AMES Australia Youth Services works with young people from refugee, migrant and indigenous backgrounds to ensure they are equipped with everything they need to reach their potential and build a meaningful life in Australia.
Through a combination of specialist support services, education programs, knowledge sharing, career counselling, advocacy and social participation initiatives, we are working to remove the barriers young people face as they establish their lives in Australia.
We do this through a variety of activities such as industry visits to highlight career opportunities, education and training support, employment counselling, driving lessons, youth camps and other social activities to help young people build social groups, as well as programs to help young people develop the skills necessary to gain economic and social participation.
Our Programs
Engage!
Through the Engage! Program, we work with young people (aged 17-25) who are not participating in educational, vocational or employment related activities. The program helps define pathways into education, training and employment opportunities by providing activities such as Youth Camp, industry tours and re-engagement nights.
Reconnect
We deliver the Reconnect program through a number of Local Government Areas , which empowers young adults (aged 17-25) to overcome intrinsic barriers that prevent them from accessing education: English for Youth and employment through a holistic approach that is delivered one-on-one.
For further information on how you can refer young people into these programs, please make an enquiry.
This training is delivered with Victorian and Commonwealth Government funding
AMES Australia Youth Services empower young people from refugee, migrant and indigenous backgrounds to fulfil their potential within education, gaining assistance finding employment and increasing engagement through a broad range of social participation programs.
Reconnect
AMES Australia Reconnect is a voluntary holistic individualised, tailor-made program that supports and empowers young adults (aged 17-25) to access and engage with education and/or employment using trauma-informed, strengths-based youth centric approaches.
The program empowers young adults to overcome intrinsic barriers that prevent them from accessing education and employment via a person-centred, skill-appropriate academic curriculum that is delivered one-on-one or in small groups.
Reconnect program aims to address a lack of service provision for young adult from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and Indigenous Australian backgrounds currently not engaged in a mainstream education or vocational, employment setting across 11 Local Government Area’s (LGA) in Greater Dandenong, Flagstaff Melbourne, Maribyrnong, Wyndham, Brimbank, Hume, Dallas, Maroondah, Darebin, Stonington, Mooney Valley and 2 rural Victoria Hindmarsh and Mildura.
Engage!
The Engage! program works with young people aged 17 - 25 who are socially isolated and are not participating in educational, vocational or employment related activities. The program helps define pathways into education, training and employment opportunities. This is through a variety of activities such as industry visits to highlight career opportunities, youth camps to help young people build social groups, and D2E (Drive to Employment) to assist with attainment of P plates to increase employment opportunities
For further information on how you can refer young people into these program, please make an enquiry.
This training is delivered with Victorian and Commonwealth Government funding
