepare and place them in jobs within the local dairy industry.

Crossroads Careers Starter Program

Derwent Valley Community House Inc
Employment Region:
Hobart and Southern Tasmania
Status:
Completed
The activity specifically addressed participant frustration, anxiety and depression related to the job search process. It delivered a class-based education program to empower participants to increase knowledge of employment opportunities and the job search process, build networks with local employers and how to use and promote their existing skills in the employment market. It included development of an individual plan to maintain their mental health during their job search and early stages of employment; and to broaden their networks and meet local employers with employment opportunities.

Disability Sector Sustainable Employment Project

National Disability Services Limited
Employment Region:
North and North Western Tasmania
Status:
Completed
This activity involved facilitating ongoing relationships and frameworks between jobactive providers and disability service providers to support the labour force needs of the disability service sector. This activity also aimed to increase awareness of, and access to, careers in the sector.

Education and Care Sector Good Fit Tool Project

Early Childhood Australia - Tasmania Branch Inc
Employment Region:
Hobart and Southern Tasmania
Status:
Completed
The activity created an Education and Care Sector Good Fit diagnostic tool to assist Employment Service Providers identify individuals receiving services from them who were likely to be a good fit for employment in the education and care sector.

Food Manufacturing Futures

Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Limited
Employment Region:
Hobart and Southern Tasmania
Status:
Completed
A pre-employment program that provided employability skills development specific to the food manufacturing sector. Participants had the opportunity to job shadow, standard operating procedure training, with suitable participants being offered employment following completion.

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